Michiel van Bakel Trailers
Panorama Chemours – River reflections TrailerWhat Wide Web? TrailerEnci - A Mosasaur View Trailer
Michiel van Bakel (1966, Netherlands) studied astronomy and psychology for several years before he chose to pursue a career in autonomous visual art. Van Bakel has made films and videos as well as sculptures and interactive multimedia installations. He combines the elementary foundations of photography and video with digital animation techniques. While his approach is technical, his work focuses on people in their surroundings, often resulting in a poetic reality. He lives and works in Rotterdam.
Most Popular Michiel van Bakel Trailers
Total trailers found: 10
01 January 2017
A warped stroll through a forest.
Animated still photographs reveal movement and light on the forest paths that are otherwise invisible to the human eye.
01 January 2013
A horsewoman is riding on an abandoned square. Through the simultaneous filming with 32 digital cameras, the movements of the horse create a surreal impression and are placed out of time.
01 January 2014
Flooded landscape. (from the dystopian world series) 2014
01 January 2020
Drifting between data and images and hovering amidst seemingly incompatible moods: Tarkovsky’s cinematic dreams on the one hand and Zonnestraal’s utopian architecture on the other.
26 January 2022
In a Dutch nature reserve, two canals run parallel to each other. The camera moves across the surface of the water and accelerates to fly from one canal to the other.
01 January 2024
Experimental film that reimagines the world as seen through the eyes of the plumed serpent: "what would happen if you add up the optical sensitivities of a bird that can see into the ultraviolet and a snake that can sense infrared" (source: michielvanbakel.
19 October 2021
Animated film about Port number 9830 on the Maasvlakte, Rotterdam. The natural and technological landscapes of the port area come together in an abrasive way.
30 January 2026
A slow pan shot shows us the Chemours industrial plant next to the contaminated Merwede river, while photographic and digital processes reveal a hidden world of agitated, spectral colours and noises.
25 October 2025
For some years Wood Wide Web is the magic phrase to describe the web of roots, fungi and bacteria helping to connect trees and plants to one another.
15 August 2025
"Our' earth shows its bowels at an open-pit mine. In this quarry near Maastricht the First Dutch Cement Industry -ENCI - exploited marl out of St.
