The short film I directed over the past 6 months has premiered today.

Summarizing the film’s premise:
“In a Forest takes the viewer in an unexpected transformation from one reality to the next.”

That’s true.
In a forest screens as the opening film for The last airbender in 70 cinemas in The Netherlands.
It’s distributed as a 2K digital cinema file which looks so pristine it feels like the film is beamed directly into your visual cortex.

For festival screening dates, keep an eye on this site.

You get a completely unique work custom made for you, conveniently delivered to you on 2 pages by fax.
The first page is a cover sheet with either an apology, excuse or thank you note – depending on my mood mostly.
The second page is a custom made description of a rather good and interesting artwork.

The example below was featured in the Misprints exhibition recently.

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This link will take you to the gallery page, click on my name and then one of the two pages to order your custom edition. I’ve agreed to do up to 50 of these. Get them while I last.

2 am on a saturday night: Bram Meindersma in the bushes with a candle and my jogging shoe.

Another university programme called Stilvorlagen has students organizing guest lectures. I had the shock of my life when I walked into the school lobby to find this huge installation of my name.

(above) Honey, I’m home.

Here’s another picture.

Ok, frankly they warned me in advance that there was going to be a display, but this… these are three-dimensional letters floating in space with lights and reflection..In reality, like you can touch it! I love it.
The group who worked on that explained that they took some inspiration from my stereoscopic pictoplasma leader.

When there are more pictures of the workshop online, I’ll put up a link.

This is not exactly what that looks like.

The opener for the 2010 Pictoplasma Festival.
Sound by Bram Meindersma. Picture by Fons Schiedon

The version above is viewable with good old red-cyan anaglyph glasses. Providing both an illusion of depth, as well as the sort of retina splitting err-what-the-hell-am-I-looking-at kind of effect I was aiming for. It’s all about beauty and pain, isn’t it.

But, people have preferences, so if you’re more into amber-blue, pink-green or fancy IiNnTtEeRrLaCcEeDd viewing modes, you might want to check out the video on Youtube, where you can choose these modes from the drop down menu (pictured below).

fig 1 – a “drop down menu“

The good people at Pictoplasma commissioned me for this year’s festival opening titles and visuals. An honour and a pleasure. In fact so much, I will refrain from making the horrible pun stringing together the festival name and the word StereoScoPIC.
Above is the first image, more coming soon.
Obligatory iconography: and reference (cool rating: ********/5).

The festival takes place April 9 and 10 in Berlin. For those of you considering to go, there’s a very attractive early bird offer active now. Speakers include Fluorescent Hill and Peter de Sève (Ice Age, Finding Nemo).