25 Paintings are based on a found black and white photograph of an unknown woman. These paintings are animated to recapture the moment that once must have happened; an interaction between photographer and model. The Skipping Mind shows an imagined memory and the gaps of recognition that come together with a remembrance. The installation encloses the painted stills and the animation of these portraits.

> DVD, projection, paintings
> Digital animation
> Betacam-SP/ DVD, black and white
> Oil on canvas, 25 (40x50cm)
> Image processing, painting: Bea de Visser

A breathtaking short film about breath, shot in a surrounding where it is not possible to breathe: under water.

> Short film, video
> Running time: 7"52 minutes
> Betacam - SP, colour, stereo
> Scenario, director:
Bea de Visser
> The man: Robert de Bruin
> Cast: Robert de Bruin
> Camera: Eugenio Follender
> Music: the use of ashes
> Edit: Bea de Visser

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In brief sequences similar portraits are linked. BLINK reveals how we generalise apparent differences and agreements by reading the face and poses questions about a personal identity. The installation relates to photography and the methods by which the medium film materialises her immaterial origin: the mind that returns as an appearance out of its own disappearance, the most magical of chemical reactions, from black to white, from negative to again positive.

> Two channel projection / DVD, 2 channel stereo
> Digital animation
> Betacam-SP / DVD, colour, stereo
> Image, image processing: Bea de Visser
> Music: the use of ashes

Heartbreaking noise of clear high and highest frequencies, caused by rubbing a finger on crystal glass, shown on two separate free hanging transparent screens. "I love you", girl gets boy - boy is getting the girl: the ultimate line of a pop-song, a film. Still there are found intimate authentic ways to tell your love these words. At ear-high fixed speakers one hears all given expressions and words replacing the words "I love you".

> 2 film projections / 8 surround speakers
> 16mm film / colour / 2 channel CD -stereo (noise) / 1 channel CD-mono (voice) /
8 surround speakers
> Image / interviews / edit / sound: Bea de Visser
> Camera: Stef Tijdink
> Language: Dutch

About putting one foot in front of the other, bisected with scenes of Rudi van Dantzig (choreographer, former dancer and artistic leader of The National Ballet), who at home works on the first steps of choreography.

> Short film, 35mm, colour, Dolby SR
> Running time: 8 minutes
> Producer: Pieter van Huystee
> Scenario, director: Bea de Visser
> Cast: Rudi van Dantzig, Andrew Kelly
> Camera: Erik van Empel
> Sound: Jan Wouter Stam
> Sonorisation: Peter Hoeks
> Edit: Bea de Visser
> Production: Pieter van Huystee Film

A torn up monologue by a man who has temporary lost his tracks. The Barren Land is loosely based on monologues from the great Tragedies and other words of rumour, humour and horror. The principle character goes through stages of distortion. He creates situations that excite him or that might bring him back on the main tracks of mind that he has temporary lost. Light-footed, boisterous, absurd and touching The Barren Land tells about primal loneliness, one of most individual and simultaneously most general emotions.

> Short film, 35mm, 8"35 minutes - Dolby Digital - language: English
> Producer: Pieter van Huystee
> Scenario / director: Bea de Visser
> Cast: Richard Strange
> Camera: Stef Tijdink / sound: Mark Glynne / sound engineer: Michel Schöpping
> Music: Peter Hoeks / edit / concept sound: Bea de Visser
> Location manager: Hans Eijses / production manager: Sylvia Baan / line producer: Hetty Krapels
> Production: Pieter van Huystee Film

Permanent transmission of a video signal (Netherlands Tax Authority Computer Centre). An installation in which the view and eye movements of the artist is automated. The film is determined by the moment when the camera records by the present day of night light. The stored data about eye movements control simultaneously the focus and image angle of the lens and the pan and/or tilt of the camera and the real editing. In the production rooms on the ground floor of the building, this resulting film is screened and made 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

> Video camera, zoom lens 12-240mm, pan&tilt unit, video control unit,
> Diskette data edit and camera control, 2 circles of 9 monitors
> Image, design programming: Bea de Visser
> Commission: Atelier Rijksbouwmeester / Rijksgebouwendienst
> Location: B/AC, Belastingdienst Automatiseringscentrum, Apeldoorn, NL

The scenery/ video image Waterland is made for the outdoor performance “Waterlanders” of Dansgroep Krisztina de Chatel.

> Video image, 2 channel video
> Overlap projection
> Image, camerawork and edit: Bea de Visser

4 Girls and 4 pieces of chewing gum together make a world of difference in terms of seduction, dirtiness, emotion, sensitivity, sweetness, playfulness, innocence, colour, smell and bewilderment. The scene is uncultivated, incorruptibility, unsolved, invincible, unsurpassed and is almost unbearably beautiful and disillusioning, meant to slip from the hand and to stay on the retina forever.

