Robin Noorda started his study audiovisual design, photography and animation at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam) in 1978 and was admitted to the post graduate Rijks Academie (Amsterdam), but thrown out as his free lance career already took too much time.
He continued with a study composition, minimal- and electronic music at the Centrum of Electronic Music studio (Hilversum), and internships at the Toonder Studio and the Dutch public television broadcaster NOS.
In the 80’s he was designer and animator for the NOS (Dutch public broadcaster) and the pioneering animator of computer animation at Antics, the first CGI studio in the Netherlands. In 1986 he was co-founders of both the ‘Tropism’ art movement and his design and film company Morphosis.
He traveled several times through Mongolia, and produced a photo exhibition, a photo book and the documentary ‘Shivering Beauty - Soundscape of Mongolia’.
He was nominated for a 'Gouden Kalf' and winning many awards at a number of international film festivals as director of the stop-motion animation movies ‘Red-End and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society' and 'Red-end and the Factory Plant’, 'Rebirth of Venus' and 'Lunatic'.
He specialised in experimental photography technics. He initiated and curated the travelling exhibition ‘Photosynthesis’ and he produced infrared photography, Kirlian photograms, X-ray photograms, UVIVF photography, 360º panorama's and scanning electron microscopy photography.
Interactive light installations, made within the Tropism, have been at light festivals in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium, Sweden, China, Singapore and Australia.
Since 1986 he gave workshops and lectures at a number of academies, was commission member of the Dutch and Flemish film fund and was connected to the Netherlands Film Academy.
He continued with a study composition, minimal- and electronic music at the Centrum of Electronic Music studio (Hilversum), and internships at the Toonder Studio and the Dutch public television broadcaster NOS.
In the 80’s he was designer and animator for the NOS (Dutch public broadcaster) and the pioneering animator of computer animation at Antics, the first CGI studio in the Netherlands. In 1986 he was co-founders of both the ‘Tropism’ art movement and his design and film company Morphosis.
He traveled several times through Mongolia, and produced a photo exhibition, a photo book and the documentary ‘Shivering Beauty - Soundscape of Mongolia’.
He was nominated for a 'Gouden Kalf' and winning many awards at a number of international film festivals as director of the stop-motion animation movies ‘Red-End and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society' and 'Red-end and the Factory Plant’, 'Rebirth of Venus' and 'Lunatic'.
He specialised in experimental photography technics. He initiated and curated the travelling exhibition ‘Photosynthesis’ and he produced infrared photography, Kirlian photograms, X-ray photograms, UVIVF photography, 360º panorama's and scanning electron microscopy photography.
Interactive light installations, made within the Tropism, have been at light festivals in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium, Sweden, China, Singapore and Australia.
Since 1986 he gave workshops and lectures at a number of academies, was commission member of the Dutch and Flemish film fund and was connected to the Netherlands Film Academy.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal data
name: Robin Cay Noorda
work: Morphosis (moving media made to measure)
Tropism Art & Science Collective (art foundation triggering awareness)
studio: Loods 6, KNSM-laan 155, 1019 LC Amsterdam
Postal address: Nieuwe Herengracht 81, 1011 RT Amsterdam
Cellphone: +31 (0)6 53228858
e-mail: robin.noorda(at)gmail.com
web: www.tropism.eu - www.robin-noorda.com
disciplines: time based art, scenario, storyboarding, light-art installations, animation, documentary director of photography, curator, virtual reality, experimental photography, 360 art, science related visualisations, music videos, R&D, production design, modelmaking, poetry, consulting
Education, Courses and Research
2017 - 2020, R&D trajectory on 'Sonotrope' a motion to music and sculpture VR installation, together with Jilt van Moorst; NFA, (Lectureship Netherlands Film Academy, Immersive Media Dept.), VRA (Virtual Reality Academy Amsterdam), stg. Steim. Resulting in a dance performance at Cinedans in Eye Film Museum Amsterdam.
2010 - Binger Filmlab, workshop Transmedia Lab by Anita Ondine and Lance Weiler.
2010 - Masterclass by Christopher Vogler on storytelling according to 'The Writer's Journey', at Munich International Short Film festival.
1982 - 1983 Trainee posts at Toonder Animation Studios and NOS (design department Dutch broadcasting organisation). The NOS trainee post resulted in continuous free-lance work, jeopardising attending the Rijksacademie.
1982 - 1983 Rijksacademie Amsterdam, post graduate; visual communication; audiovisual design, experimental media (thrown out).
1981 - 1986 Centrum of Electronic Music studios Hilversum; composition, minimal- and electronic music and studio techniques.
1978 - 1982 Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam; audiovisual design, photography and animation (not finished, after 4 years admitted and switched to the post graduate Rijksacademie).
Photo Projects and Exhibitions
2023 By Photographers - Groupexhibition in Bagagehal, Loods 6, Amsterdam
2022 Lights of Perception - exhibition at SBK gallery, Amsterdam
2020 Ultra Vanity - Gallery Boot & Stein, Sint Maartensburg, photo exhibition
2021 - Open Studio's 100 Years Loods 6, organiser and participant.
2019 - now photo and film shoots for Suzan Drummen in EKWC, Paleis op de Dam, Depot Boijmans, Loods 6.
2018 - 2021 Ultra Vanity, theme exposition at the Flower Art Museum, Masterly The Hague, Grachten Gallery Utrecht, Schimmelpennik Gallery, Art The Hague, Sandvoort Gallery, Gallery Boot.
2018 - 2022 Tropism Lab, a dedicated wing at the Flower Art Museum, Aalsmeer (NL), permanent exhibition with a changing selection of Photosynthesis and new work.
2017 - Creation of hyperbolic panorama series in Singapore, Dubai and Sydney. Infra-red expedition into the Daintree Rainforest (AU).
2016 - Selling of 8 hyperbolic panorama works and assignment on a Paris series.
2016 - 'Hyperbolics make the world go round' photo book with hyperbolic panoramas.
2016 - Assignment for project developer Trebbe to make a series of 3m wide Hyperbolic 360° panoramas of their architectural building projects in the Netherlands.
2015 - Curator with Alfred Marseille of the travelling art exhibition 'Photosynthesis Shedding new Light on Plants' in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
2014 - Assignment for Business Art Service of 16 hyperbolic panorama works.
