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emilealmekinders@gmail.com
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Projects I have been involved with for a longer period of time
Tourist Trap
BONNE
Galerie de Schans
Fantastic Man
MENDO Books
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See some of my highlighted projects below
A short film that follows my friend and artist JOHANNES OFFERHAUS as he constructs a giant textile installation that stands 11 meters tall and 80 meters long. It’s about all the small gentle gestures that ultimately led to the construction of a massive work. Made together with my friends D.O.P and editor JOEP VAN DIEJEN, sound designer CAMIEL MUISER, colorist MILTON BROEN, and many more.
This film was selected bij NFF (Dutch Film Festival), Design Biennale Rotterdam, and showed as part of an exhibition at Galerie de Schans.
A short film that follows my friend and artist JOHANNES OFFERHAUS as he constructs a giant textile installation that stands 11 meters tall and 80 meters long. It’s about all the small gentle gestures that ultimately led to the construction of a massive work. Made together with my friends D.O.P and editor JOEP VAN DIEJEN, sound designer CAMIEL MUISER, sound recorder LYKLE TUINSTRA, colorist MILTON BROEN, and many more.
BOOKSHOP / BOOK CURATION
My bookshop at Warmoesstraat 67 inside of GALERIE DE SCHANS. It opened in the summer of 2022 and focusses on books that discuss matters of photography, art, design and literature. A main focus is books that are eather made by DUTCH publishers, DUTCH artists, DUTCH writers or DUTCH graphic designers.
DIRECTOR
Video Campaign for the BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and D.O.P. PIM PIMENTEL
Video Campaign for the BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and D.O.P. PIM PIMENTEL
DIRECTOR
Teaser for the BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and D.O.P. PIM PIMENTEL
Teaser for the BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and D.O.P. PIM PIMENTEL
DIRECTOR
Teaser for the BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and D.O.P. PIM PIMENTEL
Teaser for the BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and D.O.P. PIM PIMENTEL
DIRECTOR
Teaser for the BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and D.O.P. PIM PIMENTEL
Teaser for the BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and D.O.P. PIM PIMENTEL
DIRECTOR
Teaser for the BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and D.O.P. PIM PIMENTEL
Teaser for the BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and D.O.P. PIM PIMENTEL
DIRECTOR
Teaser for the BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and D.O.P. PIM PIMENTEL
Teaser for the BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and D.O.P. PIM PIMENTEL
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
I worked on these two issues of the amazing Fantastic Man magazine as an editorial assistent.
ART DIRECTOR / GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Campaign for TOURIST TRAP at Nachbar 15/11/25 together with my friend and photographer LOUIS OOMES.
ART DIRECTOR
I commisioned my friend and artist SHOTARO KITADO, who I met in a gallery when I visited JAPAN, to create the visuals for the BONNE 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY that was taking place at RUIGOORD and was made possible by CONVERSE.
Campaign for BONNE titled Gentle Gestures, about the typology of handshakes. Directed together with my friend GUUS KAANDORP.
Campaign for BONNE titled Gentle Gestures, about the typology of handshakes. Together with my friend and photographer Guus Kaandorp.
Campaign for BONNE titled Gentle Gestures, about the typology of handshakes. Together with my friend and photographer Guus Kaandorp.
Campaign for BONNE titled Gentle Gestures, about the typology of handshakes. Together with my friend and photographer Guus Kaandorp.
Campaign for BONNE titled Gentle Gestures, about the typology of handshakes. Together with my friend and photographer Guus Kaandorp.
Product Campaign for BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and photographer WOODY BOS.
Product Campaign for BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and photographer WOODY BOS.
Product Campaign for BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and photographer WOODY BOS.
Product Campaign for BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and photographer WOODY BOS.
Product Campaign for BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and photographer WOODY BOS.
Product Campaign for BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and photographer WOODY BOS.
Product Campaign for BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and photographer WOODY BOS.
Product Campaign for BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and photographer WOODY BOS.
Product Campaign for BONNE & CAMPER collaboration together with my friend and photographer WOODY BOS.
PUBLISHER / EDITOR / GRAPHIC DESIGNER
A book I made with my friend and photographer JAAP SCHEEREN. When JAAP his uncle MAARTEN passed at an early age, they found a box with drawings of futuristic cars under his bed. His nephew, JAAP, decided to fulfill his uncle’s silent dream of becoming a car designer, bringing one of his drawings to life as a forever-driving 3D model.
A dream that is going nowhere.
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ASSISTENT DIRECTOR
I worked on these four films as an assistent director to Shady El-Hamus, Ashgan El-Hamus and Jonas Smulders. In both pre-production and production, I provided close support to the directors, taking on a wide range of responsibilities to ease their workload, including assisting with rehearsals, casting, costume and art departments, and other essential tasks as needed.