Eline Jongsman

DOMINION uses generative AI to reimagine early 20th-century encounters between coloniser and colonised, merging missionary films with speculative cinema. The result is a techno-magical history that upends archival truth.

Eline Jongsma’s great-grandfather was known as “Crazy Gerrit.” This was a rather innocent nickname considering who he actually was: the ruthless, violent mayor of the town of Krommenie, Netherlands, during the Second World War, and a fanatical member of the NSB—the Dutch Nazi party. After the war ended, his children disowned him out of shame, and his great-granddaughter grew up unaware of his existence. But no secret can stay buried forever.