2011 - 2014 Curator of the travelling and botanic related art exhibition Photosynthesis in the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam. Photo works in Infra Read, X-ray, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Kirlian and Hyperbolic 360.
2003 - 2010 Cross media project ‘The Shivering Beauty of Mongolia’ consisting of the book ‘Transit Mongolia’, a photo exhibition in the Melkweg Gallery, Amsterdam and the music documentary film ‘Shivering Beauty - Soundscape of Mongolia’.
Filmography
2025 Biak - concept art, visuals, production design and animations for a hybrid film about a love story during the decolonisation of Dutch New Guinea by Monique Verhoeckx - Work in progress
2024 - Lunatic, stop-motion animation, 16' - NL Première: Amsterdam, Imagine Fantastic Film Festival, nominated Méliès d’argent. Awards:London UK, New Arts International Film Festival - Poetry Award
Istanbul TR, Anatolia International Film Festival - World Building Award
Milano IT, Absurd Film Festival - Absurd Award
Cleveland Ohio US, Short Sweet Film Fest - Environmental Award
Kookai IN, International Film Festival - Current Issue Award
Reno Nevada US, Sci-on - Winner Best Animation Short
Jaipur IN, Cinema Cappuccino festival - Best Film on Climate Issues
Ramsgate UK International Film Festival - Experimental Award
Brooklin, Ontario CA, International Motion Picture Awards - Special Jury Award
Cocoa Beach, Florida US, Touchstone Independent Film Festival - Best Stop Motion Short Award
Standish UK, MegaFlix Film Awards - Sci-Fi Award Winner
Toronto, Ontario CA, Film For Peace - Best Animation Short Award
Joutseno FI, Art Summer International Film festival - Animation Award
Standish UK, Fortean Film Festival - Winner WTF Award
Genova IT, Flight - Mostra del Cinema di Genova - Best Film Student Jury Award
Foggia IT, 24h Cinematografica - Award Winner Best Animation
London UK, Activists Without Borders Film Festival - Best Animation Film
Amsterdam NL, Shortcutz - best Experimental Film
2021 - Rebirth of Venus, short 4K stop-motion animation-film based on a poem about oppression. Premiere: Netherlands Film Festival
Awards: Berlin Underground Film Festival - Best Rhythm & Poetry | Mumbai International Film Awards - Best Content Award | Cooper Awards - Best Screenwriter | Short Encounters International Film Festival - Best Experimental | Golden Harvest Film Festival - Best Production & Best Experimental Film | Milan Gold Awards - Silver Award Indie Short Film | Milan Gold Awards - Gold Award Production Design | New York Movie Awards - Best Production Design | European Cinematography Awards - Best Visual Effects | New York Istanbul Short Film Festival - Best Visual Effects | Blastoff Los Angeles - Best Sound Design | Golden Bridge Istanbul Short Film Festival - Best Animation | New York City IO Festival - 3th Place Winner Women's Issue Themed | Anticensura Film Featival - Best Political Film | Festival Angaelica - Jury Award Animation | Cine Pobre Film Festival -Honorable Mention | Make Art Not Fear Film Festival - Best Poetry Short
2020 - Loods 6 en de miljoenenfraude van De Key - Documentary film on real estate fraud. The film and my legal leadership of a team of lawyers saved the €60 million building from sale, returning it to the community and preserving it for the creative industries.
2019 - Biomassive Clear-Cut, activistic documentary film on the hoax of biomass (Dutch version went viral).
2015 - Red-end and the Factory Plant. A 4K Digital Cinema stop motion animaton film made in collaboration with Bethany de Forest. Coproduction Beast Animation (BE). Premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival 2015 and a.o. selected for Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival 2016, Mecal 2016, HAFF 2016, FIFE 2016, MIAF 2016, Cartoons on the Bay 2016. Awards: NCAIAF animation festival in Sapporo, Japan | Touchstone Independent Film Festival USA, Best Stop-Motion Film | Honourable Mention for the Devour! Golden Tine Award for Best Animation in Canada.
2014 - La Montre Hermès, five short films and showcases for an international watches campaign, in collaboration with Bethany de Forest.
2009 - Red-end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society. First 4K Digital Cinema stop motion animation film.
In collaboration with Bethany de Forest. Premiered as opening film in Utrecht at HAFF, Moviesquad Award. Nomination Gouden Kalf - NFF,
Espinho, Cinanima, Best Short Film Award
Tallinn, Animated Dreams Festival, "Brain-tap" Award for Best Film
Angers, Premiers Plans - Audience Award Best European Short Film
Nijmegen, Go-short festival, nomination Best Dutch film
St. Petersburg; International Festival of Animation Art, special mention for unconventional look.
And: selected for the competition shorts of Annecy 2010, nomination Cartoon d'Or.
2004 - 2012 a series of music videos for the composer Phantom Frank in collaboration with Bethany de Forest.
2007 - Shivering Beauty - Soundscape of Mongolia, music documentary film , broadcasted on the Dutch public net by the Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation. Premiered as closing film at the Buddhist Film Festival in 2007. The film was also included in the book as dvd ISBN 978 90 5670 180 2. Directors cut of 74’ is realized in 2010.
2006 - Professor van Giffen, Groningen Museum, stereoscopic 3D film on the famous archeologist.
2004 - Finnegans Wake, 90' filmloop for the readings during the Sleepless Night (broadcaster VPRO and Vredenburg) together with Carla Hoekendijk.
1995 - Horses in the Air, first motion capture animation, nominated at the Annecy animation festival.
1994 - Bridge over Europe. first HDTV animation-film, jointless pan along sixty bridges from all over Europe. Premiered in Tuschinski - Amsterdam. In collaboration with Ingrid van Zummeren
1991 - Entropy, a 2D computer animation short on the evolution theory and the Hopi Indians Creation story.
1990 - Screening of six computer animation for TV Design during Siggraph USA, Broadcast Design Award
1982 - Polariz, a synesthesia experiment, a soundscape generated by the colors of images in polarized light. The color spectrum of light transposed upon the spectrum of sound.
Autonomous projects within Tropism Art & Science Collective
2019 - The Sonotrope music performance during the Overkill Festival with Jilt van Moorst and Alfred Marseille. Modulair synthesizers controlled by the Sonotrope Motion to Music Sculpture.
2019 - The Sonotrope dance performance during Cinedans in Eye Film Museum Amsterdam. A motion to music and sculpture VR installation, together with sound design Alfred Marseille, choreography Heidi Vierthaler, dance Luca Cacitti & Shay Partush, coding Jilt van Moorst, VRAcademy Amsterdam), stg. Steim.
