Persijn Broersen
Persijn BROERSEN and Margit Lukács are an Amsterdam-based artist duo whose work examines the relationship between nature, culture, and technology. The two artists graduated in Graphic Design from the Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, completed an MFA at the Sandberg Institute and were artists at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Broersen and Lukács explore the connections between the histories of the relationship between culture and nature in their work, rooted in their interest in media, music and technology. They interweave this with the politics of representing and appropriating nature, drawn from mythological, (art-)historical, scientific and cinematic sources. Their work consists of films, installations and performances in which the mythologies and origins of actual and fictional natural phenomena are unravelled and retold from multiple perspectives. In 2016, their short film Establishing Eden was selected for IFFR’s Tiger Short Competition. Their work has been exhibited in renowned institutions and organisations worldwide, including Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Centre Pompidou, Cultural Capital City of Europe Esch and the Biennale of Sydney. They represented the Netherlands at the Gwangju Biennale 2024 in Korea.
Filmography
(selection) (all co-dir.) Mastering Bambi (2010, short doc), Beyond Sunset and Sunrise (2014, short), Establishing Eden (2016, short doc), Forest on Location (2018, short), All or Nothing at All (2019, short), Fix the Variable, Exclude the Accidental, Eliminate the Impure, Unravel the Tangled, Discover the Unknown (2022, instal), I Wan’na Be Like You (2024, short)
More info: pmpmpm.com
Persijn Broersen op IFFR
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I Wan’na Be Like You
Margit Lukács, Persijn Broersen | 13' | Netherlands | World premiere (festival)
A decolonial reinterpretation of The Jungle Book, its famous song, and their contemporary legacies. -
Manifest Destiny
Margit Lukács, Persijn Broersen | 18' | Netherlands | None
A road-movie-scifi-documentary about a journey through an imaginary cosmos. Or just a dream? -
Manifest Destiny
Margit Lukács, Persijn Broersen | Netherlands | -
Silk-screened over an existing photograph, these pictures suggest a barren desert where some of the Mars mobiles have been tested. A study of close-up -
Beyond Sunset and Sunrise
Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukács | 27' | Netherlands | World premiere
A film mosaic combining scenes from classic movies with documentary takes of a cast and their aspirations. Auditions and shoots all take place in Holl -
Forest on Location
Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukács | 12' | Germany | World premiere (festival)
A virtual replica of Białowieża primeval forest. Iranian singer Yazdani performs his remake of Nature Boy, a song that originated there. -
Establishing Eden
Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukács | 10' | Netherlands | World premiere
Broersen & Lukács recreated the landscapes of New Zealand as confiscated by the entertainment industry to establish it as a new Land of Eden. -
Everytime
Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukács | 4' | Netherlands | None
With a reinterpretation of a pop song released in 2004 by Britney Spears, this video demonstrates how reality and (mass) media today are strongly inte -
Mastering Bambi
Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukács | 13' | Netherlands | World premiere
Beautiful interpretation of the Disney classic. Broersen & Lukács guide you through Bambi’s moods, but without the narrative or the characters.