Vita Soul Wilmering

(un)scripted began with the making of a short fiction film and transformed into a complicated reality show with a plot twist. The result is a tragicomic spectacle of contrasting expectations in which the artist and her opponent explore intimacy and commitment within a staged love affair. The scenes and conversations, shot in a living space on a ship, try to grasp the layered range of experienced emotions, vulnerability, desire and trust, sometimes painfully balancing between reality and fiction. Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn, Prospects, ArtRotterdam

(un)scripted began with the making of a short fiction film and transformed into a complicated reality show with a plot twist. The result is a tragicomic spectacle of contrasting expectations in which the artist and her opponent explore intimacy and commitment within a staged love affair. The scenes and conversations, shot in a living space on a ship, try to grasp the layered range of experienced emotions, vulnerability, desire and trust, sometimes painfully balancing between reality and fiction.

An open air cinema on the dried-up bottom of an artificial lake in Bosnia and Herzegovina opens a window to a silent past, in which a fisherman shares his personal reflections on found footage images shot by tourists traveling to the former Yugoslavia.

An open air cinema on the dried-up bottom of an artificial lake in Bosnia and Herzegovina opens a window to a silent past, in which a fisherman shares his personal reflections on found footage images shot by tourists traveling to the former Yugoslavia.

Dialogue between a man and the pain, the fear and the loneliness.

Dialogue between a man and the pain, the fear and the loneliness.

Dialogue between a man and the pain, the fear and the loneliness.

'Spiegl' is a film about the story of a Jewish man who fled Czecho-Slovakia in 1988 in his early twenties and stayed in Austria as a refugee, still living as a woman at the time. In a collage road movie of documentary scenes, reenactments and opera, we get closer to the man's story and the friendship between him and the filmmaker. Encounters with people on the streets mirror or contradict the man's stories and reenactments in a studio evoke reflection on his personal history, partly embodied by the role of a female soprano, translating these stories into music. The borders between reality, memory and fiction get blurred, embedded in major historical shifts, contradictions and tensions in a rapidly changing Europe.

'Spiegl' is a film about the story of a Jewish man who fled Czecho-Slovakia in 1988 in his early twenties and stayed in Austria as a refugee, still living as a woman at the time. In a collage road movie of documentary scenes, reenactments and opera, we get closer to the man's story and the friendship between him and the filmmaker. Encounters with people on the streets mirror or contradict the man's stories and reenactments in a studio evoke reflection on his personal history, partly embodied by the role of a female soprano, translating these stories into music. The borders between reality, memory and fiction get blurred, embedded in major historical shifts, contradictions and tensions in a rapidly changing Europe.

'Spiegl' is a film about the story of a Jewish man who fled Czecho-Slovakia in 1988 in his early twenties and stayed in Austria as a refugee, still living as a woman at the time. In a collage road movie of documentary scenes, reenactments and opera, we get closer to the man's story and the friendship between him and the filmmaker. Encounters with people on the streets mirror or contradict the man's stories and reenactments in a studio evoke reflection on his personal history, partly embodied by the role of a female soprano, translating these stories into music. The borders between reality, memory and fiction get blurred, embedded in major historical shifts, contradictions and tensions in a rapidly changing Europe. Photo: Gert Jan Van Rooij, Offspring, De Ateliers Amsterdam

'The Failed Holiday - Episode 10' is an intimate family portrait in which the camera, used alternately by two daughters, mother and father, becomes an independent witness to circumstances and changes in their family home. The film starts during the lockdown, where time comes to a standstill and neighbours along with construction workers are the only people in the filmmaker's immediate vicinity. Isolated in her apartment, she starts digging through her archive of home videos and short fiction films that she and her sister made together in their early teenage years. Film appears to be a common thread through their lives from the beginning. It seems to be what kept things somehow together when the family fell apart and stories were a welcome escape for the sisters.

'The Failed Holiday - Episode 10' is an intimate family portrait in which the camera, used alternately by two daughters, mother and father, becomes an independent witness to circumstances and changes in their family home.

'The Failed Holiday - Episode 10' is an intimate family portrait in which the camera, used alternately by two daughters, mother and father, becomes an independent witness to circumstances and changes in their family home.

From August 2015 until September 2018, I lived at 115, Gebroeders Vandeveldestraat, Ghent, Belgium. I shared the kitchen, bathroom, toilet and hallways of the old and noisy house with seven housemates. One of them had a room in the attic and was unknown to me and all my other housemates. In the summer of 2018, we received a mysterious letter that encouraged a search about the life of our unknown housemate and so the tragic story came to the surface.

From August 2015 until September 2018, I lived at 115, Gebroeders Vandeveldestraat, Ghent, Belgium. I shared the kitchen, bathroom, toilet and hallways of the old and noisy house with seven housemates. One of them had a room in the attic and was unknown to me and all my other housemates. In the summer of 2018, we received a mysterious letter that encouraged a search about the life of our unknown housemate and so the tragic story came to the surface.

From August 2015 until September 2018, I lived at 115, Gebroeders Vandeveldestraat, Ghent, Belgium. I shared the kitchen, bathroom, toilet and hallways of the old and noisy house with seven housemates. One of them had a room in the attic and was unknown to me and all my other housemates. In the summer of 2018, we received a mysterious letter that encouraged a search about the life of our unknown housemate and so the tragic story came to the surface.

Two stories under reconstruction; through different media, the filmmaker searches for her own visual language to re-shape romanticised recollections from her family memory.

Two stories under reconstruction; through different media, the filmmaker searches for her own visual language to re-shape romanticised recollections from her family memory.

An intimate portrait of a Jewish man and the filmmaker herself. Through their shared love for Jewish music, they create a playful world where they spend much time together and talk about subjects that were concealed for a long time.

An intimate portrait of a Jewish man and the filmmaker herself. Through their shared love for Jewish music, they create a playful world where they spend much time together and talk about subjects that were concealed for a long time.

An intimate portrait of a Jewish man and the filmmaker herself. Through their shared love for Jewish music, they create a playful world where they spend much time together and talk about subjects that were concealed for a long time.