2016 - 2017 You lookin' at me? interactive light installation. Big bulging eyes come out of the grass and suspiciously follow you. Selected for the Amsterdam Light Festival 2016, I Light Marina Bay 2017, Singapore (800.000 visitors) and for the largest light festival of the world; Vivid Sydney 2017 (over one million visitors). Awarded the first prize by the children jury of the Amsterdam Light Festival.
2015 - 2017 Sneaky Serpents, interactive underwater light installation in Norrköping, Sweden 2015/2016, Noorderzon Festival Groningen 2016 (NL) and Shenzhen Seaworld Festival, China 2016/2017.
2015 - Curator with Alfred Marseille of the travelling botanical related art exhibition Photosynthesis - Shedding new Light on Plants in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (summer 2015). A Tropism group exhibit.
2014 - 2015 Sneaky Serpents, an interactive underwater light installation selected for the Amsterdam Light Festival, Glowing snakes swim in the canal at the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam. When disturbed, they flee into they dens.
2013 - Curator of the travelling and botanic related art exhibition Photosynthesis in the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam. A Tropism group exhibit. Besides curator and artist also editor of the print and app catalogue.
2012 - Organizer of the Tropistic museum-night (N8) program for the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam. With the Feeding Carnivorous Plants performance and Flora Sonora: A plant reacts via an EEG and synthesizer audibly at stimuli inflicted by visitors.
2012 - Re-establishing the Tropism movement after 17 years of dormant.
1994 - Invitation from the 'Center of Contemporary Art' in Moscow for a Tropistic exhibition. -Tropistic manifestation ‘The Riddle of the Old Church’, Amsterdam, November '94, Including ‘The Shadow Harp’ a laser web unconsciously played by visitors, November ’94, -Tropistic installation for the 'Beek in Beeld'-project, June-August '94; - A Tropistic installation for the 'Hermit' festival in Plasy, Czech republic, July '94, 3 camera obscura projectors with mechanical animations and floating sound shower audio-parabolics.
1982 - 1993 Tropistic exhibits in a.o. the Zeebelt theatre, The Hague; in Time Based Arts, Amsterdam; De Fabriek, Eindhoven; De Vonk, Bussum; Provadja, Alkmaar Spiegeltent, Ede. With a.o. the installation Flora Sonora: A plant reacts via an EEG and synthesizer audibly at stimuli inflicted by visitors.
Awards and nominations
2024 2025 - Lunatic, short stop-motion film
London UK, New Arts International Film Festival - Poetry Award
Istanbul TR, Anatolia International Film Festival - World Building Award
Milano IT, Absurd Film Festival - Absurd Award
Cleveland Ohio US, Short Sweet Film Fest - Environmental Award
Kookai IN, International Film Festival - Current Issue Award
Reno Nevada US, Sci-on - Winner Best Animation Short
Jaipur IN, Cinema Cappuccino festival - Best Film on Climate Issues
Ramsgate UK International Film Festival - Experimental Award
Brooklin, Ontario CA, International Motion Picture Awards - Special Jury Award
Cocoa Beach, Florida US, Touchstone Independent Film Festival - Best Stop Motion Short Award
Standish UK, MegaFlix Film Awards - Sci-Fi Award Winner
Toronto, Ontario CA, Film For Peace - Best Animation Short Award
Joutseno FI, Art Summer International Film festival - Animation Award
Standish UK, Fortean Film Festival - Winner WTF Award
Genova IT, Flight - Mostra del Cinema di Genova - Best Film Student Jury Award
Foggia IT, 24h Cinematografica - Award Winner Best Animation
London UK, Activists Without Borders Film Festival - Best Animation Film
Amsterdam NL, Shortcutz - best Experimental Film
2021 - Rebirth of Venus, short stop-motion film, premiered Nederlands Film Festival
Berlin Underground Film Festival - Best Rhythm & Poetry,
Mumbai International Film Awards - Best Content Award,
Cooper Awards - Best Screenwriter,
Short Encounters International Film Festival - Best Experimental,
Golden Harvest Film Festival - Best Production & Best Experimental Film,
Milan Gold Awards - Silver Award Indie Short Film & - Gold Award Production Design,
New York Movie Awards - Best Production Design,
European Cinematography Awards - Best Visual Effects,
New York Istanbul Short Film Festival - Best Visual Effects,
Blastoff Los Angeles - Best Sound Design,
Golden Bridge Istanbul Short Film Festival - Best Animation
New York City IO Festival - 3th Place Winner Women's Issue Themed
Anticensura Film Festival - Best Political Film
Festival Angaelica - Jury Award Animation
Cine Pobre Film Festival - Honorable Mention
2021 - Sneaky Serpents, winner for the MANA 2020 CITIC Press Lightening Selection in the Outdoor Works of Light category (China).
2018 - Shortlisted for International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) in the category Still life with work form the Ultra Vanity series.
2017 - 2nd prize announced for the international Nikon Photo Contest in the Open Awards for the photography of 'Red-end and the Factory Plant' (withdrawn on technical grounds).
2017 - Finalist for International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) in the category Still life with work form the Ultra Vanity series.
2016 - the film 'Red-end and the Factory Plant': Award at the NCAIAF animation festival in Sapporo, Japan and an Honourable Mention for the Devour! Golden Tine Award for Best Animation in Canada, selected for the competition of Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
2016 'You lookin' at me?' Awarded with the first prize by the children jury of the Amsterdam Light Festival.
2015 - in competition for the Dutch Film Award 'Gouden Kalf' of the stop motion animation film 'Red-end and the Factory Plant'.
2015 - The exhibition 'Photosynthesis' in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh was shortlisted for the 2015 Fringe Sustainable Practice Award.
2009 - 2010 The film 'Red-end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society':
Utrecht, HAFF 09 opening film, Moviesquad Award
Espinho, Cinanima 09, Award for Best Short Film
Tallinn, Animated Dreams Festival, "Brain-tap" Award for Best Film
Angers, Premiers Plans - Audience Award Best European Short Film
Nijmegen, Go-short festival, nomination Best Dutch film
Utrecht, Dutch Film Festival, nomination ‘Gouden Kalf’
St. Petersburg; International Festival of Animation Art, special mention for unconventional look.
