Filmmaker, visual artist, (script)writer and teacher Ester Eva Damen
Education
- 2017-21 University of Amsterdam – Master of Arts – MA Artistic Research
- & Teaching degree in Art History
- 1999-00 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam – Master – Film/Video and Photographic Arts
- 1995-01 Netherlands Film Academy – Bachelor – Script writing and directing
- 1984-90 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam – Bachelor – Autonomous
- 2014-15 Alba-academie.nl – Coach Practitioner
Teaching, curating, advisor
- 2001-now Filmmaker/ visual artist/ (script) writer
- 2023-now Advisor Fonds Podiumkunsten The Hague, Netherlands
- 2020-21 Art(&-history) Teacher Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam – Amsterdam
- 2022-now Teacher Film/Art Cultura – Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2022-now Workshops Film/Art Cultuureducatie Amstelland – Amstelveen, Netherlands
- 2022- now Workshops Film/Art Cultuurpunt Aalsmeer – Aalsmeer, Netherlands
- 2017-now Curator, a.o. for several exhibitions in NDSM-Fuse – Amsterdam
- 2005-now
– Amsterdam
- Artistic Director – Cross-over projects, coaching, exhibitions, meetings.
- Workshops in Writing for Artists/ (Script)writing
- NDSM Tree House, Amsterdam
KHB Studios, Berlin
Can Serrat, Barcelona
Maumau, Istanbul
Cinetol, Amsterdam
SkyHighGravity studio, Amsterdam
Het Anker, Amsterdam
- NDSM Tree House, Amsterdam
- 1995-07 (Film)journalist Skrien magazine
- 1997 Assistant of the director Trust Theatre – Amsterdam – Director Erik van Zuylen
- 1996 Assistant of the director De Langste Reis (feature film) – Director Pieter Verhoeff, NL
- 1992-94 Staff W139 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
- One of the editors of Nummer, ‘traveling magazine’, W139, Amsterdam
Languages/ other
- English – professional
- French – good
- German – average
- Spanish – basic
- Frisian – basic
- Drivers licence B