Name: Matters of Being X Filmhuis
Start: 2025-11-14T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Filmhuis Den Haag

Drawn in by a single take continuous zoom, 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗼’s film 𝑩𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒅𝒐𝒛𝒆𝒓 portrays the tension between a real estate tycoon and a corrupt politician that escalates as the zoom tightens its frame. Caught in poetic ambitions, in 𝑬𝒙𝒆𝒈𝒊 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒎 filmmaker 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗕𝗶𝗮ł𝗼𝗯𝗿𝘇𝗲𝘀𝗸𝗮 climbs Mont Blanc to recite an epic 19th century poem. Transforming analogue signals into digital images, 𝑼𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒅 by 𝗝ę𝗱𝗿𝘇𝗲𝗷 𝗘𝗹𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗻 unveils the duality of the limited access the images create for our perception.
𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦. 𝘈 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦. 𝘋𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴, 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀

𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗼
As a visual artist, Anna Moreno works through montage, fiction and speculation, tracing how unfinished events spill into present realities. Her video installations stage encounters where architecture, cinema and memory overlap, rehearsing possible futures while unsettling the ways the present is narrated.
𝑩𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒅𝒐𝒛𝒆𝒓 (2023)
Bulldozer unfolds in a single, continuous zoom through a clandestine meeting between a real estate tycoon and a corrupt politician. What begins as a power-and-money game gradually reveals hidden motives, as the tightening frame exposes their dangerous attraction and the peril they represent to each other.
𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘢𝘯 𝘍𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮, 𝘍𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘒𝘸𝘢𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘢𝘵, 𝘈𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘶𝘳 𝘍𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘳

𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗕𝗶𝗮ł𝗼𝗯𝗿𝘇𝗲𝘀𝗸𝗮
Antonina Białobrzeska is a Polish artist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. She refers to her practice as cognitive autofictional documentary filmmaking. Rooted in the traditions of magical realism and poetic documentary, her work explores the mythologisation of time, the fragility of legacy, and the echoes of language in image.
𝑬𝒙𝒆𝒈𝒊 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒎 (2025)
On a quest to translate poetry into action, a filmmaker climbs Mont Blanc to recite a 19th-century Polish poem only to find that real grandeur lies not in success, but in the struggle to make meaning.
𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘶𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘭 – 𝘷𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘉𝘦𝘬𝘬𝘦𝘳-𝘭𝘢 𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘥𝘦-𝘍𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘴

𝗝ę𝗱𝗿𝘇𝗲𝗷 𝗘𝗹𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗻
Jędrzej Eltman’s practice vibrates between performance and spatial composition, focusing on the use of the body as a focal point of human interactions, space perception and cybernetics. His research includes factors affecting visibility and opacity, space and participant’s mutual influence and disintegration.
𝑼𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒅 (Nida 2025)
An analogue camera with a ccd sensor is pointed at the Baltic Sea in the twilight. While the continuous video signal is digitalised and converted on location into binary digits, a contemplation unfolds on the demarcation of the intangible: unveiling the duality of the limited access the images create for our perception.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿
Nele Brökelmann is an artist deeply intrigued by the human need for structures of meaning. The perpetual search for and fabrication of meaning are recurring themes in her practice. These human made structures, and mental and worldly concepts create (physical) borders and either/or thinking which Brökelmann continuously seeks to challenge by playing with the experiences and concepts of distance, repetition and parallelity. Apart from her artistic practice and curating Matters of Being, Brökelmann writes for the contemporary art magazine Metropolis M.

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘪𝘪𝘪 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘴 𝘋𝘦𝘯 𝘏𝘢𝘢𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘓 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦.