FILMOGRAPHY

Jeanette Groenendaal (1964) 
Independent Filmmaker, Writer, Artist, Producer, Advisor, Astrologer
Founder G-Network Film Foundation

cv Jeanette Groenendaal

'I just Love it'
Victor Kossakovski

‘Het vlied als een roes voorbij: 
Blikvernauwend en Bewustzijn verruimend’
Dana Linsen, NRC Next

‘Gelukkig zijn er op het IDFA ook films die in geen enkele categorie passen. Jeanette Groenendaal maaktte met REFORMATION een verleidelijk en woest beeldessay’ 
Raymond van den Boogaard NRC  

Als Jeanette Groenendaals 'De Nederlandse Cocaine Fabriek' begint, zit je de eerste vijf minuten met je ogen te knipperen. What the? Is dit echt? Pro Paranoia Pictures.
Mike Naafs

INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER               ____                 

DRAMAYAMA

​Written, Filmed, Directed and Produced by Jeanette Groenendaal
A Space-Time Travel, Independent, Experimental | 99 min | Netherlands | 2020 ​

Filmmaakster Jeanette Groenendaal (Director van de Nederlandse Cocaïne Fabriek) hanteert een documentaire methode om ons met DraMAYAma mee te nemen op een Space Time Travel. Een reis door verleden, heden en toekomst langs rituelen voor de Planeten uit ons Zonnestelsel in de oude Dravidische tempels van het Vedische Zuid India. We beleven de reis door de ogen van healer Branly Gio Lopez, uit Guatemala. Branly is sinds het einde van de Maya kalender op zoek naar inspiratie over de aard en de betekenis van de Maya Kosmologie maar leert vooral dat in het 500 jaar lang gekolonialiseerde Guatemala, de Maya rituelen als hekserij werden verkettert. In de film volgen we hem op zijn queeste door een poëtisch emotionele ervaring waarin hij in een echo van het verleden van een oude beschaving zijn eigen wortels herkent. Ondertussen Spuwt de Vulkaan, sterft de Tempelolifant en ademt de schildpad de weg naar huis.

R E F O R M A T I O N

​Written, Filmed, Directed and Produced by Jeanette Groenendaal
​Perform a Doc, Movie, Experimental | 82 min | Netherlands | 2011

Jeanette Groenendaal verhuisde op zevenjarige leeftijd naar een strenggelovige dorp. In dit gehucht langs de rivier in de Hollandse Bible Belt werd zij in de jaren zeventig als importkind uit Utrecht aangesproken en gevreesd als 'vreemde buitenlander' en als 'stadse hoer'. Op de zwaar gere-formeerde lagere school werd door de schoolmeester voor haar voorgebeden; zij was dochter van de Duivel en de klas dreunde hem massaal na. Groenendaal keert 38 jaar later terug om er een persoonlijk onderzoek naar het zondebok mechanisme te filmen.  Deze gestileerde autobiografie is meer dan een persoonlijke therapie of een documentaire over een fundamentalistische gemeenschap. Ze keert niet terug naar het verleden uit wraak of om te veroordelen maar om de wortels te onderzoeken van een verleden dat nu weer terugkomt: religie, conservatisme, vreemdelingenhaat, het opgeheven vingertje. ​

​‘How does one group of people who think that they know the truth,
what is right and wrong, decide if somebody else is going to hell?’
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Prices/select
​IDFA 2011 Premiere Paradocs, Planet Doc Documentary Film Festival, Reykjavik International Film Festival, Alchemy Film Festival, Edinburg film festival, Bogota Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Guanajuato International Film Festival, EYE Film Institute, Somnio Film Festival, Art house Tour Holland, De Balie Amsterdam, Nutshuis Den Haag.

DUTCH COCAINE FACTORY

​Written, Filmed, Directed and Produced by Jeanette Groenendaal
A Docu-Tective,  Documentary, Experimental | 55 min | Netherlands | 2007 ​

​IDFA link       DUTCH COCAINE FACTORY

Aan de hand van een videodagboek worden we meegesleept in het pro-paranoia wereldbeeld van Dutch Cocaine Factory. Superieur coke gebruiker Arend, een strafpleiter en een drugswetenschapper onderzoeken de verzwegen geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Cocaïne Fabriek. 
Wat als de productieprijs van cocaïne gelijk zou zijn aan die van koffie? Wie bewaakt de bewaker?
Arend zoekt "Solutions", terwijl het decadente coke festijn doordanst.

De kracht van de beelden, de structuur van de film en de onwaarschijnlijkheid van de gebeurtenissen doen denken aan fictie. Maar het documentairedebuut van performance-kunstenares Jeanette Groenendaal vertelt de waarheid en niets dan de waarheid.

