Er is een geest van mij

Er is een geest van mij / Hay un fantasma mío (There is a ghost of me) is a work-in-progress experimental film. The project is an attempt at mourning both personal and political futures that never arrived, organised around a broad interpretation of the trope of the ghost. We see depersonalised figures, urban ruins, consuming fires, and microscopic images of decaying bodily matter – set to a poem that shifts between Spanish and Dutch. Shot on a mix of digital video and 16mm film, the project combines new images I created at Sandberg Instituut with footage captured in Lima in 2019 and Washington DC/New York in 2016, in the wake of displacing fires and the election of Donald Trump, respectively. I showed a work-in-progress version of the film during my first end-of-semester assessments as a two-channel video installation.