Katja Verheul
Katja VERHEUL (1988, Netherlands) is a researcher, visual artist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. She holds a Bachelor of Audio-Visual Arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and a Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University. While at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, she directed the short The Process (2014). In 2017, she collaborated with artist Jane Chan for her short film Where is the riot at? (2017). Toni and Bleri premiered at the 2019 Visions du Réel. Verheul directed Maiden (2019) during her residency at YARAT Contemporary Art Space in Baku, Azerbaijan. Her fifth short, Improvised Objects, had its world premiere at IFFR 2021. She was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie (2018–2019), a participant at VISIO – European Identities, New Geographies in Artist Film and Video (2018), FilmForward (2020–2021) and Rotterdam Writers’ Rooms (2024).
Filmography
(all short) The Process (2014), Where is the riot at? (2017), Hostile Sites − Part 2 (2017), Toni and Bleri (2019), Maiden (2019), Improvised Objects (2021), Trust (2022), Unknown Grounds (2024), Red Dust (2024)
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Katja Verheul at IFFR
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Improvised Objects
Katja Verheul | 9' | Netherlands | World premiere
In a world where billions are spent on state-of-the-art weaponry, the deadliest weapon is still a low-budget DIY device.