Prices/select
IDFA 2007 Premiere Paradocs, Transvizualia Polish Documentary channel, Somnio Filmfestival Bergen, PAFID Patagonia De Balie Amsterdam, Theater Kikker preview ’t Hoogt Utrecht, Focus Film theater Arnhem, Vera Zienema Groningen. Plaza Futura Eindhoven, Planet Doc Review Warsaw, Filmhuis Lumière Maastricht, Cinekarree Aken, Filmhuis Den Haag, Seoul Independent Documentary Film & video Festival Korea, Illuseum Amsterdam, Planet Doc Review Warsaw, De Brakke Grond Amsterdam, De Poorterij Zaltbommel, Filmhuis Lumen Delft, HOTDOCS DOC SHOP Toronto- Canada, TEK filmfestival Rome, Verkadefabriek Den Bosch, Film Museum Amsterdam, DOCUFEST Kosovo, Ketelhuis Amsterdam, Bogota Colombia, Dockanema festival Maputo Mozambique, Kassel Film en documentary festival, “Under Influence” Kunsthaus Dresden Germany, Nationale Wetenschapsdag Leiden, “All about Freedom” Gdansk, Women's Art Festival Le Pont Gallery Aleppo Syria, “Strikt Vertrouwelijk” Leiden Scheltema complex, De Nieuwe Anita Amsterdam, Dasha Cinema Amsterdam, Artisterium New Art Café Tbilisi Georgie, Villa Garigula Georgie, Patagonia experimental filmfestival South America.

PRODUCTION, COLLABORATION AND ADVISORY ​

BioARTCAMP

​Written, Directed and Produced in collaboration with Jeanette Groenendaal, Zoot Derks en Jennifer Willet
Documentary, 3 Screen Video Installation (each 60min.) and 8 Artists Portret (each 25min.) | 177 min | Netherlands | 2011

BioARTCAMP is a two-week residency program at The Banff Centre directed by Dr. Jennifer Willet.

​BioARTCAMP is a hybrid workshop / conference / performance event where 20 national and international artists, scientists, filmmakers, and university students will work for two weeks to build a portable biology laboratory in Banff National Park. 

​BioARTCAMP will serve as a “field research station” housing a functional biological sciences lab and a variety of art/science projects.

Prices/select
IDFA Expended Documentary 2011, A Modern Body Festival Den Haag, Waag Society Amsterdam, University of Windsor, Banff Center for Arts and Creativity Alberta, Imagine Science Film Festival in Dubai, Moscow Melbourne, NYC and London. 

Trailer - BioARTCAMP
More information - http://bioartcamp.blogspot.com/

VLIEGENPIJN
​THE FLY MISERY OF QUAME NYANTAKYI

​Written, Directed and Produced by Jan Willem van Dam
Jeanette Groenendaal Production, Acting, Location manager, Costumes, Catering and Additional Camera
Movie, Experimental | 180 min | Netherlands | 2016

Psychiatric patient - and small time crook - Freddy Inderson is advised to take a role in a fiction film. Will this give him back a place in society or will his demons follow him throughout his live? And what will be the opinion of his fellow actors about the way he tried to solve a murder case?  
Are his ghosts real or is reality his ghost? 
A therapy in a therapy. A film in a film. A different view of documentary and fiction filmmaking. 

​How does a man in problems survive a fictional enviroment? Does it help him to understand the world that surounds him, and if so will he be able to adjust to society, or will it in the contrary be a major setback? After 10 years of homelesness, drug-addiction, some years in prison and the last years living in a psychiatric ward Mr Inderson aka Quamé Nyantakyi was advised to accept a role in a movie. We follow his struggle with a murdercase, the visits to his therapists and his housing in a Witness protection program and his contact with other patients. An experiment full of questions about film and real life. For a big part the story is based on thoughts and and adventures experienced by Mr Inderson. Sometimes he wants to improvise more but that seems to be a part of his problem in a world where (t)his kind of behaviour is not appreciated. Thereby as soon as he thinks he’s adjusted to the mishaps (morals and values) of the country he lives in there is still the cultural lugage that will make’s it hard for him. Hearing voices can be nice if they come by as beautiful songs but normaly this is not the case. Instead they are generaly here to cause problems and and they make it difficult for you to control your own life. ​
Prices/select: Arkipel award 2018, Filmhuis Den Haag, Stroomhuis.
Website - Vliegenpijn

TIMELINE CRITICISM / MONT AGE

​Written, Directed and Produced by Jeroen Derks
Jeanette Groenendaal Production, Location manager, Costumes, Grime, Catering and Additional Camera
Multiple Screen Video Installation, Experimental, Performance | 130min | Netherlands | 2009 - 2011

9 Screen Video Installation
For a period of one year, I observed my front view, the street view, in a surveillance perspective. Direct ‘counter-video’ observations, and ‘surveillances’ from my studio window; capturing the world as it appeared every three minutes in stop motion style, every day.
Not without alienation I monitored through time an ongoing over budgeted city work in front of my door; the sewerage disposal service was intensively renovated for protection immediate flooding in the near future, physically connecting to the waterworks of the Flevopolder of my study. Producing a personal surveillance archive, to reflect on its meaning.