Annecy International Animation Film Festival, nomination,
Cartoon d'Or, nomination.
2003 - Special Silver Medal at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, for the multi screen film project at the Dutch pavilion on location theatre.
2001 - Nominated at ‘The One Minute’ film festival with ‘Head or Tail’, with Susanne Ohmann.
2000 - Golden Award for the DVD and CD-Rom ‘Livial’ for Organon at the Golden Z festival, cat. new media and Silver at the SAM awards.
1999 - Nominated at the Annecy animation festival (France) for ‘Horses in the Air’.
1996 - Bronze award, category ‘special effects’ for Philips Matchline, New York Festivals.
1994 - Golden award, category 'introduction and lead-in title', bronze award for the special effects and two honorable mentions for 'Philips Matchline' film at the 'New York Festivals'.
1993 - Bronze award at the 'Broadcast Designers Association Awards' USA for 'Body Matters’, made for the public broadcasters TROS, Veronica, BRT and ARD.
1991 - 2nd prize 'Digigraph' Brussels for the lead-in title 'Time is Money, for the BRT
1990 - First prize 'Image du Futur', Canada for 'Partners', for the AVRO (Dutch public broadcaster).
1990 - Screening of six computer animation films during 'Siggraph' USA.
Publications
2016 - 'Hyperbolics make the world go round' POD photo book with hyperbolic (360) panoramas.
2015 - Red end and the Factory Plant, The Game, free app for OSX an Android.
2015 - 'Photosynthesis - Shedding new Light on Plants' printed catalogue and app for the exhibition in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
2012 - Tropisms 12 - Fotosynthese, app and printed art catalogue of the exhibition in the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam.
2007 - ‘Transit Mongolia’ monograph including the documentary film Shivering Beauty, Soundscape of Mongolia on dvd. ISBN 9789056701802
2000 - ‘Fetish Art’ monograph in collaboration with fashion designer/sculptor Doesjka Bee under the pseudonym of Robin Cay (Edition Stemmle, ISBN 3908163153).
1976 - 1979 cartoonist at underground magazine Speedo, published by Drukwerk.
Funding
2024 Lunatic funded by the Netherlands Film Fund after realisation as it is an improvisation animation.
2018 Two grands by the Mondriaan Foundation for the VR installation Sonotrope.
2017 A grant by the Creative Industries Fund NL for the VR installation Sonotrope.
2016 - 2017 Twice a grant by the Lectureship of the Netherlands Film Academy, for the Sonotrope VR installation.
2015 Funding for Photosynthesis in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by RBGE.
2011 - 2015 Red-end and the Factory Plant, animation film funded by the Netherlands Film Fund and the Flemish Film Fund (VAF).
2014 Funding by Business Art Service for 16 hyperbolic city panorama works of Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Rotterdam.
2013 Funding for Photosynthesis in the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam by: AFK - Amsterdam Art Fund, Amsterdam 2013 Fund, Zabawas, Dutch Foundation of Literature.
2007 - 2009 Red-end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society, animation film funded by the Netherlands Film Fund.
1994 Tropism exposition and manifestation 'the Riddle of the Old Church' Amsterdam, funded by the Mondriaan Fund.
Work Experience in Education, Consultancy and Board Functions
2018 - 2025 co-founder and board member of the Loods 6 Community association, coordinator Legal Affairs.
My film (Loods 6 en de miljoenenfraude van De Key) and my coordination of a team of lawyers saved the €60 million building from sale, returning it to the community in 2023 and preserving it for the creative industries.
2017 - now chairman Tropism Art & Science Foundation.
2017 - 2018 R&D trajectory on the Sonotrope at the Lectureship of the Netherlands Film Academy.
2016 - Workshop stop motion animation Netherlands Film Academy, Production Design & Cinematography Dept.
2009 - 2019 ArtEZ, art academy Zwolle, yearly workshop on image and sound for composers and visual artists .
2009 - Workshop 4K Digital Cinema for the Waag Society and HAFF.
2006 - 2011 Commission member on the VAF, (Flemish Film Fund), animation dept.
2006 - 2009 NIAF (Netherlands Institute for Animation Film) lectures, guidance of animation participants.
2006 - 2007 Summer workshops short film, photography and animation at La Colina, Spain.
2002 - 2018 Netherlands Film Academy, workshops, guest lecturer, at IMVFX dept.
2001 - 2006 Minerva Art Academy, lecturer media design; coach final exam, producer at the production dep.
2001 - 2006 HKU fac. Design Techology, lecturer media design.
2000 - 2005 Dutch Film Fund, advisor on the animation committee.
1986 - now Morphosis - moving media made to measure, founder, director.
1986 - 1996 board member of the first Tropism Foundation.
1986 - 1995 HKU (Art Academy Utrecht), dept. Image- and Media Technology, Hilversum. lecturer Computer Graphics Imagery, animation and concept development.
Work Experience in Commission, animation photography, film and TV design at Morphosis, Antics Studio and the Dutch broadcasting organisation NOS
2019 - now photo and film shoots for Suzan Drummen in EKWC, Paleis op de Dam, Depot Boijmans, Loods 6.
2017 - short historical film for the city of Schiedam on 'Zakkendragers'.
2016 - assignment for project developer Trebbe to make 3 meter wide Hyperbolic 360° panoramas of their architecture projects in the Netherlands.
2014 - five short films and six showcases for an international watches campaign for La Montre Hermès, Paris, in collaboration with Bethany de Forest.
2014 - Assignment for Business Art Service resulting in 16 hyperbolic photo works.
2013 - Sponsor film for the new construction plans of the Rosa Spier Huis.
2006 - 2011 Several music video’s o.a. for the Phantom Four and Melomanics.
2008 - Amsterdam Historic Museum, animation film about the relation of Amsterdam and the royalties.
2006 - Groningen Museum, stereoscopic 3D film on the archeologist van Giffen.
2004 - 2005 Teleac/NOT TV series ‘Vetlekker’ and ‘Over Gewicht’ on food; dozens of animations.
2003 - Film for the dance performance 'Earthlinks', Elsenhout/Händeler; Danceunit.
2002 - Series of short underwater films for the dance performance 'Melting the Solid Outlines of I', choreography Kevin Louis, for Hans Teurlings of RAZ dance company.
2000 - DVD, concert registration, documentary and music video for ‘Doe Maar’; ‘Hees van Ahoy’, V2 Records, direction, design and production.
