Eline Jongsma

Eline Jongsma is a Dutch film director and artist. She is one half of the award-winning filmmaking duo Jongsma + O’Neill alongside Kel O’Neill.^[1]

Life and career

At 16, Jongsma served as a model for a photo in Andres Serrano’s “History of Sex” series.^[2] She studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and exhibited her photographic work at the Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam.^[3]

Jongsma began collaborating with husband Kel O’Neill in 2006 while attending an artist residency in Prishtina, Kosovo.^[4] The two served as the two-person directorial and production crew of Empire, a series of non-fiction video installations about the traces of Dutch colonialism in ten different countries.^[5] The project’s world premiere took place at The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2012 and its US premiere took place at Lincoln Center as part of the New York Film Festival in 2013. One of Empire’s video installations was adapted to the internet at the POV Hackathon. POV released a full version of the project in 2014, and in 2015, this adaptation was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy in the category New Approaches: Documentary Film.

Jongsma and Kel O’Neill won the inaugural Tim Hetherington Trust Visionary Award in 2015.^[6] They used the award’s prize money to help produce their follow-up to Empire, The Ark, a VR documentary about the last three Northern White Rhinos on earth.^[7][8] The Ark had its world premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival in the Storyscapes section.^[9][10] O’Neill and Jongsma’s other work includes Exit: A Mobile Guide To The Apocalypse, which was an Official Selection in the Future of Entertainment section of SXSW 2016.^[11]

Filmography [Director]

• The Ark [2016] [co-director, with Kel O’Neill]
• The Empire Project (2012) [co-director, with Kel O’Neill]
• De transformatie van Genesis P-Orridge (2008) [co-director, with Kel O’Neill]

External links

• Jongsma + O'Neill
• http://sinisterhumanists.tumblr.com/press
• The Women of SXSW: Empire Director Eline Jongsma | Filmmaker Magazine

References

1. Padley, Gemma. "Tim Hetherington Trust unveils new award shortlist". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
2. "Cookies op Trouw.nl". www.trouw.nl. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
3. "Foam_Public Space - 'Oase' in Amsterdamse Vondelpark - Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam : Expositie / Exhibition at GALERIES.NL". www.galeries.nl. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
4. Martin, Michael (Winter 2007). "Citizen Kel". V Magazine. Pg. 78: Visionaire Publishing.
5. Siegel, Hal. "Ten Questions for Eline Jongsma & Kel O'Neill of Empire". POV's Documentary Blog. PBS.org. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
6. "Tim Hetherington Visionary Award gives £20,000 grant to experimental conservation documentary". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
7. Bernstein, Paula. "This VR Film About the World's Most Endangered Animal Needs Your Help". Indiewire. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
8. "A Virtual Reality Farewell to the Last White Rhinos". GOOD Magazine. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
9. "With 3 of These Rhinos Left, Here's a Chance to See Them Up Close". TakePart. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
10. "Storyscapes Tribeca". Tribeca. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
11. "Cinematic Apocalypse: Storytelling for Smartphones". SXSW Schedule 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-24.