Official Selection 9th International Video Poetry Festival<br /><br />“What does the animal see when it looks at me?” Three animals and a woman in an enclosed space. As they study each other, their own methods of communication create a wordless conversation. We view them in close-up and from various perspectives, with the woman as a solitary species in this universe.<br /><br />Bea de Visser is recognized for her film art, installation work and sound<br />performances. In her work she questions elementary issues with a social undercurrent, poetical in nature, based on conceptual design, by alternative narration, in a cinematic language.<br /><br />Bea de Visser attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1993-1995). Prior she pursues her studies painting with a study electroacoustic 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<br />New York, National Museum Prague, Madrid, Pittsburgh and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Her films are screened at international film festivals worldwide.<br />Bea de Visser leads to date the independent studio Anotherfilm that nowadays works as a platform for scenario and film development.<br />She is a lecturer at the University of the Arts, Utrecht.<br /><br />Director Statement<br /><br />The world will become a better place if we are able to give up the priority position of man and look around us as a human animal that is capable of meeting other species on foot of equivalence.