Johan Kuipers

Grounds, Premises takes the opening scene of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space to consider intention and failure. What emerges is a treatise on the creative process with the emphasis on process rather than result. This film was made while teaching a film production course at a castle in the South of the Netherlands, and is dedicated to our fleeting time together.

Johan Kuipers expresses his doubts about being an artist. In particular, his regularly recurring desire to quit my profession plays a major role. The video is an accumulation of applications of the video medium: music, art and advertising videos and documentary fragments placed roughly one after the other. The whole of the separate videos almost ‘reads’ like a portfolio, but ultimately it is a kind of pilot broadcast of Bedhelm TV, a TV channel that broadcasts Kuipers' music and music videos non-stop.

Johan Kuipers expresses his doubts about being an artist. In particular, his regularly recurring desire to quit my profession plays a major role. The video is an accumulation of applications of the video medium: music, art and advertising videos and documentary fragments placed roughly one after the other. The whole of the separate videos almost ‘reads’ like a portfolio, but ultimately it is a kind of pilot broadcast of Bedhelm TV, a TV channel that broadcasts Kuipers' music and music videos non-stop.

A fragmented self-portrait.