In Hunza, women...

wendiertje — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 05:09:08 GMT

Traveling is for me the best way to develop my empathy for the world. Reading stories, watching films... are also great tools to go under the skin of other people. I believe in a world with a lot of empathy: a world with a lot of diversity, but no division between East and West, North and South, nature and culture, man and woman...
I want to use media -texts, videos, photographs- as a tool to make people more critical and to think for themselves. I do not want to tell stories that enhance stereotypes, or are part of the single stories that are the only told stories about persons, countries, cultures... but I want to show other sides of the prism, that makes us smile, makes us think...

I believe that easy language and a sense for humor can help to connect a great audience with these videos which don't have really a message, but more a feeling, a spark that starts some thinking...

I work now as intern for Johan Grimonprez, a Belgian film maker and video-artist, who is finishing his documentary for Sundance about capitalism and weapon trade, called Shadow World. Before I worked as post production assistant for Belgian national television.

Winning would be the beginning of a new learning adventure., where I can learn how to connect images with a story. When traveling I love to take the camera to capture the world, but still find myself frustrated in the editing trying to find a story. Although I have seen more than countries double my age (25), I haven't been in Mexico.

A 'place' I have visited

wendiertje — Fri, 5 Jul 2013 08:17:46 GMT

Wendy is the name my parents gave me more than 24 years ago. I love these name more, when I realized how much I have in common with the character for who this name is created by J.M. Barrie, the inventor of Peter Pan and Neverland. Wendy Darling is a young woman, with a big sense of adventure, but also someone who cares about others.

Since I am 16 years old, I travel (sometimes on my own) in whole the world. I also studied different things, because I am so curious; I've a degree in geography, economics and film.

What I look in an image or film, are the different colors of a prism than what the media shows us.

In a shot I will not only look for the unique, the distinctive aspect, but want to find a story that says “we” -and not "I and the other"- have the same troubles, tears, love, desires...
Visuals are rather than text so powerful tool, because we live in the new world where people watch more youtube videos and share instagram pictures. I want to explore photography more to tell and inspire. It looks a nice way of living: to find connecting images.

At the moment I am graduated and live with my granny in Belgian countryside, and do some voluntary video projects.

A different World

In Hunza, women...

A 'place' I have visited