My Garage Media - 'The Video as Seen at the End of the Video Age' - Biennal of Architecture 2008, Venice

‘The video as seen at the end of the video age’ is a critical work that warns of the danger of an auto-legitimate culture of spontaneism.
Today everyone can afford videocameras, recording and editing systems and the advent of ‘personal media’ is already a reality. With the arrival of web 2.0, this material is pouring onto the web with quantities of video content of dubious edits.
‘The End of the Video’ piece was realized during a workshop held at the 2008 Venice Biennial, Beyond Architecture. Visitors, unknowingly, were directly involved in the filmmaking process which involved throwing a ball, which concealed a micro-camera, to other random visitors in the different pavilions of the exhibition, creating an architecture of media exchange. The ball symbolizes the death of video in that whoever happened to catch the ball automatically became a video maker, signifying that today it is possible to realize videos with the same degree of ease as required to throw a ball. In our piece, throwing the ball equates to recording a video: what is left is just the gesture, emptied of its significance.
The fact that the ball’s direction, once thrown, is not entirely predictable, and the filmmakers are also unaware that the ball is a recording device, points to the yet-to-emerge future of semi-autonomous mediums. The video explores how the accumulation of video content seems to respond more to a techno-narrative bulimia rather than to the research of quality or standard.

My Short Films - Home Sweet Home Teaser (post production)

Director & Writer: Lauren Hoekstra
Genre: Dark Comedy
Plot: A dysfunctional family finds unity via the untimely suicide attempt of their dog.

My Web Applications - NONXRATEDSEX.COM

NONXRATEDSEX 2.0 is an interactive, mixed-media web application that allows a potential user to map his/her sexual activity by tagging the place and time on the 'post-orgasmic' map where he/she had sex. The users can look up and visualize the erogenous spots of their block, city or country created by the activity of all the other users.
Even though Sex 2.0 has a playful and appealing note, it is to be considered as an art experiment that brings sex to the web steering clear of all pornographic connotations. The aim is to show the beauty of interaction between the biological (sex) and the technological (the web) in the creation of an unusual prospective of our world.

MY SHOWREEL 2008

My Short Films - See Through (work in progress)

See Through Work In Progress from Lauren Hoekstra on Vimeo.

My Films - Apartment

COSì VICINI, EPPURE COSì LONTANI.

Ùn, due, tre... E i visi nella piazza si sfumano nella moltitudine. Ùn, due, tre-ni strappano via abbracci e sguardi al loro dipartire. Ùn, due, tre-cento centimentri di parete ci appartano nei nostri Apartments. Ùn, due, tre... la città cerca di tenere il ritmo. Avanti e indietro, su e giù, giorno dopo giorno: per le vie elettriche, per le scale mobili, per reti di incroci e parallele. Ùn, due, tre volte al giorno, ora, minuto, secondo, la metropoli avvicina estranei, li fa ballare il suo walzer. Ma prima che ci si possa incrociare gli sguardi, si gira l'angolo, scatta il verde, il tram parte e torniamo a essere soli.

My Prizes - Meeting Rimini: "What's In Your City?"

Apartment wins second prize at the international competition "What's In Your City?".
The italian director Pupi Avati, as the president of the jury, comments the winner's short films, including Apartment, at the Gran Galà Prize-giving Event at the 2008 Meeting of Rimini.

Backstage Photos of See Through, my latest short film

Still photographers: Simona Ilaria di Michele & Lorena Martins

My Adverts - See Thru

See Thru, liberamente ispirato alla poetica dell'artista Pop, Roy Lichtenstein, è un pretesto per un nuovo apprendimento del mondo che l'occhio viziato dai mass media, e oramai assuefatto a questa deformazione, non riesce più a cogliere nel suo significato. Le sue scenografie see thru (trasparente) mettono in scena simbolicamente i meccanismi e la finzione del mondo della pubblicità, responsabile di questo eclissamento con la realtà.

My Adverts - Inseparable

Inseparable. Dove due amori, due distanze, due fragranze get together, forever. EMPORIO ARMANI

My Prizes - MORETHANZERO

SEX 2.0 è tra i 10 format selezionati per il pitching DIESEL TV al festival crossmediale morethanzero alla camera di commercio di Milano.

SEX 2.0 è un programma crossmediale che unisce una mappa delle zone erogene della città con un telegiornale del sesso creato dagli utenti. Obiettivo: informare divertendo. 

Clicca qui per vedere il sito ufficiale del festival MORETHANZERO

My Prizes - Premio Speciale Centro Iniziative Culturali Pordenone

Apartment (l'ultimo mio cortometraggio) vince il premio più importante, il premio speciale, al concorso VIDEOCINEMA&SCUOLA Centro Iniziative Culturali Pordenone
€ 800,00 per il settore università, accademie, istituti e scuole di specializzazione ad indirizzo artistico e audiovisivo