NetherLENS | Shorts

In video artwork MICRO|MACRO, Studio Beerdier gives an impression of a child’s cancer treatment. The starting point for this animated film is the resilience of  children: in general, children can undergo more intensive treatments than adults, because their bodies have a better ability to recover. This “superpower” is often underexposed in childhood cancer coverage.

COBALT is a 6 min. experimental dance film exploring and imagining future nature-technology-human ways of relating. The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a philosophy of technology researcher, an AI researcher and dancer, and a cinematographer, culminating in a non-verbal philosophical essay.

A new father visits the hometown of his mother in 1976, accompanied by his wife and baby. At the same time, the NASA Viking lander is sending the first images back to Earth from the surface of another planet. An experimental documentary about our relationship to the past.

A young biochemist who just arrived in a small town of The Netherlands, is building an artificial cell to understand the origins of life. Through his diary and microscope footage, he keeps track of changes in his new life, spent between the lab, his friends and his love for Simone.

Beneath our feet lies a mystery. A complex underground network of fungi keeps our ecosystem alive by exchanging nutrients and carbon with plants and trees. Remarkably, no one quite knows how these advanced and age-old systems operate, and how they are affected by climate change.

Together with painter and prosthetist Julios, ocularist Jelmer makes eye prostheses through modeling, scanning and craft painting. While ocularist Jelmer and painter Julios focus with delicate attention on the smallest details during the creation process of an eye prothesis, we see the first unveiling of the proud owners. A detailed look into loving craftsmanship and generosity.

On his quest to map the consequences of climate change, mountain hydrologist Walter Immerzeel and his team venture to heights where other scientists do not go. From his tent base in the Himalayas, he monitors over 200 instruments measuring variables like snowfall, temperature, air pressure, solar irradiance, windspeed and more. These data must be extremely accurate in order to reliably predict changes in the region’s water cycle – which is of crucial importance for the millions of people who live in the climate-sensitive areas downstream. In Moving Mountains, filmmaker and mountaineer Renko Douze follows Immerzeel on one of his mountain expeditions.