Nick Thomas
Still: WeightlessNick THOMAS (1990, UK) is a visual artist, filmmaker and cultural organiser based in Rotterdam. He has worked with Maria Hryniuk since 2019, collaborating on films, as well as programming, leading workshops, and assisting in video and sound production for other artists and filmmakers. Hryniuk and Thomas are founding members of WET film, a Rotterdam-based film and video collective, and are members of Filmwerkplaats, an artist-run lab for 16mm film processing. Their film Forces (2020) is in the Eye Experimental collection. They have received fellowships from Nederlands Filmfonds, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam, Stichting Niemeijer and Mondriaan Fonds. Their film Centre for Creativity (2024) was selected for IFFR 2024.
Filmography
(selection) An Entrance is an Exit Too (2018, short), Forces (2020, short, co-dir), Noordzee/North Sea (2020, short, co-dir), The Close River (2020, short, co-dir), School Number One (2022, short, co-dir), Weightless (2023, co-dir), Centre for Creativity (2024, short, co-dir)
Nick Thomas at IFFR
Weightless
Self-taught ethnographer Khrystyna Bunii travels through south-western Ukraine, where she documents the culture of the Hutsuls.
73'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Centre for Creativity
A tribute to the unseen spaces of wartime Ukraine: survival, solidarity and creativity practices intermingle.
22'
Ukraine
IFFR 2024