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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

Pictures I'm tagged in

Pictures I'm tagged in

Wednesday, Feb 4, 2009 11:59PM / 9 pictures

My pictures

Halloween 2009

Monday, Nov 2, 2009 10:53PM / Standard Album
34 pictures / 817 views / 6 comments

Mijehof Nightmare

Halloween at Rik and Neely's place. Awesomeness ensued ...
Elf Fantasy Fair (The Netherlands)

Friday, May 1, 2009 4:57AM / Event
14 pictures / 554 views

We went to the Elf Fantasy Fair in the Netherlands to promote Reiki the Movie.
Life is an Art

Thursday, Jan 8, 2009 2:41AM / Standard Album
26 pictures / 1291 views / 8 comments

This was a teaser for a feature film we shot recently. Rik got me involved as DP/set photographer. It was a great set, great people and really a story worth shooting! I just hope we can gather the money we'll need.
Reiki reshoot

Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 10:04PM / Standard Album
22 pictures / 1552 views / 10 comments

Reiki - Reshoot.

Random Madness. Mostly at night. More to come soon!
Reiki shoot 2008 (new added 11 sept)

Wednesday, Sep 10, 2008 8:31AM / Standard Album
150 pictures / 4785 views / 17 comments
Xmas in Paris

Friday, May 30, 2008 6:53PM / Standard Album
21 pictures / 2412 views / 3 comments

pictures from the shoot of christmas in paris, a belgian movie.

(the black and white pictures are by Konrad Widelski, the camera operator, the others I stole from the sound people ;)
Me, myself and Eye (if I must)

Friday, May 30, 2008 6:31PM / Standard Album
5 pictures / 2711 views / 11 comments

pics of me by random people... bleh ;)
photoshop - try of sorts...

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:06AM / Standard Album
4 pictures / 749 views / 3 comments
Hommage to fantasy (to brother Wolf)

Sunday, May 25, 2008 9:22PM / Standard Album
70 pictures / 1808 views / 23 comments

None of the art in here is mine (which you can clearly tell by the fact that it's great art ;) but I still wanted to share it. I repeat, these pictures are not mine but belong to either the artists or the companies affiliates with these artists.

I hope you enjoy them.
The Blessing of Henry Mullin - Shortfilm (sreenshots and pics)

Sunday, May 25, 2008 6:54AM / Standard Album
38 pictures / 1726 views / 8 comments

Graduation project by Mathieu Depyudt, 2007, with me as DoP.
It was freezing; we had gales, snow, hail, rainand at one point the clap had frozen shut...

But we made it and I at least had a grand time!
Nature and animals

Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:06PM / Standard Album
28 pictures / 1536 views / 2 comments

Random pictures I made, either at home or during my travels...
Reiki

Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:01PM / Standard Album
19 pictures / 1197 views / 1 comment
Production pics Shortfilm - The Mirror

Thursday, Dec 27, 2007 12:13AM / Standard Album
5 pictures / 731 views / 4 comments

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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Occupation: Cinematographer
Gender: Female
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