Marleine van der Werf

artistic research - audiovisual - documentary - film - installation

Marleine van der Werf (1985, CH / NL) is a filmmaker / visual artist working from a documentary starting point and based in Rotterdam. Her artistic research focuses on how we can experience the world of others. With film and XR installations, Van der Werf creates haptic experiences to challenge the understanding of the other and the self. Recurring themes are consciousness, identity, embodiment and our subjective perception of reality.

She collaborates with renowned experts in neuroscience, the arts and humanities. Her award-winning films and installations have been shown on television & international art and film festivals such as IDFA (NL), Human Rights film festival Seoul (KR), FILE Festival in Sao Paolo (BR), Future of storytelling New York (US) and Art Basel ( CH). She won the NEXT Talent Award (20Playgrounds Digital Art Festival), ACT award (2019, STRP) and Sundance interdisciplinary grantee (2021). In 2023 she did the Emap artist in residency

  • Portfolio
  • Activities
  • Awarded
  • Contact

    • Disembodied

    Project

    • 01-10-2020 t/m 01-10-2021
    • In collaboration with: Submarine, The Panics, Kaboom festival, Solar World Cinema, Frodo Kuipers, AKV | St. Joost and Playgrounds, Art & Technology festival Strp, CBK Rotterdam, Stichting Niemeijer fund, Stimuleringsfonds, Basalt film
    • The “Living Dead” is an intimate experience based on true stories of people who feel that they don't exist. This multi-sensory installation uses wearables, sound, smell and virtual reality to immerse you in their story. In this journey we see a glimpse of how their brains may be the key to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness.
    • https://www.marleinevdwerf.com/living-dead

    all we are

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-11-2019 t/m 12-11-2020
    • In collaboration with: Imagine science film festival New York, Science sandbox, Cbk Rotterdam
    • Location: New York, New York
    • All we are' is a collaborative project between filmmaker Marleine van der Werf (NL/CH) who researches subjective character of experience & Scientist Julia Van Etten (USA) who studies how microorganisms like algae can survive in extreme conditions for a NASA-funded project . This short film was developed within the context of the international symbiosis competition and made in one week at the imagine science film festival in New York
    • https://www.labocine.com/spotlights/whats-emerged-from-the-symbiosis-competition-at-the-12th-annual-imagine-science-film-festival

    constructed reality

    Task

    The Prediction Machine

    Project

    • 26-03-2017 t/m 10-11-2017
    • In collaboration with: Invision, Radboud University
    • Location: Inscience film festival Nijmegen, Imagine science Abu Dhabi, Parisscience, Paris, nijmegen
    • The short documentary is a collaboration between filmmaker/artist Marleine van der Werf and Professor Floris de Lange who both research perception in their work. In this short film we see how De Lange researches how we make predictions about our visual perception and how this influences our experience of reality.
    • https://www.insciencefestival.nl/en/film/the-prediction-machine/

    Be Boy Be Girl

    Project

    • 01-10-2015 t/m 01-08-2016
    • In collaboration with: Mondriaan Fund, CBK Rotterdam
    • Location: Art Rotterdam (NL), Future of storytelling NY (USA) Art Basel (CH) FILE festival Sao Paolo, Rio de janeiro (B), Nouveau Cinema festival Montreal (C) Museum Schunck, (NL),
    • The multi-sensory installation Be boy be girl engages sight, hearing, touch and smell. Here, our bodies become more than just our eyes and ears; they become the vehicles with which we challenge reality. Be boy be girl is an immersive installation. With an extended body, the moment of disbelief that results from the experience is delayed for as long as possible. The installation was created by filmmakers Frederik Duerinck and Marleine van der Werf. With a keen feel for current events, Be boy
    • https://www.beboybegirl.com/

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • R&D contribution - CBK Rotterdam

    • 2019
      Scholarship

    • Young talent work contribution, Mondriaan Fund

    • 2015
      Scholarship

    • R&D contribution - CBK Rotterdam

    • 2016
      Scholarship

    • Immerse/Interact project subsidy - Stimulation Fund

    • 2019
      Scholarship

      Scholarship

      Pricing

    • Scientist award, abu dhabi

    • 2018
      Pricing

    • Next talent award

    • 2018
      Pricing

    • STRP Act Award

    • 2019
      Pricing

    • Best foreign documentary Copenhagen film festival

    • 2020
      Pricing

    • sundance interdisciplinary grantee

    • 2021
      Pricing

    • best short documentary, szinema, australia

    • 2023
      Pricing

      Collection

    • Eye film museum

    • 2011, Amsterdam
      Collection

    • van Gogh residency

    • 2018, Zundert
      Collection

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      Collection

    • erasmus university

    • 2019, Rotterdam
      Collection

    • Szabo collection

    • 2022, Berlin
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      Publication

    • rotterdam cannot explain its market hall in documentary

    • 2016
    • documentary review
    • https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2016/10/06/rotterdamse-markt-in-strakke-documentaire-4660654-a1525109 - hans beerekamp
      Publication

    • Science and film join forces

    • 2017
    • interview
    • https://www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/invision-wetenschap-en-film-slaan-handen-ineen - lara maarsen
      Publication

    • The Living Dead. A project to recreate what it feels like to suffer from Cotard's syndrome

    • 2019
    • interview
    • we make money not art - Reginy Debatey
      Publication

    • A common denominator is the artistic, cinematic way in which they are made. This makes the documentaries not only interesting, but also impressive.

    • 2023
    • science article about films
    • new scientist -
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