{"id":33790,"date":"2026-05-15T15:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/?post_type=deelnemer&#038;p=33790"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:41:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:41:59","slug":"ciska-meister","status":"publish","type":"deelnemer","link":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/participant\/ciska-meister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciska Meister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ciska Meister is a filmmaker and artist who\u2014in a tragic\/fortunate way\u2014is bound by the need to question the implications of the genre and medium in which their work is created. Their work is characterized by a hopeless dedication to a playful yet serious approach, in which they continuously pose unanswerable questions (rarely with a conclusion) and dissect perceived paradoxes (which often remain ambiguous).<\/p>\n<p>Thematically, their work touches upon issues related to the ethics of documentary filmmaking, community-based representation, and the positioning of queer identities within a broader discourse. Their films <em>A Place Where Reality Lies<\/em> (2022) and<em> The Ozard<\/em> (2025) have been screened at national and international festivals.<\/p>\n<p>Ciska is selected for <a href=\"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/vrijplaats\/vrijplaats-2026-archive\/\">Vrijplaats Archive<\/a> during which they will work on research about a project with Femke Bosma as co-director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33789,"template":"","class_list":["post-33790","deelnemer","type-deelnemer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/deelnemer\/33790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/deelnemer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/deelnemer"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}