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HAN VAN ACOLEYEN was born in Belgium in 1976, where she got a degree in architecture in 2000. During these studies she researched the expression of states of being, atmospheres as well as world-views by use of visual art and spatial structures. The theoretical part of her diploma thesis “De onvolkomenheid van de moderne mens” (The unfulfilldness of the modern human) concerned about modernist existential philosophies and their influence on architecture and how to express its ideology, of making the modern human feel fulfilled again, in architecture. The architecture of Mies Van Der Rohe was employed to exemplify this. The practical part of her thesis consisted out of the design of a museum of contemporary arts concerning the theme water in a city (Roermond, NL) where water plays a major role.

Since 2003 she lives and works in Berlin. 2008 she published an illustrated story “Lore, das Mädchen, das sich verloren wähnte”. She kept on developing her theme about the expression of the soul and completed 2011 a bachelor in judaic studies and publishing & communication science. Through these studies she deepened her research by combining it with language/communication and storytelling. She wrote her bachelor thesis “Die Funktion des Erzählens in Agnons ‘Ad Olam’” about the function of storytelling in post-modern hebrew literature, analyzing a short story dealing with (on an underlying level) the hasidic culture of storytelling after world war II.

2012 she became a member of the filmArche e.V., where she learned and teached for 6 years about editing, sound design and directing and deepened her theme even more with the dimension of storytelling in film.

Studies

• Architekur
• Judaistik, Publizistik- und Kommnikationswissenschaft
• Filmmaking

Notable Projects Selection

Meeresspiegel_2 min.34 climate short film

director, production manager: Han Van Acoleyen

– touring through Germany with KLAK Fahrradkino Summer 2018

Sindra _14 min. 50, fictional shortfilm about inner and outer realities, inspired by Jung’s Individuation Process

director, editing, animation, sounddesign: Han Van Acoleyen

kamera: Mireia Guzman, Zara Zandieh

Music: moldypark

Sindra – EP_a 5 track electronic music album by Moldypark

– published on Bandcamp

Eco’s Echoes – Sounds and Environment_a sound performance with The Awful Plastics

– 24.11.2017, Initiative Neue Musik e.V., Ausland, Berlin

 

Muell im Weltall_ 5 day workshop

– held at Campus Efeuweg Berlin, 7. Klasse

Fünfzehn Zimmer_32 min., documentary about a Hospitz in Berlin

director: Silke Schissler

editing: Rita Bakacs

sound design: Han Van Acoleyen

– screening at Dok Leipzig 2016

Die paar Jahre_30 min., documentary

director: Silke Schissler

sound design: Han Van Acoleyen

Dots of Memories_14min. 11, experimental documentary reflecting on home video material

director: Vincent Zegveld, camera: Sampo Lüttge,

editing and sound design: Han Van Acoleyen

– screening at Visions du Réel, Festival international de cinéma Nyon, april 2016

Verwesung_1min. 20, poetic animation

The interaction between humans and nature and its caricature as decay. Ode to a place.

– screening at NomadenKino Berlin, august 2014

This is about Senses and this is about Happiness_10 min., short film

We visit an elderly woman who, with childlike curiosity, explores the world in her little flat.

director: Rike Hoppe, script Léa Michel and Rike Hoppe, actress Victoria Pickett, Armin Eichhorn, Rike Hoppe: camera: Markus Koch, editing: Han Van Acoleyen and Rike Hoppe, sound at set: Sigrid Oberer, producer: Armin Eichhorn, production: filmArche e.V.

– screening at Achtung Berlin, april 2014. Special Mention in category ‘Best Film’.

– screening at 56. Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, oktober/november 2014

– screening at Kurzfilmtag, Berlin, december 2014

Omnium_theatre performance at ACUD, Berlin

based on novel “The third Policeman” by Flann O’Brien.

performer/director: Adam Read, video/animation: Thomas Brose, live sound design: Miriam Siebenstädt, Hen Lovely Bird, Moldy Horse (Han Van Acoleyen), set design: Dmytry Galanov, costumes: Olga Dumova, light design: Daniel Semke, january 2014

Space and Direction with Sound_2 hour workshop

– held on 16.9.2013 at the filmArche e.V.

