Leendert Pot

Stichting Geelprodukt

BIOGRAPHIE

The work of award winning director Leendert Pot is characterized by a subtle interplay between private feeling and shared emotions. He makes experimental shorts and documentaries. His cinematic films are personal with an urge for social issues, beauty and astonishment. He is an independent filmmaker since 1989. His credo is: look at my films and you'll know me. His main films include: • Anne & Jean-Paul, our world The world Sister Anne (Down Syndrome) and Jean-Paul (Fragile-X) 2017 • What's Unfolding dance short with choreograph Hillary Blake Firestone 2013 • Heimat short film poem based on the poem by Ulrike Almut Sandig 2012 • If you can, you should ice skating on natural water 2011 • Boobells a multi media art project of Kaat Schulte 2009 • The Oarsmen a cinematographic experience of oarsmen 2009 • Boobells film and live art performance by Kaat Schulte 2009. • My Opportunity co-production UNICEF Ethiopia, Licht für die Welt & ETV 2008. • Ambition co-production UNICEF Ethiopia, Licht für die Welt & ETV. 2008. • She brings money about Micro finance in Ethiopia. Co-production Oxfam-Novib. 2006. • Motioning 5 film-poems in Dutch Sign Language: Polder, Strand, Fire, Reflection & Growth. 2005. • ‘Cristina Branco, A Minha Portuguese fado-singer Cristina Branco. 2004 • Just deaf. A film about a deaf boy, attending a normal school. 2000. • Ithaca. a film poem based on Constantine Cafavy. 2000. • Eloquent eyes A young woman who speaks with her eyes. 1999. • Broken past the past of the director’s mother, showing Europe, a road movie 1997. • Saudade World-music of the Rotterdam Conservatory. 1996 • Let's go faster Dutch top feminine cycling. 1993. • Choir power conductor Geert van Tijn wants to sing with 80,000 people 1992. • Embraced by the tango Dutch bandoneon-player Carel Kraayenhof 1991. • Anne is one of us the upbringing of his sister with Downs Syndrome 1989.

FILMOGRAPHIE