FREE WORK – Han Hoezen Filmmaker

We Are Strange

Han Hoezen — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:35:08 +0000

A playful but in the end dramatic sketch of humanity, seen ‘through the eyes’ of a new human, growing in the womb: what kind of world will I live in, what will be my part?
We Are Strange is a thought-provoking film, making us watch ourselves in a mirror. The film is composed of manipulated found footage, transformed into cinema.

Production: 2021/22

Credits
Director: Han Hoezen
Producer: Han Hoezen
Editor: Han Hoezen
Visual effects: Han Hoezen
Sound Design: Han Hoezen.

Music:
Dee Yan Kee
Kamikaze Deadboy
Kevin MacLeod
Plasterbrain

Torn

Han Hoezen — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:59:42 +0000

Awarded best dance film on Mediawave International Film Festival, Hungary.

Dance film, inspired by the dramatic separation of a Siamese twins.

Choreography by Jacqueline Bongers
Soundscape by Frits de Bruijn
Danced by Jacqueline Bongers and Mirjam Pelupessy

Directed, filmed, edited by Han Hoezen

Production October 2009

Produced by Stichting Wuivend Riet and F.L.M.B.L.D. produkties

… ‘Het niveau van de films was desalnietemin erg hoog en ik heb er 200 gezien. Er waren erg veel categorieën, w.o. ‘de dansfilm’ die vooral opvielen door een zeker artistiek soort vrijblijvendheid.

Jouw film sprong er godzijdank verre bovenuit en hoewel het aanprijzen van een film uit eigen land altijd wat ongemakkelijk aanvoelt, was de jury unaniem en er was geen enkel verschil van mening. Ik was zelfs trots: “kijk zo doen wij dat”. Het is een geweldig mooi en zorgvuldig gemaakte film waarbij de film de dans hielp en andersom.

Fragment of email by Jos Stelling, juror at Mediawave Filmfestival.

Genesis 2000

Charlotte Maas — Wed, 02 Feb 2000 16:11:53 +0000

Short feature film

A young man and woman are tired of modern life and decide to return to paradise. Naked and without ‘stuff’ they start a new life. But temptations are lurking…

Met: Jetty Smit en Nico Okkerse

Scenario, regie, productie en montage: Han Hoezen

Camera: Mark du Plessis

Geluid: Frits de Bruijn

Bibi

Charlotte Maas — Fri, 23 Apr 1993 09:26:00 +0000

Short feature film

Boy meets girl in café but gets nauseous and flees home…

De Kip en het Lam (The chicken and the lamb)

Han Hoezen — Sun, 23 Feb 1992 14:43:50 +0000

Mengen en roeren – Mixing

Experimental ‘cooking film’, made with fresh meat and aged film material (16mm). Broadcast by VPRO in 1992.

Camera, sound, editing and chef: Han Hoezen

Production year 1991
Length 8 minuten
Camera, sound, editing and chef Han Hoezen

Osmose (Osmosis)

Han Hoezen — Wed, 02 Feb 1983 15:45:49 +0000

Narrative short film

My very first film shown for public.
At the premiere (IFFR 1987), the public in the cinema became a part of the frame story in the film by placing two actors in front of the screen, making music and dancing strangely before the film started.
I instructed the actors to keep playing until they would be removed by security. When the film finally started the characters were back, now in the film, dancing and playing in front of a cinema and later, in a next layer in the film, in front of a church.
Osmose is a frame story with a cycling postman who delivers an obituary to a man, a sleeping sexton at home in his bed. In the church, the sexton shows the obituary to the organist. The latter plays a tango on the church organ. Then they turn out to be in a film, just like an audience that is watching the film in the cinema.

With a.o. Pavel Petrycski, Henk Koorn and Cor van Kuieren

Screenplay, direction, production and editing: Han Hoezen

Camera: Han Hoezen and Brigit Hillenius

Sound: Frits de Bruijn