Exploring the Fantastical World of the De Nooijers

With an oeuvre that includes over 130 films, ranging from music videos, to commercials, short-fiction, feature-length animation hybrids and documentaries, as well as a number of installations and performances, Paul, Menno and Françoise de Nooijer have produced an audio-visual oeuvre unlike any other.

In this presentation we will screen three recent digital restorations of their early work, as part of a preservation pilot for research into best practices around the archiving of autonomous works made by artists. We will also show their latest film Is Heaven Blue? #2 which won the Off-Limits award at Annecy Festival and the George Manupelli Founder's Spirit Award at the Anne Arbor Film Festival.

Introduction by curator Simona Monizza.

The screening will be followed by the performance Living Screens, given by Paul and Menno de Nooijer, allowing rare insight into their idiosyncratic approach to making audio-visual work at the intersection of film, photography and visual art.