Artist Statement
I stuttered heavily as a child, causing an interest in language, which I see as a body of water: numerous sources, leaks, inflows, and outflows, in all directions - in a collective effort to reach the recesses of memory. My three languages - English, Dutch, and Bosnian - each carry a different amount of stuttering, providing a unique relationship with each. I use cinema, my fourth language, as a means of encountering people, places, histories, and languages. I work primarily in experimental documentary film. I have wondered – how can I make films through intimate means? My method ‘filming through spending time’, fosters connection marked by a desire to understand, to listen and pay attention. I work on ways to use the camera to evoke the process of bonding - from filming intimacy to filming intimately - while acknowledging its influence on reality.
A screenshot from my current film-project.