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"The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives."

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Happy Easter/Ostara

Tuesday, Apr 26, 2011 2:35AM / Standard Entry

The wise ones do not seek
enlightenment,
but self-fulfilment;
And one day in that search
with a smile, they
will find themselves enlightened

Have a wonderful Ostara!

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Lost Soul

Monday, Apr 25, 2011 10:59PM / Standard Entry

soooo...

Here's a short and rather random teaser of the latest short I've been working on.

http://www.youtube.com/user/jorishorror#p/a/u/0/S0i1L3Sbx1s

This is just the raw footage with no more colour correction then upping the blacks for eerie and dramatic effect. The sole reason for this teaser to exist is the fact there were a lot of people most impatient to see some footage which resulted in this impromptu sequence.

Maybe it's got to do with the music as well, but I get giddy every time I see it, knowing this is visually the least challenging / Interesting scene. Prepare for some unadulterated awesome soon!

In the mean time, I'll give you some pics made by our reeled in volunteer Joris Van Hespen. And nice they are.

Our first night was, as they ever are, the hardest one. Troubles with the sound equipment, with the smoke machine and so on but after a two hours delay we finally were ready to shoot our first shot:

It's a horror movie with a whiff of mystery added to perfect the mix

And I have to say, I really like how the images turned out

Smoke just adds a whole new level of Doom and creepy... For this story, it was exactly what we needed.

Of course, getting the smoke (from one machine) to cover a very large area consisted of our SFX guy running around the pond and me following behind with the lasto lite (and I know this sort of use isn't in the manual) to divide it a bit. You have to admit, I do look awesome, don't I :D

Make-up effects! A spray of blood coming right up!

Next night and next location: a lovely little shed. It looked almost romantic... despite the horrors... Did you know Belgian body-bags are white?

Our poor lady.

Top shot. And yes, it was nearly as awkward as it looks. Also... rickety table...

Our Awesome camera man Stijn!

Day three: Opening scene. The Tunnel.
We've had to reshoot that entire day as we lost the footage due to techical problems. So these are merely a memory.

The Director!!! Meet the wonderful Joris!

On his director's chair...

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still kicking...

Monday, Apr 11, 2011 12:18AM / Standard Entry

I'm ALIIIIIIVE!!!

Sorry about the horrid length of my absence this time...

Been somewhat busy.

documentary in Jordan
feature in Holland
preparing a feature
looking for work

lol

anyway I do plan on elaborating on these projects a bit more but at this point... I kind noticed it's time to start cooking dinner...

to leave you all with a teaser
http://www.amsterdamheavy.com/

and also; for vanity and fun:

teehee :D

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Olden Golden I

Monday, Oct 25, 2010 6:01AM / Standard Entry

I recently found a gem in between my old VHS collection...
I knew I still had it somewhere and having such fond memories about it, even though I didn't remember much about the movie itself, it was even better then I thought it could possibly be.

"The Little Shop of Horrors"

The story tells of Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis), a florist assistant, who finds a very strange but lucky plant that feeds on human blood and as long as the plant thrives, so will Seymour's life. But as the plant grows too big for him to feed, the plant suddenly asks the rather naive boy 'feed me'. And so Seymour does.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcS5vg5O5pY&feature=related

Despite my fears of it being terribly dated, it charmed me beginning to end. The music was catchy and awesome, the characters endearing, amusing and scary (Steve Martin was gruesomely delightful as the sadistic dentist Orin Scrivello) and the overall mise-en-scene was well thought out and the animation of the plant was incredibly well done for 1986!

A real must see if you haven't already!

In the mean time...
"FEED ME!"

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGRN39oifsE

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Songs on Repeat

Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010 4:11AM / Standard Entry

Two songs that I recently discovered and have on repeat since then ;)

I really hope you like them! I'm sharing my goosebumps even if it's not Halloween yet lol

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWj5g4V4QKg

And also, much older but ever as good: Nina Simone's original Sinnerman

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn5tiuZU4JI

I know they're both completely different, so they might not both appeal to you but I hope at least one of these gems made you smile...

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Marie Olaerts

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I always feel strange having to introduce myself, as I would presume I’m a bit biased, but for you I’ll make an honest attempt at objectivity…...
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I always feel strange having to introduce myself, as I would presume I’m a bit biased, but for you I’ll make an honest attempt at objectivity…

Marie Olaerts (being ‘me’ in the third person) grew up in a small village in a small country with a great liking for action movies, SF and thriller/ suspense, dreaming of how it would be like to be on a set, not visiting, but actually doing something useful. And so, that dream in the back of her mind she ended up at the Rits, a Belgian school for film making, where she graduated in 2007 as a professional bachelor (option camera/ cinematography) with the short film ‘the blessing of Henry Mullin’ as cinematographer.

Ever since then she is working on different sets in different functions, but her true passion lies with cinematography. There is still so much to learn and try, enough to fill a lifetime she is happy to discover, and her vision altered by a film-focussed life and the things she saw; she loves the light that seems just a bit off to add to the scene.

Meeting new people and education opened her horizon to a much greater rage of films, especially the Asian cinema, of which ‘Hero’ is her favourite. Though she hasn’t had the chance to see as much films as she’d like, she’s striving to correct that in the near future.

Movies she holds in high regard are: Hero, Alien, The Crow, Darkness (for the mood of the film), Musa, The game, The usual suspects, Bin Jip, Old Boy …
The documentaries ‘Long Gone’ (http://www.longgonefilm.com/) and ‘Peuple Migrateur’ opened her eyes to the fact that this genre too can be beautiful to make and film-like to watch and Monty Python was like rediscovering the comedy genre all over again.
Nothing beats ‘The Holy Grail’.

Always having lived in the middle of nowhere; contact with nature is a necessity more then anything else and when she’s not on set she likes to roam forests, meet with friends and go to class (she’s been following Aikido since November 2007 and this has become a bit of a passion). Other then that, she likes to make photographs, read, draw and write.

… There’s not much more to say really. Hello world, this is me ;)

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Light is only meaningful in relation to darkness and it is the infinite play of these two opposites, where and how they meet and their relation to a certain moment in time that I seek, not to perfect, but to rediscover...
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