22/05/2020
Cinema Night #2、 #3-David Verbeek
Artist Short Bio:
David Verbeek (1980, The Netherlands) studied film, photography and philosophy at the New School University in New York and graduated in film directing at the Dutch Film Academy in 2005. While studying, he finished his first feature Beat (2004).
In the ten years that followed he made a total of 6 international feature films that have granted him international recognition in the world of contemporary art-house cinema. Titles such as Shanghai Trance (2008) went to festivals around the world and had a big release in China where it was screened in 240 movie theatres in 88 cities. His film Club Zeus, also set in Shanghai and Mandarin spoken, won the Return of the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. In 2010 his Taiwan set, third feature film R U THERE was selected to the main section of the Cannes film festival where it was part of that year’s prestigious Un Certain Regard programme.
Other titles are How to Describe a Cloud and his latest film Full Contact which premiered in 2015 as part of the PLATFORM competition at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Next to his cinematic work, Verbeek has been active as a video artist and photographer. His haunting photo series Ghost Month (2014) was shown in the Museum of Contemporary art in Taipei, Taiwan where it was on for 2 month as a large solo exhibition. Later that year the series was presented in the UNSEEN photo fair in Amsterdam as well.
His work as a video artist also started in Taiwan was when he made the experimental dance film Immortelle. A 10 minute installation made in corporation with the famous Cloud Gate group as choreographers.
His second video installation is part of the Close-Up exhibition in EYE. Full Contact, the installation version, is a 9-minute installation on 2 screens simultaneously and compares the alienation of drone warfare with the intimacy of physical fighting.
「作品簡歷」
職業:導演、攝影師、錄像藝術家
學歷:紐約新學院、阿姆斯特丹電影學院
部分電影作品:
2004年《Beat》入圍鹿特丹影展
2007年《迷樂上海》入圍鹿特丹影展金虎獎
2009年《R U There》入選坎城影展「一種注目」單元
2011年《Club Zeus》鹿特丹影展「The Return ofTiger Awards」得主之一
2013年《雲的模樣》入圍鹿特丹影展「大銀幕獎」競賽單元
2015年《Full Contact》入圍多倫多影展競賽單元
2017年《小玩意》入圍鹿特丹影展「大銀幕獎」競賽單元