1994 - 1996 ‘Horses in the Air’ motion capture animation documentary on Eadweard Muybridge. Combination of dance, music and animation. Co-director Peter Sweenen, pilot for the NPS.
1994 - Imagine the skylines of the world. Art work performance as opening act of the fair 'Imagination' with artists in Boston, San Francisco, Sydney and Tokyo.
1994 - 'Locomotive', art and animation TV magazine, workshop and TV broadcasting in DK, NL and CZ. In cooperation with the HKU, Animation Academy Viborg and the film-academy FAMU in Prague.
1986 - now Morphosis - moving media made to measure, founder, owner; (art)direction, animation, TV design, corporate identity, music videos, interactive media, visual effects and design.
1984 - 1986 Antics Studio Amsterdam, first computer animation studio in the Netherlands, pioneer of Computer Graphics Imagery, designer and animator.
1982 - 1996 Freelance TV designer, animator for the Graphic Design dept. of NOS, NOB Design/Interactive. Making title sequences and animations for almost all Dutch and Belgian broadcasters.
Committed Achievements
2020 - Loods 6 en de miljoenenfraude van De Key - Documentary film on real estate fraud. The film and my coordination of a team of lawyers saved the €60 million building from sale, returning it in 2023 to the community and preserving its future for the creative industries and artists.
2019 - Biomassive Clear-Cut, activistic documentary film on the hoax of biomass (Dutch version went viral).
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Personal data
name: Robin Cay Noorda
work: Morphosis (moving media made to measure)
Tropism Art & Science Collective (art foundation triggering awareness)
studio: Loods 6, KNSM-laan 155, 1019 LC Amsterdam
Postal address: Nieuwe Herengracht 81, 1011 RT Amsterdam
Cellphone: +31 (0)6 53228858
e-mail: robin.noorda(at)gmail.com
web: www.tropism.eu - www.robin-noorda.com
disciplines: time based art, scenario, storyboarding, light-art installations, animation, documentary director of photography, curator, virtual reality, experimental photography, 360 art, science related visualisations, music videos, R&D, production design, modelmaking, poetry, consulting
Education, Courses and Research
2017 - 2020, R&D trajectory on 'Sonotrope' a motion to music and sculpture VR installation, together with Jilt van Moorst; NFA, (Lectureship Netherlands Film Academy, Immersive Media Dept.), VRA (Virtual Reality Academy Amsterdam), stg. Steim. Resulting in a dance performance at Cinedans in Eye Film Museum Amsterdam.
2010 - Binger Filmlab, workshop Transmedia Lab by Anita Ondine and Lance Weiler.
2010 - Masterclass by Christopher Vogler on storytelling according to 'The Writer's Journey', at Munich International Short Film festival.
1982 - 1983 Trainee posts at Toonder Animation Studios and NOS (design department Dutch broadcasting organisation). The NOS trainee post resulted in continuous free-lance work, jeopardising attending the Rijksacademie.
1982 - 1983 Rijksacademie Amsterdam, post graduate; visual communication; audiovisual design, experimental media (thrown out).
1981 - 1986 Centrum of Electronic Music studios Hilversum; composition, minimal- and electronic music and studio techniques.
1978 - 1982 Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam; audiovisual design, photography and animation (not finished, after 4 years admitted and switched to the post graduate Rijksacademie).
Photo Projects and Exhibitions
2023 By Photographers - Groupexhibition in Bagagehal, Loods 6, Amsterdam
2022 Lights of Perception - exhibition at SBK gallery, Amsterdam
2020 Ultra Vanity - Gallery Boot & Stein, Sint Maartensburg, photo exhibition
2021 - Open Studio's 100 Years Loods 6, organiser and participant.
2019 - now photo and film shoots for Suzan Drummen in EKWC, Paleis op de Dam, Depot Boijmans, Loods 6.
2018 - 2021 Ultra Vanity, theme exposition at the Flower Art Museum, Masterly The Hague, Grachten Gallery Utrecht, Schimmelpennik Gallery, Art The Hague, Sandvoort Gallery, Gallery Boot.
2018 - 2022 Tropism Lab, a dedicated wing at the Flower Art Museum, Aalsmeer (NL), permanent exhibition with a changing selection of Photosynthesis and new work.
2017 - Creation of hyperbolic panorama series in Singapore, Dubai and Sydney. Infra-red expedition into the Daintree Rainforest (AU).
2016 - Selling of 8 hyperbolic panorama works and assignment on a Paris series.
2016 - 'Hyperbolics make the world go round' photo book with hyperbolic panoramas.
2016 - Assignment for project developer Trebbe to make a series of 3m wide Hyperbolic 360° panoramas of their architectural building projects in the Netherlands.
2015 - Curator with Alfred Marseille of the travelling art exhibition 'Photosynthesis Shedding new Light on Plants' in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
2014 - Assignment for Business Art Service of 16 hyperbolic panorama works.
2011 - 2014 Curator of the travelling and botanic related art exhibition Photosynthesis in the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam. Photo works in Infra Read, X-ray, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Kirlian and Hyperbolic 360.
2003 - 2010 Cross media project ‘The Shivering Beauty of Mongolia’ consisting of the book ‘Transit Mongolia’, a photo exhibition in the Melkweg Gallery, Amsterdam and the music documentary film ‘Shivering Beauty - Soundscape of Mongolia’.
