Background

Critics' Choice VII – Space is the Moment

04 February 2021

Dana Linssen & Jan Pieter Ekker

Background

Critics' Choice VII – Space is the Moment

04 February 2021

Space is the Moment – A Video Essay on the Works of Leopold Emmen by Dana Linssen and Jan Pieter Ekker is inspired by the installations in the exhibition Vive le cinéma!

Guernsey, Nanouk Leopold, 2005

Boven is het stil, Nanouk Leopold, 2013

De thuiskomst, Leopold Emmen © Dim Balsem

Uit het leven van marionetten, Leopold Emmen © Henri Verhoef

Daan Emmen & Nanouk Leopold

Jan Pieter Ekker is the head of the art section of the Amsterdam based newspaper Het Parool. Besides he is co-curator of the Critics' Choice programme at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Dana Linssen is a film critic (de Filmkrant, NRC Handelsblad), writer, thinker, lecturer (ArtEZ Academy of Theatre, HKU Audio Visual Media/Writing for Performance) from the Netherlands. She is the founder of the Slow Criticism Project and with Jan Pieter Ekker co-curator of the Critics' Choice at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Currently she is working as a "quarter master" for FilmForward, a new talent and skills development institute in the Netherlands. According to her Twitter profile she is also a time traveller.

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