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Mees Bergshoeff




Fluxus media maker,  curater and critic. 

Has a Research masters in Moving Image, Central Saint Martins, London. And a bachelor in Audiovisual media, The University of the Arts Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Graduated both Summa Cum Laude with Honors. And is active on filmsets and in writing processes. 

Based in Amsterdam.

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WORK EXPERIENCE


Directors assistant & script continuïty
Wraak (2025)
    • Blockbuster film in Cinema, Directed by Jonathan Elbers

Project Herbert (2024)
    • Telefilm from production company IJswater, directed by Barbara Bredero


Guest Lecture Audiovisual media ROC
Practice based lecture about New Media (2024)
    • Practice-oriented: Developed and created a social media concept within 3 hours. Combined music, text, and visuals with a personal vision. Provided guidance in concept development and editing skills.


Head organizer and Curator
A Night of Experimental Cinema Film screening (2022)
at Gallery Warmoestraat 67, Amsterdam
    • Curated a selection of eclectic underground films in Amsterdam, questioning the human in its surrounding world. Celebrated the strange and humane, finding new ways of making cinema. Instagram



Head organizer and Curator
Film festival GAP THE MIND LONDON (2022)
at The Phoenix Cinema, London
Together with Claire Kleinman and Julian Cupello Lazo
    • Curated film screenings with "lots of frenetic energy but also some genuine reflective moments." Aimed to celebrate film, its makers, and its community while encouraging audience involvement and accessibility.

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SET EXPERIENCE

First AD
  • Videoclip Move - Kourosh (2024) 
  • Videoclip Bang/val - Lemuël de Graaf (2023)
  • Videoclip Wolf - Kourosh (2023)

Producer
  • What do you think (2021)

Production Assistant 
  • International serie - Der Amsterdam Krimi (2024) 
  • Straatcoaches vs Aliens (2024)
  • De favoriet (2023) 
  • Meral Ö (2023) 
  • Santos (2022)
  • Toen we van de duitsers veloren (2022)
  • Onder de blote hemel (2021) 

Art departement 
  • Olifantje in het Bos (2024)
  • Moonrise Carcosa (2019)
  • Adios Amigos (2015) Intern under Lieke Scholman

Child supervisor
  • Hema commercial (2023)


ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Dramaturg and Script Developer
Script Academy - Eye film museum (2023)
  • Six-week course in providing professional feedback to creatives and learning the ins and outs of the Dutch film industry, taught by Henk Burger and Gemma Derksen. 

Master of Research in Moving Image
University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins (2021-2023)
    • 2-year master program combining practice and research in the arts of film. Graduated Summa Cum Laude in Master of research.
Bachelor in Audiovisual Media
Hogeschool van de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU) (2017-2021)
    • Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Design.


Minor Philosophy in the Post Digital World
Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HVA) (2020)
    • 3rd-year optional half-year course.


Havo
Spinoza Lyceum, Amsterdam (2010-2015)
    • Profile: Economics and Society with Social Sciences, History, and Arts as final exam subjects.



FILMS


AN INSTALLATION THAT LOOKS LIKE IT’S JUST MADE FOR US TO MEET (2023) Avant garde essay film, Londen
    • Film about the identification with our made images and the lack of archive. A work-in-progress film combined with written text and filmic escapades. Concept, regie, camera en edit.



WHAT DO YOU THINK? I ALMOST LOST MY BUTT CRACK (2021)
Graduation film for the Hogeschool van de Kunsten Utrecht.
Five-chapter philosophical contemporary exploration.

AWARDS:
      • Best Scenario @ Vers Film Festival 2022, the Netherlands
      • First Prize Fiction – Professional Jury @ International Film Schools Festival 2022, Uruguay
      • Best International Short Film – Audience Award @ International Film Schools Festival 2022, Uruguay
Where am I? (2019)
    • Experimental film made during a 2-month residency in Iceland, visualizing feeling lost in tableaux vivants in rural Iceland. Co-regie, camera en edit met Zora prins. Residenting at Sigurdur Gudmundsson his homes. 

Daniel OG - Transactional (2023)
Videoclip, Londen
    • Videoclip voor Daniel OG, Londense rapper. Concept, regie, camera en edit.


INTERNSHIPS

Noël Loozen (2020)
    • 3-month internship with autonomous director, photographer, and artist represented by Halal production company.


WRITING/ EXHIBITIONS

GHHH Magazine (2024)
    • Published essay “A human condition”.

GHHH Magazine (2023)
    • Photo, film, writing and music work. Exhibited as a live performamce the film ‘An installation that look like it’s just made for us to meet’.

Cineradar Melkweg (2023)
    • Screeing and talk ‘WHAT DO YOU THINK? I ALMOST LOST MY BUTT CRACK 

Dirty spread colective  (2022)
    • Screeing and talk ‘WHAT DO YOU THINK? I ALMOST LOST MY BUTT CRACK 

A lonely show - Sexyland (2021)
    • Screeing of Where am I? 


SKILLS & INTERESTS
Premiere Pro - Excellent
Camera Handling - Excellent (Owns her own camera set Black magic Pocket 4k)
Film and Philosophy Course (2021)
Youth Theatre School, AJTS (2009-2014)








Born: 10th of April 1998, The Netherlands