Filmography
2025 Biak - concept art, visuals, production design and animations for a hybrid film about a love story during the decolonisation of Dutch New Guinea by Monique Verhoeckx - Work in progress
2024 - Lunatic, stop-motion animation, 16' - NL Première: Amsterdam, Imagine Fantastic Film Festival, nominated Méliès d’argent. Awards:London UK, New Arts International Film Festival - Poetry Award
Istanbul TR, Anatolia International Film Festival - World Building Award
Milano IT, Absurd Film Festival - Absurd Award
Cleveland Ohio US, Short Sweet Film Fest - Environmental Award
Kookai IN, International Film Festival - Current Issue Award
Reno Nevada US, Sci-on - Winner Best Animation Short
Jaipur IN, Cinema Cappuccino festival - Best Film on Climate Issues
Ramsgate UK International Film Festival - Experimental Award
Brooklin, Ontario CA, International Motion Picture Awards - Special Jury Award
Cocoa Beach, Florida US, Touchstone Independent Film Festival - Best Stop Motion Short Award
Standish UK, MegaFlix Film Awards - Sci-Fi Award Winner
Toronto, Ontario CA, Film For Peace - Best Animation Short Award
Joutseno FI, Art Summer International Film festival - Animation Award
Standish UK, Fortean Film Festival - Winner WTF Award
Genova IT, Flight - Mostra del Cinema di Genova - Best Film Student Jury Award
Foggia IT, 24h Cinematografica - Award Winner Best Animation
London UK, Activists Without Borders Film Festival - Best Animation Film
Amsterdam NL, Shortcutz - best Experimental Film
2021 - Rebirth of Venus, short 4K stop-motion animation-film based on a poem about oppression. Premiere: Netherlands Film Festival
Awards: Berlin Underground Film Festival - Best Rhythm & Poetry | Mumbai International Film Awards - Best Content Award | Cooper Awards - Best Screenwriter | Short Encounters International Film Festival - Best Experimental | Golden Harvest Film Festival - Best Production & Best Experimental Film | Milan Gold Awards - Silver Award Indie Short Film | Milan Gold Awards - Gold Award Production Design | New York Movie Awards - Best Production Design | European Cinematography Awards - Best Visual Effects | New York Istanbul Short Film Festival - Best Visual Effects | Blastoff Los Angeles - Best Sound Design | Golden Bridge Istanbul Short Film Festival - Best Animation | New York City IO Festival - 3th Place Winner Women's Issue Themed | Anticensura Film Featival - Best Political Film | Festival Angaelica - Jury Award Animation | Cine Pobre Film Festival -Honorable Mention | Make Art Not Fear Film Festival - Best Poetry Short
2020 - Loods 6 en de miljoenenfraude van De Key - Documentary film on real estate fraud. The film and my legal leadership of a team of lawyers saved the €60 million building from sale, returning it to the community and preserving it for the creative industries.
2019 - Biomassive Clear-Cut, activistic documentary film on the hoax of biomass (Dutch version went viral).
2015 - Red-end and the Factory Plant. A 4K Digital Cinema stop motion animaton film made in collaboration with Bethany de Forest. Coproduction Beast Animation (BE). Premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival 2015 and a.o. selected for Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival 2016, Mecal 2016, HAFF 2016, FIFE 2016, MIAF 2016, Cartoons on the Bay 2016. Awards: NCAIAF animation festival in Sapporo, Japan | Touchstone Independent Film Festival USA, Best Stop-Motion Film | Honourable Mention for the Devour! Golden Tine Award for Best Animation in Canada.
2014 - La Montre Hermès, five short films and showcases for an international watches campaign, in collaboration with Bethany de Forest.
2009 - Red-end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society. First 4K Digital Cinema stop motion animation film.
In collaboration with Bethany de Forest. Premiered as opening film in Utrecht at HAFF, Moviesquad Award. Nomination Gouden Kalf - NFF,
Espinho, Cinanima, Best Short Film Award
Tallinn, Animated Dreams Festival, "Brain-tap" Award for Best Film
Angers, Premiers Plans - Audience Award Best European Short Film
Nijmegen, Go-short festival, nomination Best Dutch film
St. Petersburg; International Festival of Animation Art, special mention for unconventional look.
And: selected for the competition shorts of Annecy 2010, nomination Cartoon d'Or.
2004 - 2012 a series of music videos for the composer Phantom Frank in collaboration with Bethany de Forest.
2007 - Shivering Beauty - Soundscape of Mongolia, music documentary film , broadcasted on the Dutch public net by the Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation. Premiered as closing film at the Buddhist Film Festival in 2007. The film was also included in the book as dvd ISBN 978 90 5670 180 2. Directors cut of 74’ is realized in 2010.
2006 - Professor van Giffen, Groningen Museum, stereoscopic 3D film on the famous archeologist.
2004 - Finnegans Wake, 90' filmloop for the readings during the Sleepless Night (broadcaster VPRO and Vredenburg) together with Carla Hoekendijk.
1995 - Horses in the Air, first motion capture animation, nominated at the Annecy animation festival.
1994 - Bridge over Europe. first HDTV animation-film, jointless pan along sixty bridges from all over Europe. Premiered in Tuschinski - Amsterdam. In collaboration with Ingrid van Zummeren
1991 - Entropy, a 2D computer animation short on the evolution theory and the Hopi Indians Creation story.
1990 - Screening of six computer animation for TV Design during Siggraph USA, Broadcast Design Award
1982 - Polariz, a synesthesia experiment, a soundscape generated by the colors of images in polarized light. The color spectrum of light transposed upon the spectrum of sound.
Autonomous projects within Tropism Art & Science Collective
2019 - The Sonotrope music performance during the Overkill Festival with Jilt van Moorst and Alfred Marseille. Modulair synthesizers controlled by the Sonotrope Motion to Music Sculpture.
2019 - The Sonotrope dance performance during Cinedans in Eye Film Museum Amsterdam. A motion to music and sculpture VR installation, together with sound design Alfred Marseille, choreography Heidi Vierthaler, dance Luca Cacitti & Shay Partush, coding Jilt van Moorst, VRAcademy Amsterdam), stg. Steim.
2016 - 2017 You lookin' at me? interactive light installation. Big bulging eyes come out of the grass and suspiciously follow you. Selected for the Amsterdam Light Festival 2016, I Light Marina Bay 2017, Singapore (800.000 visitors) and for the largest light festival of the world; Vivid Sydney 2017 (over one million visitors). Awarded the first prize by the children jury of the Amsterdam Light Festival.
2015 - 2017 Sneaky Serpents, interactive underwater light installation in Norrköping, Sweden 2015/2016, Noorderzon Festival Groningen 2016 (NL) and Shenzhen Seaworld Festival, China 2016/2017.
2015 - Curator with Alfred Marseille of the travelling botanical related art exhibition Photosynthesis - Shedding new Light on Plants in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (summer 2015). A Tropism group exhibit.
2014 - 2015 Sneaky Serpents, an interactive underwater light installation selected for the Amsterdam Light Festival, Glowing snakes swim in the canal at the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam. When disturbed, they flee into they dens.
2013 - Curator of the travelling and botanic related art exhibition Photosynthesis in the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam. A Tropism group exhibit. Besides curator and artist also editor of the print and app catalogue.
2012 - Organizer of the Tropistic museum-night (N8) program for the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam. With the Feeding Carnivorous Plants performance and Flora Sonora: A plant reacts via an EEG and synthesizer audibly at stimuli inflicted by visitors.
