Amanda van Hesteren If All This Was Fiction: Films 2016–2023
Film program in the cinema of the Kölnischer Kunstverein, curated by Nicholas Tammens
Opening: Friday, 12.4., 6 pm 6:30 pm Screening of films 7:30 pm Talk between Amanda van Hesteren and Nicholas Tammens 8:30 pm Repeated screening of films
Amanda van Hesteren – If All This Was Fiction: Films 2016–2023 at the Kölnischer Kunstverein is the first public presentation of films by Dutch film-maker Amanda van Hesteren (b. 1991, Amsterdam) in Germany. The program shows the development of van Hesteren’s methodology as a filmmaker over the past eight years through four film portraits focused on lovers, family, and friends.
Amanda van Hesteren began to make films at the age of 23, when she took a camera with her on holiday. “I took my camera because I wanted to find stories,” she says. “I knew that I would be able to go onto the street and find them”. In the eight years since, van Hesteren’s camera has come to substitute multiple perspectives: her own gaze, that of her subjects, and the gaze of a stand-in and outside witness.