Startblok is grounded in a cinematic gesture that echoes the writing: a dolly shot that from cut to cut unfolds like a paragraph on a page and frames its cognitive perspective, The film carries the viewer on a bike ride through a series of tunnels—passages that mirror the way memory arranges itself in time. We are guided by a voice-over that acts less as narration and more as an inner voice; a presence in the viewer’s own mind.

This voice does not serve as a support for the images; instead, it opens an imaginative space the viewer might not possess on their own. It takes you places in time. The work invites audiences into an introspective journey where the act of filming becomes inseparable from the act of remembering—and where the first person is not a claim of authority, but an offering of vulnerability.

Startblok is a research process for a longer film project and can be seen as a chapter in which several of that film’s themes converge.

Refresh Amsterdam #3

Startblok got selected for the third edition of the biennial presentation Refresh Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Museum is dedicated to the future.