Below is a selection of my artistic work.* I also love sharing my practice through teaching and mentoring, and regularly give workshops on screenwriting. For inquiries and further information, get in touch via the Contact page.
*List does not include my academic or my commercial work. If you’re curious, do reach out.
Watch my film music showreel 2024 here:
FILM WORK
FEATURE FILM
VideoVeterans (2026) – documentary
co-writer, composer
director: Rob Rombout
with financial support from Belgian film fund VAF
Five Nights Shomal (2024) – fiction
writer, director, composer
pilot film premiered at EYE Filmmuseum titled ‘me, I was once a girl’
featuring: Henriette Nagel, Ramez Nourzada
cinematography: Keren Bergman
editing: Reinier Zoutendijk
sound design: Luuk Bakkum, Sarantoula Masatli
music programming: Xiangming Niu
assistant direction: Mats Licht
assistant DOP: Alle Dick Huppes, Kimlee Vatae Minkyeung
Listen to the music of Five Nights Shomal here:
SHORT FILM
Brazil (2025) – fiction
composer
director: Danilo Stanimirovic
Reenacting a reenactment (2024) – documentary
writer, director
cinematography: Kimlee Vatae Minkyeung
premiered at Netherlands Film Academy (NFA)
Between Elements (2022) – documentary
co-director with Rob Rombout and students of the Athens school of Visual Arts
premiered as opening film at PelDocFest 2022
Portraits (2021) – documentary
co-director with Rob Rombout and students of Nafplio University
premiered as opening film at PelDocFest 2021
VIDEO ART & INSTALLATIONS
Artistic Research Collection of 6 separate pieces on (the absence of) language, semiotics and music in film narrative:
a certain reconciliation (2024) – 28’51 looped
a physical representation of Lacan’s mirror stage, applied to a female character arc in search of new emancipatory narrative
cinematography by Keren Bergman and Kimlee Vatae Minkyeung, acting Henriette Nagel and Ramez Nourzada
exposition at NFA
verblendungen (2023) – 1’15
a tribute to Kaija Saariaho, transducing her music into verbal and sonic associations
la puanteur était si forte (2023) – 5’07
study with actor Ramez Nourzada on musical repetition and the annihilation of language – after a poem by Baudelaire
whether the light reaches for us (2023) – 4’35
spoken word over videoscape on the development of story since the beginning of evolution; a critical test-case on the potential of the 3-act structure as a universal narrative
Mother (2023) – 2’16
a mute study on opposite structures and desire in Greimas’ semiotics square, and how the absent becomes a present, almost visible subject
On the purpose of language (2022) – 3’31
archival footage rewritten into 3 short chapters on language, in neuroscience and in society
Artistic Research Collection of 5 separate pieces on imaginary encounters between inaccessible worlds – premiered at the Netherlands Film Academy:
a story in three shots (2023) – 2’52
short piece on how the external world arrives into the walls of a home, written during a masterclass by Matías Piñeiro – including original music
صفر الزليج / voyage des azulejos (2023) – 9’52
an audiovisual journey to explore the connections between Safavid and contemporary Dutch civilisations
sofre haft sin // suffering of sins (2023) – 12’10
spoken word piece on ethical warfare between the West and Iran, seated on a table with objects, written during a masterclass with sound artist Carlos Casas
love letters to SVR / I have forgotten what part of me is yours or mine (2023) – 2’47
video art piece with archival footage on a fictional encounter with Sergei Rachmaninov, one hundred years apart – including original music
moving out (2022) – 1’10
a visual reflection on relocating away from your loved ones, written during a masterclass by Nobunye Levin
MUSIC & PERFORMANCE
feistritz dances (2025) – 4’22
four movements for cello and violin
- up in the tower room – 1′
- birds over the castle – 1’50
- a dark romance – 1’09
- dance in the knight’s hall – 1′
performed in Maarn with violinist Aarti Prins
gale and gust (2025) – 4’58
bossa nova for guitar, percussion, voice, cello, violin
part of an EP for Revive Studios
in the village (2024) – 3’13
for cello and voice
part of an EP for Revive Studios
sleep temple (2024) – 4’14
for cello and voice
part of an EP for Revive Studios
girl city room (2024) – 1’34
composed during a masterclass with composer Oliver Coates at Beeld & Geluid, Hilversum
gham makhor – a cry of sorrow (2023) – 15’
a single performer musical theatre reflection on the state of the world
performed at NFA
you always gave it water (2023) – 13’28
- you always gave it water – 6’13
- echoing drumming – 3’10
- breathing tuning humming crying – 4’05
for videoscape, cello, piano and vocals
performed at NFA
tuning into Tehran (2023) – 3’31
for cithare and soundscape
composed during a masterclass with sound artist Carlos Casas
journey to light (2023) – 8’38
for cello and contemporary dance
performed in Amsterdam with dancer-choreographer Fernando Oliveira
buckwheat on cello (2023) – 3’08
for cello
WRITING
SCREENPLAYS
VideoVeterans (2026), feature documentary, dir. Rob Rombout
Poessie (2025), short fiction
Five Nights Shomal (2024), feature fiction
High Tea (2023), short fiction
L’anxiété très rationnelle de Mlle Ludley (2023), short fiction
Sergei’s Room (2023), short fiction
POETRY
a rotting carcass (2022) performed at NFA
waking (2022), written as part of a Masterclass by Kate Briggs, performed at NFA
stolling (NL) / coagulation (EN) (2019), nominated for a national poetry prize
kerosine (2018), nominated and published in the bundle ‘Goudlicht en Avondschijn’ as top-100 in the Dutch national Turing Poetry Competition
old love (2017), nominated for a national poetry prize
duister van ons goud (2010), nominated for a national poetry prize