Studio Prospero

Catalog

• Zodiac Dad
  Spanning more than a decade, this documentary examines a cassette tape from 1977, incomprehensible horoscopes, father-son relationships, karma and lost souls.
• Zeezand
  Audio walk on the island of Schiermonnikoog exploring the relationship between humans and nature. The work combines natural soundscapes, personal stories from island residents, and reflections on nature, time, and change.
• X
  This work explores the uneasy ambiguity that followed: the point at which roles begin to blur—where the stalker becomes the victim, and the victim, in turn, becomes the stalker.
• Toendra
  Short audio stories that sound like deranged fairy tales or a tragicomic film, nothing is played or made up.
• Thuiszitters
  In the Netherlands, around 14,000 young people are staying at home while they are actually supposed to be attending school. A large proportion has been out of school for more than three months, and sometimes even for years.
• Steenpaal
  Steenpaal is the story of Luuk Peeters’s courageous, yet somewhat preposterous, attempt to save humanity. It features leaking radio signals, a Spanish Water Dog and a few pints.
• Spraakmakers
  Audio stories for a theatre tour that weave thought-provoking reflections on the modern world with the richness of classical music.
• Prosperdorp
  An audio essay on prosperity and happiness in Prosperdorp, a small village on the Belgian–Dutch border.
• Postcards from the continent
  Film bricolage of documentary observations, field recordings, micro essay’s and sound design.
• Pocket-sized worlds
  A visual and acoustic investigation into microscopic constructions shaped by bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites.
• Plots
  Plots is a radio podcast featuring unusual but true stories centred around a specific theme. Short stories from real life that touch the heart and make you think, that leave you speechless or make you laugh out lo
• Piepelotje
  Location based audio work about worker bees and holm oaks.
• Paradiso
  An audio tour exploring one of the longest-running contemporary art projects in the Netherlands: the stained glass windows of the iconic pop temple Paradiso in Amsterdam.
• ONSbank
  Series of videos for ONSbank, focusing on helping young people move towards a debt-free future.
• North
  This mosaic documentary follows a journey from the Middle East to the northernmost point on Earth, tracing not a fixed destination but an evolving idea.
• M. de Fontgibu & the plum pudding
  This is the unlikely story of Emile, who has eaten plum pudding three times in his live and came across a certain M. de Fontgibu each of those times. 
• Look
  Interactive audio work exploring differences in eye contact. Using biofeedback, participants experience the subtle effects of looking at—or avoiding—the gaze of others.
• Krot of Kans
  Artistic-social research on the economic downturn in rural Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. Motif is the enduring game that the wind plays with drifting sounds, the constantly disappearing and emerging sounds.
• Kolk
  Global warming is a rearrangement of life, whether we welcome it or not. In this documentary we let ourselves drift along with different ocean currents and hear various stories about this reshaping of life.
• Kathedraal van Staal
  An artist, Wim van Sijl, passionately fights to save the old arch bridge. While authorities see it as infrastructure, he sees it as something far more meaningful and worth preserving.
• Het leven een gebruiksaanwijzing
  Audio documentaries for a series that explores the everyday questions people grapple with, yet for which no simple or ready-made answers exist.
• Föhnkrankheit
  This work examines the wind as a force of constant change, vitality and instability. The title derives from a Swiss condition associated with the fierce Alpine wind.
• Flotsam – Zeedrift
  A meandering audio story of things washed ashore. Does the sea offer gifts to the land? Or does it spit out what it doesn’t need?
• Een project voor het leven
  Art is suffering—even for the client. A radio documentary about one of the longest-running contemporary art commissions: the stained-glass windows of Paradiso by artists Berend Strik and Hans van Houwelingen.
• De Grote Kunstshow
  An audio collage for a theatre tour showcasing highlights from artist Bas Kosters’ multidisciplinary body of work.
• Calling E.T.
  A cinematic thought experiment: what if we make contact with our galactic neighbours? Should (or can) we speak as one world?
• Burger Buttplug
  This audio documentary explores the challenges faced by a number of artworks as they navigate public spaces.
• Babel
  A journey along public bookcases, unfolding through conversations on untranslatable feelings and persistent threads that bind us across languages.
• Automat
  We often talk to the apparatuses that surround us. But they seldom reply. Machines who do are fascinating. A visual exploration of talking machines.
• A night with Michael
  This short film trails a devoted circle of fans through a single night, gathered beneath the hotel window of King of Pop.
• 25/01/95
  Film essay about the moment the world came closest to its end. What sort of weekday would we have entered eternity on?
• 1.5 m cultuur
  The COVID-19 lockdown marks the start of a long period of staying home. How do you survive as an artist without a stage?
• 1 minuut
  Audio works for the 1 Minuut and 1 Minuutjes series. Super short audio stories from real life: true radio fairy tales that move, amaze and disrupt.