Queensday, 30 of April in Holland means, everything is possible.
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Apr 30, 2009
Jan 12, 2009
Yavaş Yavaş
Women's empowerment in the village, story of men and women in Turkey.
The Dutch filmmaker Maarten Rens is interested in the effect of women's emancipation on the position of both men and women. In this film he exposes in particular the role and attitude of men, and highlights the behaviour and emotions of husbands in a Turkish village.
The film has been recorded in collaboration with the Turkish female film-maker
Özlem Sariyildiz, at the initiative of Jos Huber (policy advisor for the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs & Employment).
In Turkey the position of women is changing fast. Images of young, free women in cities as Istanbul and Ankara are seen everywhere. Unfortunately these images are only part of reality. The AK-party with their Muslim signature reigns in a country where the strong secular tradition of Ataturk is much stronger in the cities than it is rooted in the villages. Intense ideological struggle with the headscarf made the Turkish state shake to its foundations. The AKP is committed to achieving membership of the EU. Under that influence the juridical position of women, being equal to men, has been strengthened considerably. But what happens meanwhile in the traditional villages in the countryside? Are they aware of the judicial changes in personal relationships between husband and wife? What is the role of Islam and traditions in their lives?
The documentary Yavaş Yavaş (Slowly, slowly) shows an emancipation project in a traditional village in the mountains near Bursa, where women started a collective to build and run a restaurant. Women and men in this small community tell their story about the first difficult and laborious steps. The women show disbelief about the resistance of the men. For the women it was of crucial importance to have a place of their own as they were not allowed to participate in the local cooperative for men. The importance of having their own place to meet and to work together is a red line. The documentary aims to register the uneasiness following the changes in the relation between men and women and the final recognition of the women’s success. In the end the community was able to find a new balance of power between men and women without losing their important and essential traditions.
What does emancipation in a Turkish village look like from within? We’ll see a group of headscarved women running a restaurant, to finance ‘good works’ for the community with their earnings, in line with their religious conviction.
No public plea or arguing for economic independence for women, but just a project that unmistakable leads to the emancipation of women within Islam.
A moving, passionate and humorous story told from the point of view of both women and men.
29 min Turkish spoken, Dutch or English subtitled. 2009
Nov 3, 2008
Eye Image Damascus
Eye Image Damascus
Exhibitions in Aleppo and Damascus
Workshops for students of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Damascus
Eye Image Damascus website
Exhibitions in Aleppo and Damascus
Workshops for students of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Damascus
Eye Image Damascus website
All videos seperately:
Sep 1, 2008
September
September
This is a try out film I did with Matilde Kulo in Namibia amoung the Himba people in Opuo
This is a try out film I did with Matilde Kulo in Namibia amoung the Himba people in Opuo
Dec 24, 2007
La Femme et l'amour en Tunisie
Het leven van de vrouw in Noord-Afrika is aan grote veranderingen onderhevig.
Traditionele familieverbanden in het zuiden moderniseren in groot tempo in het op het westen
georiënteerde mediterrane noorden.
Vrouwen in de Sahara en Tunis vertellen openhartig over hun ervaringen en de veranderingen in de
Arabische wereld.
gerealiseerd door:
Anita Mizrahi et Maarten Rens
Tunis/Amsterdam mei 2007
ⓒ Mizrahi/Rens
Traditionele familieverbanden in het zuiden moderniseren in groot tempo in het op het westen
georiënteerde mediterrane noorden.
Vrouwen in de Sahara en Tunis vertellen openhartig over hun ervaringen en de veranderingen in de
Arabische wereld.
Anita Mizrahi et Maarten Rens
Tunis/Amsterdam mei 2007
ⓒ Mizrahi/Rens
Aug 12, 2007
Zula II survive
The first film project with Ubuntu Theatre organisation in 2007
Zula II survive Project website
"Zula II survive" the film, 40 minutes
The Zula boys on the doc.
The sailing cinema during the art expo in Amsterdam Open Ateliers Westelijke Eilanden 2008
De varende bioscoop tijdens Open Ateliers Westelijke Eilanden 2008
May 12, 2007
Africaserver Magazine
Africaserver magazine
In 2007 we upgraded the Africaserver into the Africaserver Magazine.
Sub title: African Vibrancies - Het leuke van Afrika
May 1, 2007
CEO van Designserver BV
From 1996 until 2007 I was CEO of Designserver - Production Company for new media.
In 2007 I realized I had become a manager and decided to step out to pick up my old trade, documentary making, new media projects and giving workshops world wide. The company is going fine as you can see on the website: Designserver.
