about

Pia van den Beuken is a Dutch filmmaker, illustrator and conceptual storyteller

 based in Rotterdam. She holds a BFA in Illustration from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (2018). 

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For Pia the world around her is one big documentary film. Everyone is playing a certain role in it and is in some way connected but they don't know this yet.

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In her work she follows her deep curiosity through illustration, film, interactive performances, animations, installations, rituals, public interventions and creative thinking. By experiencing her own storytelling, through living on a sailing boat, expeditions in nature, filming seaweeds with an underwater camera, travelling abroad and putting up a curious look at the world around, she comes up with refreshing perspectives to tell these stories.

 

For example, she gives children's workshops about weather phenomena by making a cinematic weather forecast or a cloud theatre play. she draws area maps like a comic strip in which the visitor has to imagine the small life of a plant seed and she is now busy illustrating a children's book about a sailing trip she made in 2019 across the Pacific.

 

She finds the fact that every person or non-person perceives the world the same, but experiences and explains it differently, interesting.

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