Ciska Meister (they/she)
> about and contact
> about and contact
> contact:
email: ciskamei@gmail.com
vimeo
> about:
along the lines of film, video and other forms of moving image.
Ciska Meister (1998) is a filmmaker and artist, based in the Netherlands, who is tragically/fortunately chained to an incessant need to challenge the implications of the genre and medium they work within. Their work is characterised by a hopeless devotion to a playful yet earnest approach, in which they repeatedly find themselves asking unanswerable questions (seldom coming to incontestable conclusions) and dissecting perceived paradoxes (which tend to remain ambiguous). Thematically their work touches upon matters pertaining to the ethics of documentary filmmaking, community-based representation and the calibration of individual queer identities within a larger discourse.
> about:
along the lines of film, video and other forms of moving image.
Ciska Meister (1998) is a filmmaker and artist, based in the Netherlands, who is tragically/fortunately chained to an incessant need to challenge the implications of the genre and medium they work within. Their work is characterised by a hopeless devotion to a playful yet earnest approach, in which they repeatedly find themselves asking unanswerable questions (seldom coming to incontestable conclusions) and dissecting perceived paradoxes (which tend to remain ambiguous). Thematically their work touches upon matters pertaining to the ethics of documentary filmmaking, community-based representation and the calibration of individual queer identities within a larger discourse.
Activities:
> Grants:
- Stichting Bekker la Bastide - Production Grant ‘A Place Where Reality Lies’ - 2022
- Gemeente Rotterdam - Post-production Grant ‘The Ozard’ - 2024
- CBK Rotterdam - Impuls en Verdieping, Research grant for ‘Speculative Documentary’ - 2024
- Teledoc Campus - Development Grant - 2024
> Screenings and awards:
Audiostory performance “Anzichtkaart van wat ik verzuimde te vertellen”:
- Theater Rotterdam, 2024
A Place Where Reality Lies:
- Official Selection, Screening and Winner ‘Beste Opstromer’ Tegenstroom Filmfestival (Belgium, 2023)
- Screening GRRL Haus Cinema (Berlin, 2024)
- Official Selection and Screening Open Doek Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands, 2023)
- Official Selection and Screening Nederlands Film Festival (Netherlands, 2022)
- Screening Zwarte Gat Filmfestival (Netherlands, 2022)
- Screening VERS - De Spiegel van de Maker (Netherlands, 2022)
- Screening Afstudeerfestival - Willem de Kooning Academie (Netherlands, 2022)
- Selection ‘Makers van Morgen’, 2doc
A Pathetic Effort:
- Screening European Media Arts Festival (Oberhausen, Germany 2019)
- SWITCH Festival (Rotterdam, 2019)
Hide and Seek:
As part of "ZOOMSCAPE", "Hide and Seek" was shown at:
- Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa (PT)
- Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Art (CN)
- Betty Jane, Amsterdam (NL)Dortmunder U (DE)
- East China Normal University, Shanghai (CN)
- Mu, Eindhoven (NL)
- Museum Hilversum (NL)
- Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (NL)
- De School, Amsterdam (NL)
and was a winner at The One Minutes International Competition 2020, China.
> Press:
- Guest on Gallery Noise - 2023
- Interview Mister Motley (2023)
- Interview Filmkrant (2022)
- Interview 2doc (2023)
- Interview Vers Magazine (2022)
> Residencies:
- Joya:AiR Arte y Ecología - 2023
- Joya:AiR Arte y Ecología - 2024
> Grants:
- Stichting Bekker la Bastide - Production Grant ‘A Place Where Reality Lies’ - 2022
- Gemeente Rotterdam - Post-production Grant ‘The Ozard’ - 2024
- CBK Rotterdam - Impuls en Verdieping, Research grant for ‘Speculative Documentary’ - 2024
- Teledoc Campus - Development Grant - 2024
> Screenings and awards:
Audiostory performance “Anzichtkaart van wat ik verzuimde te vertellen”:
- Theater Rotterdam, 2024
A Place Where Reality Lies:
- Official Selection, Screening and Winner ‘Beste Opstromer’ Tegenstroom Filmfestival (Belgium, 2023)
- Screening GRRL Haus Cinema (Berlin, 2024)
- Official Selection and Screening Open Doek Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands, 2023)
- Official Selection and Screening Nederlands Film Festival (Netherlands, 2022)
- Screening Zwarte Gat Filmfestival (Netherlands, 2022)
- Screening VERS - De Spiegel van de Maker (Netherlands, 2022)
- Screening Afstudeerfestival - Willem de Kooning Academie (Netherlands, 2022)
- Selection ‘Makers van Morgen’, 2doc
A Pathetic Effort:
- Screening European Media Arts Festival (Oberhausen, Germany 2019)
- SWITCH Festival (Rotterdam, 2019)
Hide and Seek:
As part of "ZOOMSCAPE", "Hide and Seek" was shown at:
- Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa (PT)
- Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Art (CN)
- Betty Jane, Amsterdam (NL)Dortmunder U (DE)
- East China Normal University, Shanghai (CN)
- Mu, Eindhoven (NL)
- Museum Hilversum (NL)
- Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (NL)
- De School, Amsterdam (NL)
and was a winner at The One Minutes International Competition 2020, China.
> Press:
- Guest on Gallery Noise - 2023
- Interview Mister Motley (2023)
- Interview Filmkrant (2022)
- Interview 2doc (2023)
- Interview Vers Magazine (2022)
> Residencies:
- Joya:AiR Arte y Ecología - 2023
- Joya:AiR Arte y Ecología - 2024