Opening the new studio in October 2000
Apr 10, 2006
Apr 1, 2005
Playing History
In December 2005 I produced a two part documentary series for SABC, the South African Broadcast Corporation. Playing History, the series, is based upon the archive which resulted from my work for the African National Congres, the liberation movement of South Africa in the 1980ties. 2x 48 minutes.
Part 1
Part 2
May 10, 2003
The Netherlands and Trans atlantic slave-trade
The Netherlands and slave-trade website
With 7 pupils from a primary school in Banjul we sailed the gambia river for 10 days. Day and night. The 5 girls and 2 boys interviewed the old chiefs in the villages to hear if they still new what the slave trade was like. Here it is like yesterday....
With 7 pupils from a primary school in Banjul we sailed the gambia river for 10 days. Day and night. The 5 girls and 2 boys interviewed the old chiefs in the villages to hear if they still new what the slave trade was like. Here it is like yesterday....
May 22, 2002
Genocide Serenade
Genocide Serenade
Film 29 minutes 2002 Dutch television
The film shows the famous Ghanian sculptor Kofi Setordji and his 600 pieces monument.
Genocide Rwanda website
Film 29 minutes 2002 Dutch television
The film shows the famous Ghanian sculptor Kofi Setordji and his 600 pieces monument.
Genocide Rwanda website
Mar 13, 2000
Jan 1, 2000
New Media productions
Some of the New Media stuff, CD-Roms and internet, we produced within Designserver Company
during the years 1994 - 2005. Lots of educational software, productions for ministries, NGO's, universities and museums.
Sep 4, 1994
Sep 2, 1994
De Dodo
De Dodo (regie/prod) 1994
Animatie in de tentoonstelling "Het lot van de Dodo" in het Zoologisch Museum Universiteit van Amsterdam
Animatie in de tentoonstelling "Het lot van de Dodo" in het Zoologisch Museum Universiteit van Amsterdam
Sep 10, 1993
Halligen
De strijd tegen het water/Halligen (direc/prod)1993 (Zuiderzeemuseum Enkhuizen)
Leven zonder dijken
Leven zonder dijken
Mar 15, 1993
Uit wonen
Deze animatie werd gemaakt voor de tentoonstelling Mimicry in het Zoologisch institute in Amsterdam.
Sep 10, 1991
ROOK
ROOK, Fish smokers on the Westwal (director) 1991
The ancient technique of fish smoking in the Netherlands
The ancient technique of fish smoking in the Netherlands
Nov 1, 1990
Nagelaten betrekkingen - Left Relations
Left Relations (Nagelaten Betrekkingen) is the story of Juris Vičs returning for the first time since 1944 to his native country Latvia in 1990. At the time former soviet republic Latvia was in the process of gaining independence from the Sovjet Union. Length 52 minutes. Broadcast in the Netherlands by HOS, November 1990. Film by Remmelt Lukkien and Maarten Rens.
52 min
52 min
Apr 7, 1989
Mar 10, 1988
Before Dawn
Before Dawn (Culture in another South Africa) (regie/prod)1988 (VARA)
In December 1987 500 South African artists performed and discussed the cultural future of South Africa in Amsterdam's main theatres. The film was broadcast in December 1988 in the Netherlands by VARA.
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In December 1987 500 South African artists performed and discussed the cultural future of South Africa in Amsterdam's main theatres. The film was broadcast in December 1988 in the Netherlands by VARA.
Dec 18, 1987
DOR
DOR, low is better, Monasteries in Ladakh (camera/prod) 1988 (NOS)
Togther with antropologist Robert Boozajer I visted the Phiang Monastry in ladakh in 1987. We brought along an Alp horn to compare it with the Dung Cheng, the sacred horn in the monastry.
Togther with antropologist Robert Boozajer I visted the Phiang Monastry in ladakh in 1987. We brought along an Alp horn to compare it with the Dung Cheng, the sacred horn in the monastry.
Sep 10, 1987
Jun 15, 1986
Sep 10, 1985
POLKA
POLKA, Mexicans in Texas (camera/prod) 1985/86 (Chan C NY) 52 min
The Polka traced from Austria, trough Mexico into Texas: Texmex music.
Mayibuye i Africa
Mayibuye i Africa (Come back Africa) (director/camera/prod) 1985 (VARA)
During the UN Year of the Youth, 1985, I travelled with Anneke Vreeburg, a 20 year old girl from Amsterdam squatter movement, to Johannesburg. Anneke interviewed the active youth during the state of emergency.