2012 - Re-establishing the Tropism movement after 17 years of dormant.
1994 - Invitation from the 'Center of Contemporary Art' in Moscow for a Tropistic exhibition. -Tropistic manifestation ‘The Riddle of the Old Church’, Amsterdam, November '94, Including ‘The Shadow Harp’ a laser web unconsciously played by visitors, November ’94, -Tropistic installation for the 'Beek in Beeld'-project, June-August '94; - A Tropistic installation for the 'Hermit' festival in Plasy, Czech republic, July '94, 3 camera obscura projectors with mechanical animations and floating sound shower audio-parabolics.
1982 - 1993 Tropistic exhibits in a.o. the Zeebelt theatre, The Hague; in Time Based Arts, Amsterdam; De Fabriek, Eindhoven; De Vonk, Bussum; Provadja, Alkmaar Spiegeltent, Ede. With a.o. the installation Flora Sonora: A plant reacts via an EEG and synthesizer audibly at stimuli inflicted by visitors.
Awards and nominations
2024 2025 - Lunatic, short stop-motion film
London UK, New Arts International Film Festival - Poetry Award
Istanbul TR, Anatolia International Film Festival - World Building Award
Milano IT, Absurd Film Festival - Absurd Award
Cleveland Ohio US, Short Sweet Film Fest - Environmental Award
Kookai IN, International Film Festival - Current Issue Award
Reno Nevada US, Sci-on - Winner Best Animation Short
Jaipur IN, Cinema Cappuccino festival - Best Film on Climate Issues
Ramsgate UK International Film Festival - Experimental Award
Brooklin, Ontario CA, International Motion Picture Awards - Special Jury Award
Cocoa Beach, Florida US, Touchstone Independent Film Festival - Best Stop Motion Short Award
Standish UK, MegaFlix Film Awards - Sci-Fi Award Winner
Toronto, Ontario CA, Film For Peace - Best Animation Short Award
Joutseno FI, Art Summer International Film festival - Animation Award
Standish UK, Fortean Film Festival - Winner WTF Award
Genova IT, Flight - Mostra del Cinema di Genova - Best Film Student Jury Award
Foggia IT, 24h Cinematografica - Award Winner Best Animation
London UK, Activists Without Borders Film Festival - Best Animation Film
Amsterdam NL, Shortcutz - best Experimental Film
2021 - Rebirth of Venus, short stop-motion film, premiered Nederlands Film Festival
Berlin Underground Film Festival - Best Rhythm & Poetry,
Mumbai International Film Awards - Best Content Award,
Cooper Awards - Best Screenwriter,
Short Encounters International Film Festival - Best Experimental,
Golden Harvest Film Festival - Best Production & Best Experimental Film,
Milan Gold Awards - Silver Award Indie Short Film & - Gold Award Production Design,
New York Movie Awards - Best Production Design,
European Cinematography Awards - Best Visual Effects,
New York Istanbul Short Film Festival - Best Visual Effects,
Blastoff Los Angeles - Best Sound Design,
Golden Bridge Istanbul Short Film Festival - Best Animation
New York City IO Festival - 3th Place Winner Women's Issue Themed
Anticensura Film Festival - Best Political Film
Festival Angaelica - Jury Award Animation
Cine Pobre Film Festival - Honorable Mention
2021 - Sneaky Serpents, winner for the MANA 2020 CITIC Press Lightening Selection in the Outdoor Works of Light category (China).
2018 - Shortlisted for International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) in the category Still life with work form the Ultra Vanity series.
2017 - 2nd prize announced for the international Nikon Photo Contest in the Open Awards for the photography of 'Red-end and the Factory Plant' (withdrawn on technical grounds).
2017 - Finalist for International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) in the category Still life with work form the Ultra Vanity series.
2016 - the film 'Red-end and the Factory Plant': Award at the NCAIAF animation festival in Sapporo, Japan and an Honourable Mention for the Devour! Golden Tine Award for Best Animation in Canada, selected for the competition of Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
2016 'You lookin' at me?' Awarded with the first prize by the children jury of the Amsterdam Light Festival.
2015 - in competition for the Dutch Film Award 'Gouden Kalf' of the stop motion animation film 'Red-end and the Factory Plant'.
2015 - The exhibition 'Photosynthesis' in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh was shortlisted for the 2015 Fringe Sustainable Practice Award.
2009 - 2010 The film 'Red-end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society':
Utrecht, HAFF 09 opening film, Moviesquad Award
Espinho, Cinanima 09, Award for Best Short Film
Tallinn, Animated Dreams Festival, "Brain-tap" Award for Best Film
Angers, Premiers Plans - Audience Award Best European Short Film
Nijmegen, Go-short festival, nomination Best Dutch film
Utrecht, Dutch Film Festival, nomination ‘Gouden Kalf’
St. Petersburg; International Festival of Animation Art, special mention for unconventional look.
Annecy International Animation Film Festival, nomination,
Cartoon d'Or, nomination.
2003 - Special Silver Medal at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, for the multi screen film project at the Dutch pavilion on location theatre.
2001 - Nominated at ‘The One Minute’ film festival with ‘Head or Tail’, with Susanne Ohmann.
2000 - Golden Award for the DVD and CD-Rom ‘Livial’ for Organon at the Golden Z festival, cat. new media and Silver at the SAM awards.
1999 - Nominated at the Annecy animation festival (France) for ‘Horses in the Air’.
1996 - Bronze award, category ‘special effects’ for Philips Matchline, New York Festivals.
1994 - Golden award, category 'introduction and lead-in title', bronze award for the special effects and two honorable mentions for 'Philips Matchline' film at the 'New York Festivals'.
1993 - Bronze award at the 'Broadcast Designers Association Awards' USA for 'Body Matters’, made for the public broadcasters TROS, Veronica, BRT and ARD.
1991 - 2nd prize 'Digigraph' Brussels for the lead-in title 'Time is Money, for the BRT
1990 - First prize 'Image du Futur', Canada for 'Partners', for the AVRO (Dutch public broadcaster).
1990 - Screening of six computer animation films during 'Siggraph' USA.
Publications
2016 - 'Hyperbolics make the world go round' POD photo book with hyperbolic (360) panoramas.
2015 - Red end and the Factory Plant, The Game, free app for OSX an Android.
