Here’s a thing I know now: you can move your legs as fast as they’ll go and still be exactly where you started. I found this out on a bicycle, in the wind, with my whole body saying go and the air saying no, actually, stay.
People kept passing me. They had suitcases. They had flights to catch. They looked so sure of themselves, like the ground was doing them a favor by moving under their feet. I just kept pedaling, going nowhere, feeling, I’ll be honest, a little ridiculous, and also a little bit like I was finally telling the truth about something.
Because isn’t that most of it? The trying part, not the arriving part? I don’t know. I was just a person on a bike, losing a fight with the sky, wondering if that counted as progress too.
Medium: Non-stop video performance
Screen size: 6.7 x 2.40 meters
Exhibited: 2025, for several months, Lounge 1, Schiphol Airport
I was trained as a photographer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie before completing an MA in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy, and the two disciplines have stayed intertwined ever since. I move between fiction, television, installations and commercials, based in Amsterdam.
Short films SPOETNIK (2015) and BOTANICA (2018) opened things up early on, with SPOETNIK selected for Generation 14plus at the Berlinale. For television I created MOONRIDERS, a children’s series about art nominated twice for a Cinekid Award, and my installations OBSTACLE COURSE 2.0 (2018) and DE DIJK (2025) have shown in public space, including at Schiphol Airport.
This year my feature debut TOUTES DIRECTIONS, produced by 100% Scripted, closes the Nederlands Film Festival and opens in Dutch cinemas on 1 October through Paradiso Filmed Entertainment. I’m also shooting the youth series METROPIA forthe VPRO with NL Film in 2027, and developing my second feature, THE ISLAND OF NOSE (Tom Tippelaar in the Netherlands), with Studio Ruba and screenwriter Saar Ponsioen.
Commercially, I work in the Netherlands and abroad, represented by 100% (NL), Simon und Paul (DE), Kaiserschnitt Film (AT) and Sanctuary (US). For fiction, I’m represented by Connie at Solidbase Management (NL).