> Cineboard, 23 min. looped
> DVD, projection
> DigiBeta
> Image, director: Bea de Visser
> The girls: Anne Marie Obispo, Cindy Klos, Mandy Klos, Suhailly Benilia
> Camera: Adri Schrover
> Edit, stills: Bea de Visser
> Commissioned by Stichting Picos de Europa, NL

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Portrait of a woman (Marketá Kulhankova) and of pictures of her, taken around the year 1953 by her photographer husband. De Visser had made an installation in 1994, using pictures she had painted based on her photographic portraits. During a world tour of this work the woman was recognised by her grand daughter at the exhibition at the National Gallery Prague. In this film, De Visser visits the lady in Prague, now in advancing years, for the first time. The discrepancies between past and present are intriguing.

> 35mm film, 11 minutes
> production: Anotherfilm
> scenario, directo, editing, animationr: Bea de Visser
> camera: Miroslav Janek
> HD technique: Tomas Majer
> sound: Michael Micek
> the woman: Marketa Kulhanková
> music: the use of ashes
> assistant director & production:Hans Eijses, Renata Vlckova
> the paintings: The Skipping Mind, oil on canvas [BdV 1994]

Just a Minute Yoko, a straight one-minute film. An alternative look at Yoko Ono's famous buttocks film from the 1960s. A song/performance/object that crosses boundaries.

Bottoms, the Straight Story is the wallpaper version in the exhibition format:DVD-loop (duration sequence 22 minutes)

> Production: AnotherFilm
> Written and directed by Bea de Visser
> Camera: Adri Schrover
> Voice: Jaap Blonk (Just a minute Yoko)
> Language: Guy de Cointet (Just a minute Yoko)
> Bottoms: all friends
> Commissioned by the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Just a minute Yoko)

The screen is the stage. During the theatre performance the 9 dancers are positioned before the screen, hanging on ropes or walking on 3 narrow platforms. The film scenography deepens the dimensions of the performers. One hears Lucas Vandervost (Belgium) reading from Nijinski’s Diary. It reads as a long monologue of despair, loneliness, lust, sexual obsession and longing for being loved by the masses. In a repetition of sequences reflecting Nijinski’s artistic development and his mental decay, Jean- Guillaume Weis (Luxemburg) adapts a typical dance idiom of Nijinski |in his performance. His movements result in a fabulous touching reveal of a nowadays soul of Nijinski.

> HDV, 9X9 m, 1-channel projection, duration 25 minutes (theater performance 45 minutes)
> Nijinski: Jean-Guillaume Weis
> Choreography: Jean-Guillaume Weis
> Film & sound: Bea de Visser
> Music: George Dedecker (original soundtrack)
> Production: Anotherfilm Rotterdam
> Location: Grand Theatre Groningen, NL

The theatre production 'Nijinski, a painting' is a Grand Theatre production for the Diaghilev Festival (Jan. 2005). Concept: Niek Kortekaas (Belgium)

This sober and yet emotional film with dancer Jean-Guillaume Weis visualises the artistic development and the last days of the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky in an asylum. At the time, he was writing his diary, which is quoted in the film, and which not only indicates his mental state, but also his desire for love and recognition from the general public.

> 35mm film, Dolby SR, colour, 7 minutes, French spoken, English subtitled
> Choreography / dance / voice: Jean-Guillaume Weis
> Image / sound / editing: Bea de Visser
> Music: Klar  
> Production: Anotherfilm

"Nothing more comic as the accident" once said by Samuel Beckett. If that is true, we need more accidents, or spend more time exposing ourselves to danger.

14 films for the theatre production by the same name Catastrophes, performed by JG Weis Dance People at the Theatre National de Luxembourg, January - April 2006. Catastrophes is inspired by the play 'Catastrophes' written by Samuel Beckett for Vaclav Havel in 1982.

> Direction, editing: Bea de Visser
> Mis en scène: Jean Guillaume Weis, Bea de Visser
> Actor: Marc Planceon
> Dancers: Héloïse Vellard, Benjamin Boar, Kare Poutanen, Stefano Spinelli
> Figure : Michelle Tonteling
> Costumes : Marion Rothhaar
> Music: Marianne Faithfull, Johann Sebastian Bach, Stealing Beauty, Shalabi Effect, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frutz Tonteling e.o.
> Production: Anotherfilm
> Commissioned by Theatre National de Luxembourg

Theatre scenery for 'Circusism', performed by the jazz ensemble I Compani

A performance: Mozart looks round, as long until, ..., he flies off...gone.

The film make good use of the expectation that something will happen. The owl Mozart is the performer who touches you by his beauty, plush outlook, lust for murder and its deadly weapons. With some black humour for projection dream images are pushed away by the shadows of the mind and bizarre illusions about the bird and his prey. In the end it happens: the bird flies off.

> Direction, editing: Bea de Visser
> Camera: Jacques Laureys
> Eagle Owl: Mozart
> music (live performance): I Compani
> guidance Mozart: Yvette van Velthuisen
> production: Anotherfilm
> HDV video, 7"51 min.
> commissioned by I Compani/ Dziga