Love-22-Love

The intimate documentary Love-22-Love by filmmaker Jeroen Kooijmans is an ode to love, art, and darkness. For Kooijmans, making art is his justification for existence, but it sometimes leads him to deep despair. The images in which he films himself while becoming ensnared in a psychosis are incredibly raw. 

He reconstructs the period leading up to this moment and the long journey that followed, entirely based on personal archive material from himself and his beloved. Love-22-Love is above all a love letter to his wife, artist Elspeth Diederix, his anchor in life and the light at the end of his tunnel. 

The film shows how love, art, and the dark corners of the psyche come together, with space for doubt, struggle, and ultimately insight. After 33 years, the period the film covers, an answer unfolds to the question of how love and art can sustain and heal a life. 

Introduction and discussion in collaboration with AKI (NB: in English!) 
On Tuesday, November 3, Jeroen Kooijmans will be present. He will give an introduction about his work at 19:15. This introduction is free of charge with the booking. 

After the film, there will be a Q&A with Jeroen led by Giovanni Giaretta, lecturer in the history of moving image at AKI ArtEZ Academy of Art and Design, and also a filmmaker and visual artist himself.