Barbara Visser studied photography and audiovisual arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the Cooper Union in New York and the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Her work focuses on cultural and historical stories and the form in which they manifest themselves through film, art, design, digital tools and other media. This is also reflected in the temporary master’s program F for Fact (2020-20240) that she set up at the Sandberg Institute. In 2017, Visser was interim director of IDFA. She made the films C.K. (2012), The End of Fear (2018) and Alreadymade ( 2023), of which a museum presentation will be on display in Zurich in 2024.
Barbara was a speaker for masterclass hybrid fiction/non-fiction.