Bea De Visser

Bea de Visser is recognized for her film art, installation work and sound performances. Her work can best be described as a digital media-based practice - from the perspective of a painter and storyteller who looks at the world through different lenses. Animals are a recurring motif in her work. Her work seduces the onlooker by a rich cinematographic language, that is poetic in nature, and told by alternative narrative form. Bea de Visser attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1993-1995). Prior to she pursues her studies painting with a study electro acoustic sound. She initially began her career as a sound and performance artist in the trendy club scene and artist’s spaces, early 1980-ies. With her installation work, she was asked for international exhibitions in museums, art spaces, and galleries, including MoMA New York, National Museum Prague, Madrid, Pittsburgh, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Her films are screened at international film festivals, museums and gallery’s worldwide. Bea de Visser leads to date the independent studio Anotherfilm that nowadays works as a platform for scenario and film development. Bea de Visser is a lecturer and researcher at the University of the Arts Utrecht at the departments Audio Visual Media and Writing for Performance. She is a buddy for Master students of the department MA Scenography. She works as an art consultant for the corporate art collection of the Bravis hospital, NL. Films and awards No horses on Mars (2024, short), to be released The animal that therefore I am (2019, short), won 54 Interntional awards worldwide (ref. anotherfilm.zone) Chairs Missing (2011, short) Mama Superfreak (2009, short) Just a Minute Yoko (2004, short), commissioned by International Film Festival Rotterdam, IFFR 2004 The Second Memory (2004, short), won award Best European Documentary, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 2005, New York, USA Roses and Fall (2006, short) The Barren Land (2001, short) Another Another (1999, short) A Breath Hush (1996, short), Best Short Film, International Film Festival Novi Sad, former Yugoslavia, 1997