During the UN Year of the Youth, 1985, I travelled with Anneke Vreeburg, a 20 year old girl from Amsterdam squatter movement, to Johannesburg. Anneke interviewed the active youth during the state of emergency.
Jun 10, 1985
Sep 1, 1984
BLEH
BLEH, gypsies in South-Serbia (camera/prod) 1984
In April 1984 my friend Robert Boonzajer told me het met two Sebian gypsies with trumpets on a railway station in South Serbia. We decided to go there, by car, to look for the brass gypsy music: BLEH music. No violins, no harmonicas, just brass. BLEH
In April 1984 my friend Robert Boonzajer told me het met two Sebian gypsies with trumpets on a railway station in South Serbia. We decided to go there, by car, to look for the brass gypsy music: BLEH music. No violins, no harmonicas, just brass. BLEH
Aug 10, 1984
Fles 6
Fles 6
Tessel and Jona being 1 and 4 years old crawling through Schiermonnickoog
In August 1984 I took my daughters to the far east end of the island Schiermonnickoog. Our Wadden islands are "travelling" to the east. So we walked and crawled from east to west. From the new land to the populated end in 10 days time. As a father I wanted to know how we were together, the three of us. My dauters were 1 and 4 years old at the time.
Tessel and Jona being 1 and 4 years old crawling through Schiermonnickoog
In August 1984 I took my daughters to the far east end of the island Schiermonnickoog. Our Wadden islands are "travelling" to the east. So we walked and crawled from east to west. From the new land to the populated end in 10 days time. As a father I wanted to know how we were together, the three of us. My dauters were 1 and 4 years old at the time.
Dec 15, 1983
Witness Apartheid Aggression
Witness Apartheid Aggression (director/camera/prod) 1983/84
In October 1983 I visited, together with Conny Braam and Fons Geerlings, Lesoto, Mocambique and Angola to film evidence for the Western (European) involvement in the war going on in Southern Africa. One of the hottest fronts in the Cold War at the time. This material was presented at the Public Hearing in December 1983 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This event resulted in the film Witness Apartheid Aggression.
In October 1983 I visited, together with Conny Braam and Fons Geerlings, Lesoto, Mocambique and Angola to film evidence for the Western (European) involvement in the war going on in Southern Africa. One of the hottest fronts in the Cold War at the time. This material was presented at the Public Hearing in December 1983 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This event resulted in the film Witness Apartheid Aggression.
Feb 10, 1983
Doors of culture shall be opened
The doors of culture shall be opened! (director/camera/prod) 1982/83
In December 1982 a conference was held in Amsterdam under the title “The Voice of Resistance”. Towards 100 in exile living artists from South Africa gathered with Dutch artists to debate South African culture in “De Bali” and “De Populier”. The African National Congress and the Anti Apartheid Movement were the organizers. The cultural accord between the South African Government and the Dutch Government had been broken but the alternative accord with the majority of the SA population was not yet established. A vibrant exposure of SA culture is presented in this film.
In December 1982 a conference was held in Amsterdam under the title “The Voice of Resistance”. Towards 100 in exile living artists from South Africa gathered with Dutch artists to debate South African culture in “De Bali” and “De Populier”. The African National Congress and the Anti Apartheid Movement were the organizers. The cultural accord between the South African Government and the Dutch Government had been broken but the alternative accord with the majority of the SA population was not yet established. A vibrant exposure of SA culture is presented in this film.
Dec 10, 1982
Het Nieuwe Bouwen
Het Nieuwe Bouwen (regie/prod) 1982 (Museum Boymans- van Beuningen)
New media installation
New media installation
Nov 10, 1981
Ik ben er geweest
Ik ben er geweest (director/camera/prod)
Family portrait in Pretoria 1981
Family portrait in Pretoria 1981
Visit to our family in Pretoria, South Africa. I went there with my 1 year old doughter to do a journalistic experiment in 1981. My idea was to portray an uncommon political situation and not to comment on it in the film. What would happen when I showed the result in the Netherlands? ..The world would never be the same...
Jun 10, 1981
Bolivia, een verslag
Bolivia onder Garcia Mesa (camera/prod) 1981 (IKON)
Frank Vellenga, Eva Reisel en Maarten Rens
Nov 24, 1979
May 17, 1977
Apr 4, 1977
3 films with Ulay and Marina Abramoviç
- Breathing Out, Breathing In 1977 (Stedelijk Museum)
- Light/Dark 1978 (Stedelijk Museum)
- AAA-AAA 1978 (Stedelijk Museum)
Jun 5, 1976
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