Tausend diamond birds_a sound performance and collaboration between moldy horse (Han Van Acoleyen: vocals and effects) and cardinal veil (violin and effects)

This performance is an exploration of expressing human made structures decaying back into nature, rational forms falling apart into organic chaos. This is being translated into the audible by working with life improvised layering of voices and violin and by fragmenting, looping and sampling of recorded daily life sounds.

– live at QuEAR, das 2. transtonale ohrenfest, Berlin, august 2013

Connecting Video with Audio in AE_2 hour Workshop

– held on 25.3.2013 at the filmArche e.V.

Addis Abeba_10 min. 31, an experimental short film by Ceven Knowles and Han Van Acoleyen, 2010-2012

This short film is an experimental search for the process of narration, of conversation. Where does the conversation begins and where the dreams, the memories, the surroundings, the place …

– screening at Läns Museum in Jönköping, Schweden, march/april 2013

(IKFU internationell konstfilm) (in collaboration with Ceven Knowles)

– screening at Entzaubert, Berlin 2012

Primary Tones_2 min. 12, experimental short film

…finding expression in a scream. But who or what is expressing itself?

directing, editing, concept: Han Van Acoleyen, acting: Hen Lovely Bird, Claudia Frickemeier: sound: Han Van Acoleyen, Hen Lovely Bird

– screening at Nomadenkino, Berlin, august 2014

– screening at Kino Lichtblik, Berlin, January 2016

Cethor_15 min., video projection and performance

What if the world would dissolve into pixels and noise…

video projection, vocals and effects: Han Van Acoleyen, violin and effects: Cardinal Veil, Berlin, december 2012

2011

How to start a conversation with you_series of photo collage posters

– exhibited at 48 StundenNeukölln 2011, Berlin

2008

Lore, das Mädchen, dass sich verloren wähnte_(Lore, the girl that imagined herself to be lost), illustrated story

– published by Frieling-Verlag Berlin

Poster design

varies posters for bands, performances, albums

— auf Deutsch

HAN VAN ACOLEYEN, 1976 geboren, absolvierte 2000 ein Architekturstudium in Diepenbeek, Belgien. Während dieses Studiums untersuchte sie den Ausdruck von Seinszuständen, Atmosphären sowie Weltanschauungen mittels Anwendung von visuelle Kunst und räumlichen Strukturen. Der theoretische Teil ihrer Diplomarbeit “De onvolkomenheid van de moderne mens” (Die Unvollkommenheit des Modernen Menschen) beschäftigte sich mit modernistischen Existenzphilosophien und ihren Einfluss auf Architektur sowie mit der Ausdrucksform ihrer Ideologie, den Modernen Menschen wieder volkommen fühlen zu lassen, in Architektur. Die Architektur von Mies Van Der Rohe wurde dabei besprochen, um dies zu veranschaulichen. Der praktische Teil bestand aus dem Entwurf eines Museums für zeitgenössische Kunst zum Thema Wasser in einer Stadt (Roermond, NL), in welche Wasser eine grosse Rolle spielt.

Seit 2003 wohnt und arbeitet sie in Berlin. 2008 veröffentlichte sie eine illustrierte Erzählung “Lore, das Mädchen, das sich verloren wähnte”. 2011 absolvierte sie ein Bachelor in Judaistik und Publizistik. Innerhalb dieses Studium vertiefte sie ihr Thema durch die Kombination mit Sprache/Kommunikation und Geschichtenerzählen. Sie schrieb ihre Bachelorarbeit “Die Funktion des Erzählens in Agnon’s Ad Olam über die Funktion des Geschichtenerzählens in der postmodernen hebräischen Literatur an Hand einer Analyse der Kurzgeschichte Ad Olam, die (auf eine unterliegende Ebene) die Chassidische Kultur des Geschichtenerzählens nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg behandelt.

Seit 2011 verwirklichte sie einige Kurzfilme, Musikvidoes und Video- und Sound-Performances, in welche sie sich mit ihr Thema auseinandersetzt. 2012 wurde sie Mitglied der filmArche e.V., wo sie seitdem Video Editing, Regie und Sounddesign lehrt und lernt.

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