The Sea, The Sea
2K, docu-fiction, 2024, 20′

When we go down to the low tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself – The primeval meeting place of the elements of water and earth, a place of compromise and conflict and eternal change. – Rachel Carson, Marine Biologist

At the East-Coast of England, 13-year old students from Withernsea High School learn about their changing landscape. A woman is looking for a piece of land. Clay cliffs crumble away in the sea and roads slowly disappear at the fastest eroding coastline of Europe. The sea is always present.

Where are you when you’re not here?
Hi8 tapes and HD, colour, 4:3, Dutch spoken, BE, 2023, 13′

He speaks of a large fossilized tree trunk. Sucked out of the sea by a dredging vessel. I listen and realize I never heard stories about his ship before.
He is retired. We never got beyond little anecdotes about the tiring journey, the palm tree islands or vast fields. He didn’t talk about it and I forgot to ask about it.

A portrait of a father and a daughter.

And All That is Lit (Unfinished)
HD, colour, 4:3, Dutch, French, English, Arabic spoken, BE, 2023, 14,47’

The light flashes of the lighthouse in Ostend shine 360° round and give a look on the surrounding lives.

The sea is in constant movement, the old neighbourhood shifts. The lighthouse tower is solid and still. Space disappears and transforms. The light shines from sundown to sunset. Three flashes and ten seconds of silence, always repeating.

Don’t say goodbye
HD Colour, 16:9, Dutch spoken, BE, 2022, 12,17′

A portait of a fishing neighbourhood in Ostend right under the lighthouse.

Wanderer
HD, 4:3, colour, BE, 2021

A young woman makes preparations for a change in her life.

Supernova
HD, 16:9, colour, BE, 2020, 3,40′

Two women meet in a cinema and lose themselves in each other and
in the night.