A selection of Emma's past video & animation work

All projects edited and/or animated by me, projects labeled film are also filmed by me

🧠 Self-initiated video work

• animation NERO – While a classics professor recalls the image of an ancient political figure, a neural network tries to create one from online searches. Screened at IMPAKT festival 2018 watch here
• found footage animation Escape Here Now (the game) – trailer for an online point-and-click game I made about the self-improvement industry watch here
• film animation United Mental States – personal interviews with Dutch teenagers about the current state of their mental health, with their self-imagined ‘mental landscapes’ as backdrops. watch here
• animation film Mermaid Counselling – experimental video essay featuring my face my thoughts & my drawings watch here
• film animation Vliegangst met Hedwig – part of a video installation about my mother blending documentary, fiction, and self-help. watch here
• animation found footage Guardians of the Amazon – collage-style animation accompanying a series of posters about the relationship between the Western world, climate change and the indigenous communities of the Amazon. Exhibited at 'Views from Above' icw Greenpeace NL watch here (no sound)
• animation film Look Inside – impression of installation + video about contrasting voices within the self-improvement industry watch here
• found footage film VRcation – a virtual travel experience made from found 360° footage and a shapeshifting tourguide watch here
• film Translocal Lives – documenting a filmmaking program for refugees in Rotterdam, including footage made by participants watch here

🤝 Commissions & collaborations

• Facade (editor) – a short by Ewan Macbeth about empathy, guilt and culpability in the face of the cost-cutting austerity politics of the UK. screened at IFFR 2025 watch here
• film A Los Melómanos – crowdfunding campaign for percussionist Nique Quentin (shot, directed & edited) watch here
• animation Identity>Body>Machine>World>System – crowdfunding campaign video for KABK graduation show 2019 watch here
• film Net Niet – teaser for a dance show by choreographer Lara Drozdek watch here
• film Valores para Vivir – documentation of an experiential education project in La Calera, Colombia watch here
• film The Network, Outlined – The very abstract concept of ‘the network’, visualised in a very concrete way by people of various generations. watch here