2015 - 'Photosynthesis - Shedding new Light on Plants' printed catalogue and app for the exhibition in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
2012 - Tropisms 12 - Fotosynthese, app and printed art catalogue of the exhibition in the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam.
2007 - ‘Transit Mongolia’ monograph including the documentary film Shivering Beauty, Soundscape of Mongolia on dvd. ISBN 9789056701802
2000 - ‘Fetish Art’ monograph in collaboration with fashion designer/sculptor Doesjka Bee under the pseudonym of Robin Cay (Edition Stemmle, ISBN 3908163153).
1976 - 1979 cartoonist at underground magazine Speedo, published by Drukwerk.
Funding
2024 Lunatic funded by the Netherlands Film Fund after realisation as it is an improvisation animation.
2018 Two grands by the Mondriaan Foundation for the VR installation Sonotrope.
2017 A grant by the Creative Industries Fund NL for the VR installation Sonotrope.
2016 - 2017 Twice a grant by the Lectureship of the Netherlands Film Academy, for the Sonotrope VR installation.
2015 Funding for Photosynthesis in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by RBGE.
2011 - 2015 Red-end and the Factory Plant, animation film funded by the Netherlands Film Fund and the Flemish Film Fund (VAF).
2014 Funding by Business Art Service for 16 hyperbolic city panorama works of Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Rotterdam.
2013 Funding for Photosynthesis in the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam by: AFK - Amsterdam Art Fund, Amsterdam 2013 Fund, Zabawas, Dutch Foundation of Literature.
2007 - 2009 Red-end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society, animation film funded by the Netherlands Film Fund.
1994 Tropism exposition and manifestation 'the Riddle of the Old Church' Amsterdam, funded by the Mondriaan Fund.
Work Experience in Education, Consultancy and Board Functions
2018 - 2025 co-founder and board member of the Loods 6 Community association, coordinator Legal Affairs.
My film (Loods 6 en de miljoenenfraude van De Key) and my coordination of a team of lawyers saved the €60 million building from sale, returning it to the community in 2023 and preserving it for the creative industries.
2017 - now chairman Tropism Art & Science Foundation.
2017 - 2018 R&D trajectory on the Sonotrope at the Lectureship of the Netherlands Film Academy.
2016 - Workshop stop motion animation Netherlands Film Academy, Production Design & Cinematography Dept.
2009 - 2019 ArtEZ, art academy Zwolle, yearly workshop on image and sound for composers and visual artists .
2009 - Workshop 4K Digital Cinema for the Waag Society and HAFF.
2006 - 2011 Commission member on the VAF, (Flemish Film Fund), animation dept.
2006 - 2009 NIAF (Netherlands Institute for Animation Film) lectures, guidance of animation participants.
2006 - 2007 Summer workshops short film, photography and animation at La Colina, Spain.
2002 - 2018 Netherlands Film Academy, workshops, guest lecturer, at IMVFX dept.
2001 - 2006 Minerva Art Academy, lecturer media design; coach final exam, producer at the production dep.
2001 - 2006 HKU fac. Design Techology, lecturer media design.
2000 - 2005 Dutch Film Fund, advisor on the animation committee.
1986 - now Morphosis - moving media made to measure, founder, director.
1986 - 1996 board member of the first Tropism Foundation.
1986 - 1995 HKU (Art Academy Utrecht), dept. Image- and Media Technology, Hilversum. lecturer Computer Graphics Imagery, animation and concept development.
Work Experience in Commission, animation photography, film and TV design at Morphosis, Antics Studio and the Dutch broadcasting organisation NOS
2019 - now photo and film shoots for Suzan Drummen in EKWC, Paleis op de Dam, Depot Boijmans, Loods 6.
2017 - short historical film for the city of Schiedam on 'Zakkendragers'.
2016 - assignment for project developer Trebbe to make 3 meter wide Hyperbolic 360° panoramas of their architecture projects in the Netherlands.
2014 - five short films and six showcases for an international watches campaign for La Montre Hermès, Paris, in collaboration with Bethany de Forest.
2014 - Assignment for Business Art Service resulting in 16 hyperbolic photo works.
2013 - Sponsor film for the new construction plans of the Rosa Spier Huis.
2006 - 2011 Several music video’s o.a. for the Phantom Four and Melomanics.
2008 - Amsterdam Historic Museum, animation film about the relation of Amsterdam and the royalties.
2006 - Groningen Museum, stereoscopic 3D film on the archeologist van Giffen.
2004 - 2005 Teleac/NOT TV series ‘Vetlekker’ and ‘Over Gewicht’ on food; dozens of animations.
2003 - Film for the dance performance 'Earthlinks', Elsenhout/Händeler; Danceunit.
2002 - Series of short underwater films for the dance performance 'Melting the Solid Outlines of I', choreography Kevin Louis, for Hans Teurlings of RAZ dance company.
2000 - DVD, concert registration, documentary and music video for ‘Doe Maar’; ‘Hees van Ahoy’, V2 Records, direction, design and production.
1994 - 1996 ‘Horses in the Air’ motion capture animation documentary on Eadweard Muybridge. Combination of dance, music and animation. Co-director Peter Sweenen, pilot for the NPS.
1994 - Imagine the skylines of the world. Art work performance as opening act of the fair 'Imagination' with artists in Boston, San Francisco, Sydney and Tokyo.
1994 - 'Locomotive', art and animation TV magazine, workshop and TV broadcasting in DK, NL and CZ. In cooperation with the HKU, Animation Academy Viborg and the film-academy FAMU in Prague.
1986 - now Morphosis - moving media made to measure, founder, owner; (art)direction, animation, TV design, corporate identity, music videos, interactive media, visual effects and design.
1984 - 1986 Antics Studio Amsterdam, first computer animation studio in the Netherlands, pioneer of Computer Graphics Imagery, designer and animator.
1982 - 1996 Freelance TV designer, animator for the Graphic Design dept. of NOS, NOB Design/Interactive. Making title sequences and animations for almost all Dutch and Belgian broadcasters.
Committed Achievements
2020 - Loods 6 en de miljoenenfraude van De Key - Documentary film on real estate fraud. The film and my coordination of a team of lawyers saved the €60 million building from sale, returning it in 2023 to the community and preserving its future for the creative industries and artists.
2019 - Biomassive Clear-Cut, activistic documentary film on the hoax of biomass (Dutch version went viral).
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