Duration: 22:56 min
Experimental documentary
Sound mix: Michael Bucuzzo
Editorial advice: Wendelien van Oldenborgh

“For the past few years, I have been working on CRUSHFILM, a short film that emerged from a research 
into a crush that gradually turned into an attachment that could never fully exist.

Using the camera as a tool for reflection, I recorded memories, observations and moments that helped me
navigate an experience that was both intimate and destabilising. 

In CRUSHFILM, a seemingly innocent obsession becomes the catalyst for a tragic inner conflict,
exposing the fragile boundary between desire, projection and reality.


The film is scheduled to premiere in 2026, with events to be announced .

credits: Margo van de Pas

_{Chair with picture of Loor standing next to the chair, 2024
chair from family house, tripod, photo on aluminium
102,5 x 83 x 53 cm 
^{credits: Huib van Wersch}}

Family Table: everyone I remember sitting at our table, 2024
table from family house, wood and photoprints, 144 x 180 x 90 cm 
^{credits: Huib van Wersch}

Family portrait, 2019
cutlery, photographs, paper print, wooden slat, nails
21 x 34 x 3.5 cm
^{credits: Beeldsmits}

Loor has been born next to this nightstand, 2020
nightstand from family house, round metal bar, four screw eyes, iron wire, four screws, acrylic marker and photos on plywood
170 x 95.5 x 39 cm
_{Collection Joep van Lieshout}
^{credits: GJ v Rooij}

Photo of Paul sleeping / Photo of victim 32, Pompeï, 2024 (on show at Unseen Fair 2024)
Volledige titel: Foto van Paul die slaapt, vrijdag 24 juni, 18:54, 2020, Jan Lievensstraat (De Liefjes), Amsterdam en Foto van Slachtoffer 32, omgekomen tijdens de uitbarsting van de Vesuvius in oktober, 79 n. Chr, gipsen afgietsel van 16 maart 1957, gefotografeerd op 6 mei, 9:14, 2024, buiten Porta Nocera, Pompeï

^{In a series of diptychs, images are placed side by side. Rather than explaining, the pairing holds a tension between them.}

In the work above a photograph of a lover is paired with the plaster cast of a body found in Pompeii. The similarity in posture creates a precise but coincidental alignment, while the distance between the two remains intact, quietly pointing to the transience of the body and of life itself.

^{view booth Rosie’s Gallery w Niko Lee Gail Démoed en Esmée Bruins}