Jeroen Kooijmans' Documentary Love-22-love Screens in Dutch Cinemas
This month, Jeroen Kooijmans' documentary Love-22-love is being showcased in select theaters across the Netherlands and is also available online through Picl. The film intertwines personal footage with segments from Kooijmans' video projects, chronicling his journey after attending the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, his struggles with mental health, and the achievements of his wife, Elsbeth Diederix. It also reflects on the Twin Towers' fall during his time at PS1 MoMa in New York. Serving as a logbook, retrospective, love narrative, and a self-portrait of psychosis, the film features exchanges between two versions of Jeroen and concludes with a wedding scene, highlighting his affection for Diederix amid his persistent depression. The piece is authored by Maurits de Bruijn.
Key facts
- Love-22-love is a documentary by Jeroen Kooijmans screening this month in selected Dutch film theaters and online on demand via Picl
- The film combines private footage from recent decades with excerpts from Kooijmans' video works
- It documents his career after graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and his worsening mental health
- His wife Elsbeth Diederix is shown achieving parallel success
- The Twin Towers collapse appears while Kooijmans was in New York for a residency at PS1 MoMa
- The documentary's most compelling element is scrolling text messages in which Kooijmans communicates with himself
- Video works featured include Let's Say it's a Dance, After the Battle, The Carpet Told Me, The Healing, Floating Gardens, Castle in the Air, and Work
- In the closing wedding scene, Kooijmans says he is not happy and is mortified to be depressed despite so much love around him
Entities
Artists
- Jeroen Kooijmans
- Elsbeth Diederix
- Maurits de Bruijn
Institutions
- Gerrit Rietveld Academie
- PS1 MoMa
- Picl
- Mister Motley
- Dinamo
- Re_Nature
Locations
- Netherlands
- New York
- United States