Love-22-Love
Love-22-Love is an ode to art. The creation of art is filmmaker Kooijmans' raison d'être yet it also drives him to deep despair, depression and eventual psychosis. As Kooijmans’ turns the camera on himself, unbearably raw archival footage documents how the depression pulls at him, or the psychosis makes him unrecognizable to himself. Love-22-Love is a deeply personal film that is, above all, a search for self-love and a declaration of love to his wife.
Jeroen Kooijmans is a Dutch artist. In 1995 he graduated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Since then he has lived, worked and exhibited in many places all over het world.The fundamental nature of Kooijmans’ work is optimistic, yet the dark side of life is not ignored. Wonderfully simple films exist alongside complex installations of video projections combined with sound and architectural elements. In 1998 Jeroen Kooijmans was awarded the NPS Cultuurprijs and in 2007 he won the Impakt Beam System Award. In 2001/2001 he was part of The International Studio Program of the PS1/MoMa in New York. As artist in residence Kooijmans was associated with the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture in 2010. In 2013/2014 he worked as artist in residence with the Instituto Buena Bista Curaçao.
