Videography

Short doc Eigenheim

29 February 2024
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Short documentary on homelessness after detention

Project info:
How can you still feel at home somewhere after years of being detained? ‘Eigenheim’ tells the story of 24-year old April from Amsterdam who ended up on the streets after periods of detention. That life started early. She was 12 years old when she was evicted from home. All she had was a Big Shopper with some personal belongings.

The long road to a new home took her from shelters, the street, sofas at friends’ places, to her own appartment in Amsterdam. Today, her dog is helping April building a new life.

 
Client: Stichting Zwerfjongeren Nederland
 
Media: Video
 
My role: Direction, camera, edit
 
Languages: Dutch

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Company video portraits for Rubio

15 October 2021
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Video portrait series social impact start-ups

Project info: Amsterdam based impact investor Rubio invests in start-ups and scale-ups that want to have a positive impact on the world. In this series of short video portraits the entrepreneurs tell about their personal motivations, the struggles they had to overcome, the impact they are creating and the leap the company is taking. Everybody jump!
 
Client: Rubio impact ventures
 
Media: Video
 
My role: Concept, camera, interview, editing
 
Languages: English

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Explainer videos Ipsos

26 January 2021
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Script writing, video animation and editing for the international research agency Ipsos



Project info: Creation of four explainer videos for research agency Ipsos, based in Amsterdam. Used in a LinkedIn campaign.
 
Client: Ipsos
 
Media: Video
 
My role: Script writing, video animation, editing
 
Languages: Dutch
 
 
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Promo video new course Utrecht University

7 November 2020
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Video animation for Utrecht University




Project info: Promotion video for the new TIC course at the Utrecht University
 
Client: Utrecht University/Universiteit Utrecht
 
Media: Video
 
My role: Video animation, editing and graphic design
 
Languages: English
 
Watch the short video testimonials of three students who participated in the course

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Music video postpunk band Prey

3 July 2020
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Camera and editing music video




Project info: Dutch postpunk band Prey (Tilburg, Holland) launched a demo in 2020. ‘New Life I’ is one track of the album. I shot the footage at a theatre in Holland and edited it into a official music video.
 
Client: Autonomous
 
Media: Video
 
My role: Camera and edit
 
Languages: –

 

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Short video stories on climate adaption

7 May 2020
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Short video stories on climate adaption for Enpuls

Project info: For the first online trend report by enery think tank Enpuls we made short video stories to show how climate adaption works in real life.

In short scenes we see the main character Rikkert saving energy and water and finding solutions for climate change. I created the concept and script, did camera and edit. Animations were made by animation studio Jagthund.
 
Client: Enpuls
 
Media: Video
 
My role: Concept, script, camera, edit
 
Languages: Dutch

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Short doc Perspectief

20 November 2019
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Short documentary made for Perspectief victim offender mediations, director’s cut

Project info: It all starts with a simple theft of a bag. What happens next is something both perpetrator and victim could not predict. This short documentary, made on behalf of Perspectief, a Dutch organization that brings perpetrators of crimes into contact with victims, tells the story of two lives that meet.

It’s a story full of paradox: the offender, a drug addict, asks the judge for a longer sentence. The victim wants to report the perpetrator, with one condition: that something positive comes out of it. For the offender.

After interviewing both main characters in preparation of this production, I realized how both lives were wide apart, but were connected through this simple crime.

This is the director’s cut.
 
Client: Perspectief Herstelbemiddeling
 
Media: Video
 
My role: Script, interview, camera, edit
 
Languages: Dutch

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Video recap press freedom award show

5 November 2019
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Video report of Free Press Live 2019 on press freedom

Project info: Video report of the Free Press Live award show in The Hague. Bahia Tahzib-Lie, Human Rights Ambassador of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs hands out the awards to the most resilient journalist of the year, the Iraqi photo journalist Ali Arkady, who was selected by the Dutch NGO Free Press Unlimited.


The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs financially supports Free Press Unlimited with its Safety for Media Professionals programme.


This video recap looks back at the event and has a statement of Bahia Tahzib-Lie on the importance of press freedom worldwide.


