Visual artist and experimental filmmaker Jan Peeters (1978) lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. In his artistic practice, Jan Peeters currently focuses on so-called ‘iconotextual’ works: he merges words (and more precisely, texts that are set typographically) and moving images (with emphasis on filmic images) to form visual-textual unities of content, which cannot be categorised as either pure image or pure text. In these ‘reading films’ he brings together the languages of literature and visual art, without focussing necessarily on certain implicit elements of mainstream film, such as narration, acting or characters. He has taken part with his works in exhibitions and festivals in Belgium and abroad. His poetry films were selected at some major international poetry film festivals, such as International Video Poetry Festival (Athens), ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Münster/Berlin), Co-Kisser Poetry-Film Festival (Minneapolis), International Festival of Videopoetry by VideoBardo (Buenos Aires) and La Parola Immaginata by Trevigliopoesia (Italy).
directors: Paul Bogaert & Jan Peeters poet: Paul Bogaert poem 1: ‘onzekerheden 12’ (uncertainties 12), from: Ons verlangen (Our Longing), published by De Bezige Bij Antwerpen, 2013. poem 2: ‘Een twee drie emmers…’, unpublished yet. editing: Jan Peeters footage: Color it clean (University of Illinois – Motion Picture Service, 1966) / Bacteria: Friend and Foe (Encyclopdia Brittanica Film, Inc, 1953), Prelinger Archives. sound: sound samples from freesound.org / music samples from Seeburg Background Music: Mood M 17A (1963) and Mood M 15B (1962). year of production: 2014 country of production: Belgium format: DV PAL aspect ratio: 4:3 (1.33:1) colour: colour sound: stereo runtime: 6 min 18 s
