In these 3 Atelier Talks, Claudy Jongstra is in conversation with Suzanna De Sitter at Studio Claudy Jongstra in Friesland, The Netherlands. Created in collaboration with Galerie Fontana for the exhibition Connecting with Claudy – A Tribute to the Bloomsbury Group.

Stealing red pencils, spying through binoculars and running across the street like maniacs. All for one reason: Grown-ups need to vote ‘in their place’. A 50-second promotional film ahead of the Dutch elections of 2021.

In the project 3×3=9, Milou Mignon explores ’the song’ in all its shapes. The song as medicine, as protest, erotic… 3 live performances, 3 live events and this summer we’ve also shot 3 videoclips. What I fancy so much about working with Milou is that she gives me a lot of freedom creatively and she […]

650 primary school students conducted research into the levels of oxygen of the water in their neighborhood and this resulted in a art piece at the Amsterdam Light Festival. Microbes in the water provide half of all oxygen on Earth with the help of light. Colored water samples from the students form a formula for […]

Opening of the world’s first True Price Store, and the world’s first True Price supermarket. Here consumers can actually see and pay the true price. A True Price is the market price plus the social and environmental costs of a product.  

In the first months of corona I was asked to make a documentary for Freedomlab. I filmed the desolate streets of Amsterdam and we had interviews trough the internet. After this documentary Freedomlab organized a live event in Felix Meritus to present their 4 post-corona scenarios.   FreedomLab is a strategy consultancy, cross-over innovation hub, […]

Due corona Amsterdam FashionWeek 2020 was an online event. The fashion shows were broadcasted ‘live’ with a delay of 2 hours. In those two hours I had to make an edit with the 3 different cameras they shot with.  

Signing of a new contract between Rabobank and the Stedelijk Museum. I’m responsible for most of the filming and the editing.

Dutch poet and musician Robin Block was ask to give an exclusive online concert for Erasmus Huis Jakarta. Instead of sitting in front of his computer he asked me to make 5 live music videos. All 5 turned out very differently with their own style.  

A videoclip for Loki, a story in between time and space It shows the road of finding home, or that means ‘coming homeshot on the beach of Terschelling. A project together with Kay van Vree and Lieke Dijkstra

A promotional film for The Red Rebels, an activistic street art performance group responding to the world wide climate crisis in their own and silent way.

A videoclip for Wolken, a Dutch musical duet between Robin Block and Rita Zipora. A visual poetic journey trough the clouds and the countryside of Amsterdam. A project together with Kay van Vree.

A promotional film for Cacao Exceptional, an explosive dance evening in which the primal feeling is sought in a ritual way trough consuming cacao. Tenclub explores: is it possible to arise a tribe in one evening with total strangers?

Shaking! A videoclip for Collectief Explosief. Shake it off!

From the shore we see a small island where two people meet. How did they get there, what are they doing there and how do they relate to each other? Surrounded by water and wind, they have to surrender to themselves, the other and the island. A physical performance about two people looking for guidance. […]

Cedric Vermue is a Dutch pianist, composer, and producer of contemporary classical music. His pieces are fragile and tender, nostalgic, and tranquil. For this surrealistic live session, we filled the room with 300 liters of water to capture the shimmering reflections dancing on the hammers and the keys after a day of experimenting with a […]

A promotional film for Feast of the Beast, the Halloween Party of Tenclub. Beautiful bandits, evil villains, wicked creatures of the night, we know you are out there. Wandering around hiding behind your good people masks. This is the time to reveal yourself, and step out of the shadow. Everyone has a dark side. We […]

A promotional film for Urban Greeners, a group of start-ups located on the island Utopia in Almere. On this island they experiment with green and sustainable alternatives. I’m responsible for the whole process: from script writing to recording the voice-over, to (drone)filming, to editing.

I made this wedding film at the most beautiful location next to the beach in the south of France. This was my first wedding film and I enjoyed it a lot. I’m responsible for all the filming, the drone filming and the editing.

On this page I show the short fiction films I made. During the creation of my very first fiction film I couldn’t find someone who could play the main actor so I decided to play it myself. That’s also where my love for acting and theater started. Lucy D Floris wakes up in the morning […]

Just before the elections of 2017, I saw a spoken word act on Facebook. It inspired me so much that I contacted the artist about making a video clip for him. Not only was he pleased, so were a lot of people on Facebook. After 2 days this videos had more than 50.000 views.

Promotional film for Boeren & Buren. The openening of a ‘buurderij’ at the Ceuvel in Amsterdam. Buy your vegetables online from local farmers.

An interview on the Calandlyceum school in Amsterdam for Diatoetsen, a test developer for primary education secondary education.