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Tim Leyendekker

Tim LEYENDEKKER is an artist and filmmaker based in Rotterdam and Strasbourg. He received an MFA from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. His films contain palpable traces of their creation process, engaging the viewer to critically relate to the construction of the work itself. Leyendekker’s work has been shown both at film festivals and in art institutions with presentations at International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Power Plant (Toronto), MoMA (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and Berwick Media Arts Festival, among others. His first feature film Feast (2021) was nominated for a Tiger Award at IFFR 2021 and received several awards, including the Loridan-Ivens CNAP award at Cinéma du Reel (Paris). Leyendekker also works as a producer for other artists and as an independent film programmer, including a monthly programme at WORM (Rotterdam).

Filmography

(selection) How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us (2003, short), still (2006, short), Opening Night (2009, short), the Healers (2010, short), BLINDER (2015, short), Feast (2021)

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Tim Leyendekker op IFFR

  • Feast

    Tim Leyendekker | 84' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Plato, dildos, an injected tulip: reconstruction of a troubling case by idiosyncratic cinephile and talent from Rotterdam, Tim Leyendekker.
  • still

    Tim Leyendekker | 5' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Memories of the first date through a telephone dating line.
  • Opening Night

    Tim Leyendekker | 5' | Netherlands | World premiere

    And a voice said: ‘Hope appears in many forms, but tonight you’re on your own.’
  • Blinder

    Tim Leyendekker | 13' | Brazil | World premiere

    Dutch artist Tim Leyendekker’s fresh 16mm film gives us nouns, dry facts and retina-scouring light whilst resisting telling us what to do with these t
  • Lighthouse

    Wouter Venema | 18' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Light in all its forms plays a remarkable role in this film; it seems to influence the course of events.
  • the Healers

    Tim Leyendekker | 10' | Netherlands | World premiere

    The gay party scene presented in a triptych: the thrills of the night, the location, the date. With a surgeon’s ambition, director Leyendekker dissects a…