The final installment of the trilogy Archival Fields, in which experimental filmmaker and researcher Zoot Derks questions the use of technological timelines in a philosophical and artistic way. What kind of consequences does the use of such programmed timelines have, which place video images in a historical context and in doing so create an instant past, or "pastness"? Derks invites the audience to participate in his performative video installation, which will stretch out through the staircases, hallways and side rooms of the Flemish art center De Brakke Grond, questioning the editing of video images. Together with the audience, Derks will walk the tightrope between these various meanings and the dividing line between word and image. ​

​Prices/select 
IDFA Expended Cinema Amsterdam, W139 Amsterdam, Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, Insomnia Experimental Film Festival Netherlands, KASK Gent, de Brakke Grond Amsterdam.

​Trailer - Timeline Criticism
​Press - medialink

CRAIGLIST ALLSTARS
COCK COCK WHO IS THERE
FOUR KINGS

​Written, Directed and Produced by Samira Elagoz 
Jeanette Groenendaal Advisor
Documentaire, Experimental | Netherlands | 2014 - 2017

CRAIGLIST ALLSTARS
Documentary | 65 min | 2016
Website - Samira Elagoz

Through Craigslist, an internationally active internet network, Elagoz arranges one-on-one first encounters with a wide variety of men in three cities and explores how the camera influences intimacy between two strangers: The documentarian and the subject. The set up is simple - she brings a camera, and films how they get to know each other. Every encounter is real and unscripted. She weaves her own presence in and out, and becomes part of the narrative. Instead of making a film she enters one. And shares something oddly real with them.

Prices/select: Winner of the Spirit of Cuff Award 2018, Nominated for Dox:Award 2017, Nominated for Best International Films 2017, Nominated for Queer Art 2017, Premiere IDFA 2016.
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COCK COCK WHO IS THERE
Theater Documentary | 65 min | 2017
Website - Samira Elagoz

Cock, Cock… Who’s There? is not your average show about rape, female bodies, online dating, feminism or the male gaze. Samira Elagoz takes us along on her personal research project across three continents. From online platforms, like Tinder and Chatroulette, to close encounters, she showcases gender relations in their brutal and wonderful ambivalence, and takes the audience on her journey of regaining power and attempts to relate to men. IShe explores desire, the power of femininity and the female gaze in a world in which the virtual and the real are inextricably intertwined.

Prices/select: Winner of the Total Theatre Awards 2018, Winner of the Prix Jardin D’Europe 2017, Winner of the André Veltkamp Award 2017, Nominated for the BNG Bank New Theatermaker Award 2017, Nomi-nated for The Judges Choice Award 2018. Winner Edinbrough Festival.








​FOUR KINGS
Short Film | 25 min | 2014
​Website - Samira Elagoz

Four Kings is my first short film, and also works as a pre-version for Craigslist Allstars. It is a non-budget documentation of what I experienced with 4 strangers who answered my ad online: “READ ME! I’m a 24 year-old girl making a short documentary film. I’m looking for strangers. The concept is that I meet you at your place and film how we get to know each other. We handshake and the camera is on the table for both of us to use. Msg me if you want to meet :)”
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Prices/select: Winner of visual art competition Blooom Awards 2014
Nominated for Doc Outlook International Marker Visions de Réel 2015

MY HOME AT THE INTERSECTION

​Written, Directed and Produced by Abhishek Thapar
Jeanette Groenendaal Advisor and Second Editor
​Documentaire, Performance | 60 min | Netherlands | 2017

In this intimate and charming performance Abhishek Thapar takes us back to the conflict in the Indian province of Punjab, where his family lost their house. In the performance personal memories of three generations in his family collide with the many official versions of this piece of history. It starts with a reminder of how his family helped him as a little boy to make a play with him as a local superhero in the lead. On the basis of this innocent act he shows us a bloody reality.  ​

​The past comes to life through his use of video, stories and the flavors he has brought with him from the kitchen of his grandfather.

Prices/select
Internationale keuze Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Pona, Deli, Bangalore India

Trailer - My Home at the Intersection
Amsterdam Fringe Festival - medialink