Client: The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 
Media: Video
 
Languages: English

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Video editing and animation by Michiel Bles

29 September 2019
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When pictures are put in motion, things get even more impactful. Its ability to hit the heart as well as the head is what I love about video. Frame by frame video takes you on a journey through storyland.

I work as a freelance video editor, editing videos and making video animations for NGO’s, media and the creative industry, like War Child, RNW Media, Perspectief, RNTC, Utrecht University and others.

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Video report round table conference German Embassy

27 September 2019
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Video report round table conference on climate change, organized by The German Embassy, The Hague 2019

Project info: Video report of The Hague Roundtable on Climate & Security organized by the German Embassy in The Hague and Hagueroundtable. The round table was attended by representatives of 44 embassies and civil society organizations, based in The Hague.

Speakers were Michaela Spaeth, Director for Energy, Climate Policy and Export Controls, German Federal Foreign Office, Matt Luna, Roundtable Organizer, Wouter Veening, Chairman, Inst. for Environmental Security, Maarten van Aalst, Director of Red Cross Climate Center, Jamie Shea,
Sec. General of GMACCC (Former NATO Deputy Asst. Sec. General for Emerging Security Challenges), Ronald Jackson, Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) in Barbados and Ann Vaughan, Senior Advisor of Mercy Corps.

The event at the Residence of the German Ambassador, Huis Schuylenburch in The Hague.
 
Client: The German Embassy in The Hague
 
Media: Video
 
Languages: English

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Video for social media photojournalism strike

29 January 2019
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Video animation




Project info: Without photojournalism we lose sight of things that are happening in the world. On January 25th more that 450 Dutch photojournalists were on strike. On this day the involved photographers did not take photographs, nor did they deliver their pictures to photo and news agencies. This campaign called ‘Fotolozevrijdag’ or ‘Picturefreefriday’ was organized by the Dutch professional association and trade union for journalists, NVJ, to advocate for better rates and more appreciation of the craftsmanship of photojournalists.

I made this short social media video to create awareness of the plight of photojournalist. And shared it using #fotolozevrijdag and #fotojournalistiekheefteenprijs.

The video was published on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. The video was played more than 5,700 times and reached more than 19,000 people (stats of 29-01-2019) .
 
Client: Autonomous
 
Media: Video
 
My role: Video animation and graphic design
 
Languages: Dutch

 

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Chaptered life story – an interactive multimedia longscroll

23 October 2018
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Interactive/multimedia longread ‘Denish’


Project info: This impressive life story is told by Denish, former child soldier from Uganda. The kind of story you find in an evil children’s book. Non-fiction, that is.
 
This multimedia production has been made in close cooperation with War Child Holland. This Dutch NGO provides psychosocial support to children affected by armed conflict. Denish has been a child soldier in the civil war in Northern Uganda. He was forced to join the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in their fight for control over the Northern part of the African country.
 
Denish’ interview was done February 2017. In 2017 War Child Holland closed the programme in Uganda after being active in the country for 12 years.
 
Watch this longscroll, or ‘chaptered life story’ on how Denish wakes up from his childhood nightmares.
 
Client: Autonomous
 
Media: Video, photography
 
My role: Interviewing, video editing, production and interaction design
 
Languages: English
 
Watch the full multimedia longscroll story "Waking up from childhood nightmares"

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Video animation Universiteit Utrecht

16 March 2018
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Video animation




Project info: Announcement of the winner of the teacher talent of the year 2018 of Utrecht University. In this short video animation and Instagram story both teacher and teacher talent of the year are revealed. The video was shown during the award show and on social media.
 
Client: Utrecht University/Universiteit Utrecht
 
Media: Video
 
My role: Photography, video animation and graphic design
 
Languages: English

 

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A photo audio story by War Child and ASN Bank

3 October 2017
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Photo animation, audio editing and interviewing






Project info: Customers of ASN Bank explain why they support War Child by having a savings account “against arms industries”. The story is a combination of portrait photography, an audio interview, video and photo animation. I did both the portrait shots and the interview and turned these ingredients into a short animated web video.
 
