RatveldTV: Two Truths and a Lie
Produced collaboratively by the new curatorial team, together with artist and alumna Erika Roux.
Set in the year 2124, the futuristic film imagines the Gerrit Rietveld Academie as a floating campus on a boat. The plot follows two art students navigating the process of admission, completing assignments, and participating in the graduation show, all within one day and in the setting of the academy at sea. The episode expresses and enhances worries and concerns of current students, like the precarity of studying in a crammed, expensive European city and pokes fun at some art-school clichés. It evokes a perpetual lack of time, painting the picture of a frantic, quite literally unstable atmosphere on the boat where things get salty!
Starring: Pablo Cuerto Felgueroso Arocha, Polina Ertel and The Swedish Festivities Choir/Svenska Högtidskören (Sara Nygård, Aušrinė Trakanavičiūtė, Ina Felländer).
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The RietveldTV curatorial team 24/25 are: Saskia den Hartigh (DOGtime), Bjarke Fuglsbjerg (VAV), Lefteris Katsarakis (VAV), Sara Darle Olsson (Architectural Design).
Coordinators: Rabea Ridlhammer and Vere van Hal (Public & Projects).
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Erika Roux (FR) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in the Netherlands. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld academy in Amsterdam and the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. She was artist-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck academie in 2021/22.
Her practice encompasses video works, short films, multichannel video installations, and publications. She takes an intuitive, experimental, and DIY approach to cinematic tradition, moving fluidly between fiction, documentary, and the spaces in-between. Through a collaborative approach to film production, Erika interrogates established social structures, from the intimate dynamics of domestic life to broader formations of perceived national identity and belonging, considering how individuals may either break free from or comply with these frameworks. Besides her individual artistic practice, she currently co-runs WET, a video art collective based in Rotterdam.