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.

A fragmented self-portrait.

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.

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.