AND A SECOND LATER

A rare invitation into infinite timelines! And A Second Later is a short film programme and exhibition composed by the first-year Lens-Based Media students of the Piet Zwart Institute. It is a conversation between works at different stages that — a second later— reveal further questions, various paths and continuing ripples. The program fragments dreamlands, traces whispers and blends tides — a cross-pollination of shared excitement for each other’s work.

Lens-Based Media is a Master’s programme at the Piet Zwart Institute that focuses primarily on artistic and experimental lens-based practices (both still and moving image/animation) that embrace the use of artifice, formal and technical innovation, fictional strategies and other unconventional visual approaches to create new and meaningful visions of the world.

However fictional the worlds we create, we must take responsibility for their claims to truth.

Swan Song for Caserta
by Feline Hjermind
2025, 4 minutes, Netherlands
One Last round of applause.
A grandiose funeral before we let the garden rest.
Swan Song for Caserta is a haunted serenade to a leftover piece in the compost heap.
The animated short questions notions of value, memory and preservation through a portrait of the Royal Gardens of Caserta. The film traces over lush bushes, artificial waterfalls and statues frozen in time, in the highly controlled landscape of a baroque garden.
Based on Le Parc Royal de Caserte (1909), from the Eye Filmmuseum Bits and Pieces Collection, an archive for leftover film fragments, deemed too precious to throw away.

Who Saw The Deep
by Lillian Wolter Agostinelly
2025, 10 minutes, Netherlands, English
Who saw the deep is a critical reimagining of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh, one of history’s earliest literary heroes, claims a form of droit du seigneur, and regardless of his crimes the epic celebrates his transformation from rapist to just king. But can such a narrative go unquestioned?
Through a mix of archival footage, ritualistic performance and symbolic imagery, this work proposes ways of inverting narratives and of exploring alternative ways of representing sexual violence; ultimately imagining an epic with, well – a different ending.

Memories of my Father
by Enrico Piffer
2025, 10 minutes, Netherlands, English
Number, date, name.
Licence, head shot, stamp, address.
Signature, face and validity.
A folder of documents—the official way of describing a life, an administrative simplification of one’s history.
A history that is not mine only…

Riverlands
by Sofie Blom
2025, 10 minutes, Netherlands, English
Riverlands is a fantasy essay researching the spill of the forever chemical PFAS in the river Merwede, which poisoned the land, its fruits, and generations of breast milk.
Diving into these streams, the film encounters whispers of waters that reshaped the land with their floods, life and love born from the river and a mysterious cherry tree growing at its banks.
Using family footage and local archives, Riverlands tells a story of generations moving with the tides and the tales passed back and forth within these streams.

Lunar Gossip – Stitch Incoming
by Julia Schmidt
2025, 6 minutes, Netherlands, English
Lunar Gossip – Stitch Incoming is a short speculative video and the latest transmission from the Intersectional Ecofeminist Space Pirate Ship. It departs its narrative from the fact that the Apollo space suit was designed by Playtex, a company specialised in women’s bras and girdles. The video reframes NASAs sewing room as a place of civil disobedience, asking the speculative question: What if the space suit was actually not sewn to protect men from the moon, but in fact, the moon from men?

Pocky! Pocky! Pocky!
by Zhouzhou
2025, 4 minutes, China & the Netherlands
For my parting from my homeland, from the rivers and the mountains, and my dog Pocky.
Tracing the whispers of flowing streams, I see you.

The Hard Problem
by Öncü H Gültekin
2025, 3 minutes, Netherlands, English
Inspired by how smartphone cameras use AI to generate artificial moon images, the film visualizes this phenomenon through an evolving white point that transforms into a moon—exploring perception and reality through AI-generated voice-over narration

Red Giant
by Yuan Yuan
2023, 3 minutes, China, English
Red Giant takes cues from my childhood knowledge of celestial bodies, using it as a metaphor for the current social stratification and urban environmental challenges. This short experimental film explores the relationship between moving and still images, involving labor, entertainment, urban landscapes, and more. This exploration aims to express how individual and collective memory influence each other.

fragmented by necessity
by Anas Qadamani
2025, 3 minutes, Netherlands
One of those missing narratives –permanently fragmented by necessity

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