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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Marieke van der Lippe

Marieke van der LIPPE (1965, Netherlands) studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Since her graduation in 1992, she has been making video installations, artistic documentaries, video projections and performances. Van der Lippe focuses on the relationship between personal, social and political environments. Her visual work has been shown at Stedelijk, Macba and Art in General, among other places. The basis of her work is an interest in others, different backgrounds and perspectives. She is a regular guest at IFFR.

Filmography

Ni drama ni tragedia (1994, doc), Souvenir de Frans, Blind Date (1996, short doc), Let Love Rule (1997, short), How to Heal a Broken Heart (1998, short doc), Vlaardingen 1998 (1998, short doc), Rapunzel (1999, instal), Maria (1999, instal), Salt (2000, instal), Questions and Answers (2000, short), Standplaats Volmarijnstraat / Habitat Volmarijnstraat (2001, short doc), The Gil & Moti Wedding Project (2001, short doc), Thuishaven, een requiem / Homeport a Requiem (2002, short doc), Nee, ik ben geen filmster / No I Am Not a Filmstar (2002, instal), If You Are a Stranger (2003, short), Ajeno de si (2004, instal), Ser todo oido y ojos (2004, instal), Zoonlief / Mother’s boy (2004, short doc), One Way Ticket (2005, short), Idle Idol (2005, instal), Marc Bijl/Dark (2006, short doc), New (2007, short), Saut Samt (2008, short co-dir), Hanewaken (2008, instal), Theatre as Method (2009, short doc), Cascade (2010, short doc), Bleekneuzen / Pale Prospects (2011, short doc), Secret Gardens (2012, short doc), Tryptic MYSTICISM-ACTIVISM Pauluskerk (2014, instal), It Is Never Too Late to Say Sorry (2015, short doc), Mystic Resistance (2016, instal), The Missing Link (2018, instal), Refuge in Rotterdam (2019, short), The Machine (2020, short), If Paradise Is Half As Nice (2021, short)

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Marieke van der Lippe at IFFR

  • If Paradise Is Half As Nice

    What happens when you bring a group of artists together on an abandoned industrial estate?

    • RTM
  • If Paradise Is Half As Nice

    Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET



    • RTM
  • Musaic

    Refined Rotterdam urban collage, made with the eyes and above all the ears of a Syrian inhabitant.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes
  • Questions and Answers

    Ode to the casual nature and directness of youth in an original film form.

  • One Way Ticket

    One way ticket is a semi-documentary portrait of a Binnenweg (a street in the heart? of Rotterdam) passenger. In a hasty change of standpoints and a r

    • Rotterdam Perspective
  • The Machine

    Goethe’s poem Wanderer’s Nightsong is systematically analysed. Poetry is, however, more powerful than any analysis or restructuring.

    • Bright Future Short
  • It Is Never Too Late to Say Sorry

    Ode to artwork on the Coolsingel in Rotterdam that, for three years, was awakened at midday every day. Will the world premiere of the film herald the

    • As Long As It Takes: Short
  • Souvenir de Frans, Blind Date

    In Souvenir de France, Marieke van der Lippe reports on a Blind Date: a car ride through France with a potato grower.

    • exploding cinema
  • Zoonlief

    Documentary portrait of mother and son in the beach.

    • Rotterdam Perspective
  • How to Heal a Broken Heart

    The most unashamed cineaste at Rotterdam about losing and rediscovering love.

    • main programme short