SMART Project Space | 1e Constantijn Huygensstraat 20, Amsterdam, +31 (0)20=
427 5951
Tuesday July 1, 20.00 hrs. Smart Project Space presents:

FILMMAKERS PRESENT:
A series in which film- and video makers present their work

Tuesday 1st July, 20:00 h. | Jeroen Offerman and Jaap Pieters

Jeroen Offerman is a versatile artist creating works in media ranging as wi=
dely as installations, packaged plants, performances, a record, tattooed ca=
ctuses, computer works, flies in cages, birds on the central station in Am=
sterdam, and video works. Themes range from romantic nature through urban l=
andscape to pop-music and popular culture. Characteristic in all these work=
s is an interest in the staging of objects and events, as is the case in th=
e three video works Offerman will present here.

The Stairway at St.Paul's (2002/03, DV, 8.40 min.) For this video the artis=
t practiced three months in a row to learn to sing Led Zeppelins most famou=
s song Stairway to Heaven entirely backwards. This video is based on the hy=
steria that surrounded certain music-recordings of the 60's and the 70's, l=
ike the Beatles, Judas Priest and Led Zeppelin, that were supposed to have =
put hidden and evil messages in their records that could only be heard when=
played backwards.

The Great Escape (2000/01, DV, 10 min.) The Great Escape is an homage to th=
e Romantic paintings of Kaspar David Friedrich and sci-fi films like 'Close=
Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'the Day the Earth Stood Still' in which=
extra-terrestrials come to earth to save mankind from its own destruction.=
The work is conceived as a looped video installation

Jean & Jeroen: the Bed-In (2002/03, DV, 6 min.) On the video we see a coupl=
e lying in bed,

talking and smoking a cigarette together. Because the video doesn't contain=
sound the impression is raised that we are 'voyeurs', as if we glance thro=
ugh a window. At first sight we seem to watch an intimate and peaceful situ=
ation. But at second glance we get the impression something is not right an=
d feels very uncomfortable. The title of the work refers to the legendary '=
bed-in' performances for peace of John Lennon and Yoko Ono (in the Hilton H=
otel of Amsterdam, 1969).

Jaap Pieters is a filmmaker who confines himself to the material he uses: s=
uper 8 film reels

with a length of just over 3 minutes. In that short stretch of time he conc=
entrates on one single subject. This might be a man doing something unusual=
on the street, or the top of a gigantic hogweed, barely visible above a wa=
ll, swinging to and fro in the wind. In these films Pieters is interested i=
n the boundary between film and photography. To bring photographs to life a=
nd to almost enstill film images into photographs, so that the viewer will =
experience the field of tension between moving and still image and the exte=
nt to which the two are connected. His films are made with a minimal use of=
equipment and minimal manipulation.

Among other films will be shown:

Het Gewicht (a.k.a Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow & Blue) (1998, Super 8, 6 mi=
n. 10)
Willem I Willem II Willem III (1991, Super 8, 17 min. 12)
De kopjesdans (1993, Super 8, 3 min. 20)
Dansende Trap (1999, Super 8, 3 min. 20)
De Blikjesman (1991, Super 8, 3 min 20)
Passanten op Zondag (1995, Super 8, 3.20 min.)
Een Zwitsers Libel (2000, Super 8, 3 min. 20)
Radioman & De Kaarsenvrouw (1996, Super 8, 10 min.)

for further information please contact alice@smartprojectspace.net
Location: Smart Cinema
Price: 5.50 Euro

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