Anne Vaandrager

Anne Vaandrager

Anne Vaandrager trained as a product designer at the University of the Arts in Arnhem. During her Master’s degree in Material Futures at Central Saint Martins in London, she came into contact with film and began to explore this medium further. Her work usually centers around breaking social norms, which she comments on through mild absurdity.

In her first short fiction film Nesteltherapie (VPRO) she addresses the position of women and the view of the womb as a public domain. In her second film Sun in the Night, developed during the IDFAcademy & NPO Fund workshop, Anne investigates her grandfather’s secret, but is also confronted with her own identity. She tries to reshape her family history through fictional scenes. Sun in the Night is a stylized, investigative and confrontational formal experiment on the border between documentary and fiction. As a maker, she wants to continue exploring the boundaries of film in future projects.

Anne is currently working on a new documentary in collaboration with DOCS by Pupkin and VPRO. In this film she investigates how introverts move in a world that is designed according to an extrovert standard.

Research question

What happens when you cross the boundaries of acting by doing improvisation, and real emotions and experiences start to take over? What then is reality and fiction? And how does the role of the director change in this?

Photocredit: Iris Tempelaar