Client: War Child
 
Media: Video, photo and audio
 
My role: Interview, portrait photography, editing and animation
 
Languages: Dutch

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Animated visual report War Child ASN Bank

24 July 2017
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Animated visual report War Child ASN Bank




Project info: An animated visual report of War Child’s results in DR Congo. The programme is supported bu Dutch bank ASN. This video report explains to customers of ASN Bank how the sponsorship added to the impact War Child was able to achieve.
 
Client: War Child
 
Media: Video, photo and animation
 
My role: Storyline and editing
 
Languages: Dutch

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Video: social media campaign #StepIntoOurShoes

20 September 2016
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Video editing and animation




Project info: A TV studio, a dozen of volunteers, a letter and one question. Those were the ingredients of a social experiment done by RNW Media. The experiment brought wondering, silence, misunderstanding and a bit of sweat.

I created social media video’s for the new global campaign of RNW’s Love Matters project. The campaign, with the hashtag #StepIntoOurShoes, promotes access to safe and legal abortion. The project was setup in collaboration with Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) and Advocates for Youth.
 
Client: RNW Media
 
Media: Video
 
My role: Editing
 
Languages: English

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Video: Animation Slachtoffer in Beeld

24 February 2016
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Video editing and animation




Project info: Video animation made for Slachtoffer in Beeld, a Dutch NGO organizing contact and mediation between victims and perpetrators of crimes as an act of restorative justice. The video production highlights the activities organized by the organisation in 25 prisons in The Netherlands. Due to privacy reasons only snippets of the original animation are shown in this video.
 
Client: Slachtoffer in Beeld
 
Media: Video, animation, photography, graphic design
 
My role: Concept development and production
 
Languages: Dutch

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Impressions of a paper mill

8 July 2015
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Video production




Project info: Autonomous work

The world’s last operating paper mill is located in Westzaan, The Netherlands. The sturdy mill and its workshop breathe history and craftsmanship. When the wind picks up, the mill starts to growl and groan and makes earth tremble.

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Aftermovie RNW NOOR Academy photojournalism training

6 July 2015
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Project info: Video impression of the RNW NOOR Academy in Mexico. A five day visual storytelling workshop for ten young, aspiring photojournalists from Mexico, Venezuela and El Salvador organised by RNW and leading photo agency NOOR.
 
Client: RNW Media
 
My role:Setting up and organizing training, video and social media reporting
 
Media: Videography
 
Languages: English
 

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#standbyme, video portraits of LGBT activists worldwide

5 July 2015
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Video editing and animation




Project info: Video introduction of 8 LGBT activists from various parts of the world who are contributing to RNW’s advocacy activities during Amsterdam Gay Pride 2014. These short video animations are made with locally produced photo material. By applying a color grading to the imagery, a consistent look and feel is created.
 
Client: RNW Media
 
Media: Video, graphic design
 
My role: Image and video editing
 
Languages: English

 
Watch the full #standbyme project

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Crowdfunding video Urita Music

4 July 2015
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Video editing and animation

Project info: Crowdfunding video for Urita Music; singer/songwriter Urita who has succesfully raised funds for the production of a new music album ‘Building the dream part 2’ on the Dutch crowdfunding platform voordekunst.nl
 
Client: Urita Music
 
Media: Video
 
My role: Video editing
 
Languages: Dutch

 
Watch the full project ‘Building the dream part 2’ on voordekunst.nl

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We are War Child – video portraits

8 May 2015
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We are War Child series of video portraits on vimeo

Interactive video series


Project info: In ‘We are War Child’ people in and around the Dutch NGO War Child step into the spotlight: children in War Child’s programs, donors, employees, volunteers and many more. The short video profiles are interlinked, visitors can scroll through the various portraits.

 
Client: War Child

 
Media: Interactive video

 
My role: Concept development and project roll-out

 
Languages: Dutch
 
   Too bad, story is offline

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Video summary annual report War Child

1 October 2014
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Video, photo and animation





Project info: Highlighting the results of Dutch NGO War Child from the annual report. This short video report, combining video, animation, photography and graphic design, takes the viewer along the major results War Child was able to achieve with its physchosocial support programmes in war-affected areas
 
Client: War Child
 
Media: Video, photo and animation
 
My role: Script writing, editing and animation
 
Languages: English

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