Holding Silence

Martijn van Veen Documentary, FilmLAB 2019Leave a Comment

Short Documentary | 14 min. Three individual artisans from Asian descent find how being highly focused on their crafts lures them into a sense of silence, which in turn invites each of them to go down a contemplative journey along their family history line. After a seemingly random phone call, martial arts teacher Kierty Verbooy connects with his long-lost Indian … Read More

The Bowl

Martijn van Veen Documentary, FilmLAB 2019Leave a Comment

Documentary Short | 10 Min. For Dutch-Indonesian artist Barbara, inspiration is everywhere. Her jam-packed studio is filled with creativity. Everything is meticulously placed and ordered, yet anything is possible.A deconstructed Wayang doll shares its parts with a drawing manikin. Naked bowls are waiting to be glazed with poetical or humorous drawings.Cycling against the wind, Barbara visits hergarden to pick some … Read More

Carve Out

Martijn van Veen Documentary, FilmLAB 2019Leave a Comment

Documentary Short | 12 Min. Food sculpting has a profound role in the history of Chinese cuisine. Recognised as an important art in its native land in The Netherlands a very different tale is sung. Once the crown jewel of every dish in Chinese restaurants, food sculptures are now slowly disappearing and the craft threatens to go extinct. Having put … Read More

Unicorn Cat

Martijn van Veen Documentary, FilmLAB 2019Leave a Comment

Short Documentary | 9 Min. The days are busy for 9-year-old Maitreyi,the daughter of Indian expats, born and raised in the suburbs of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.In the afternoons, she plays hockey, a popular sport among the Dutch, but does she fit in with the other girls? In the evenings, she rushes off to learn Bharatnatyam, a classical Indian dance form, … Read More

Love

Martijn van Veen Documentary, FilmLAB 2017Leave a Comment

Documentary Short | 13 Min. Enang is researching a family portrait taken in the former Dutch East Indies. His great-great-grand- mother is also shown on the photo, a woman from Aceh. His mother then tells him, this wasn’t the photograph they owned as a family. From the photo they owned his great-great-grandmother had been cut off. This sets off his … Read More

Untuk Selalu

Martijn van Veen Documentary, FilmLAB 2015Leave a Comment

Documentary Short | Antropology | 16 min. Untuk Selalu is a short documentary chronicling the ritualistic differences between the four groups of immigrants of Indonesian descent;the Moluccans, the Dutch-Indos, the Javanese Surinamese and the ethnic Indonesians. All this and more, as seen through the eyes of youngsters of the same generation.This project is a joint initiative with Ambar Surastri, Andre … Read More

Indië on a plate

Martijn van Veen Documentary, FilmLAB 2014Leave a Comment

Documentary Short | Cooking | 8 Min. An indo grandmother and her granddaughter are making Indonesian pies. By making the pies and talking with her grandmother, she finds out more about the country where her grandmother comes from – a country that no longer exists. Director: Amber Nefkens Screenings: CinemAsia Film Festival 2014 Tong Tong Fair 2014 Indo Film Café … Read More

Loving Work

Martijn van Veen Documentary, FilmLAB 2008Leave a Comment

Documentary Short | 14 Min. Juggling work, sex and love can become quite tricky when you are a couple working together in the fetish industry. Creating content for their respective websites leads to cameras in the bedroom and whips in the office. Director: Vivian Wenli Lin