Jesse Strikwerda

WWII veteran, Ray, is a self-help guru in the afterlife, guiding us though breathing exercises and spiritual release. A former Nazi air force headquarters turned 90s daytime talk-show studio becomes the unlikely setting for collective healing of deep personal trauma. Complicated symbols and histories mix into a singular filmic experience.

In Démontable, our domestic space turns into a world reminiscent of Gulliver’s Travels, invaded by miniature projections of the outside world. “A funny, playful film on the absurd relationship between daily life and global news. The level of media saturation we’re bombarded with creates an absurd distortion and distance between our daily routine and current affairs. Démontable explores this bizarre melange of realities by throwing the two worlds together: attack helicopters shred a newspaper, while a dinner plate suffers a drone strike. They’re a series of attempts to try and understand our world better by playing with its violent protagonists

'It Jonkje', a young cowboy in the Frisian pastures, notices that everything in his world is skewed and imagines that there must be something that's able to set everything right again. He starts his metaphysical quest for that uncertain thing which will provide him with peace.

“A bunch of red herrings is the second collaboration between artists Caz Egelie and Jesse Strikwerda. In this project, they explore new ways of combining theatre and visual arts with experimentation, participation and collaboration. A bunch of red herrings recounts history and art history, the malleability of identity, and it unravels ingredients and structures of a story.“