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EST

2012


 

 

VISUALS AND STORY

Film production company with a focus on exploration and experimentation. Experimenting with sound and imagery, creating shorts, music videos, and now preparing a film with Leon Herbert as the leading actor.

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FELIX’ SUMMER BOX

short / 2020 / NL CAN

Production: Zero Landscape
Directed and Written: Martijn Rijnberg
Music: Vincent Fournier-Boisvert

“As an assignment for the parents, our daycare asked us to collect all objects that were important for our 3-year old son during the summer holiday and put them in a shoebox. These so-called summer boxes were used as an aid for the children to help them to vividly relate in the group about their experiences during the summer. I was thinking about a way to bring this box of objects alive in a film and to find a way to have the audience feel the emotions my son had during his holiday. As this idea grew, I contacted musician Vincent Fournier-Boisvert and asked if I could use his beautiful song ‘Un Mois de Bois Mort’ of the album ‘Mon Coeur est une Arme’ for this purpose. Being a side project, I have filmed this in a year or so, picking it up once in a while. It took patience creating the macro shots and seeing how the footage could be best combined with Vincents song. I loved to do the project, as I could do some of the stuff with my son, and it was always nice to see how the film slowly grew.”

AWARDS / SELECTIONS

INTERVIEWS

- Finalist Canadian Screen Award Qualifying 51st Annual USA Film Festival 2021
- Nominee BAFTA Qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2020
- Nominee Miami Short Film Festival 2020
- Official Selection Academy Awards® Qualifying Leuven International Short Film Festival 2020
- Official Selection 2020 BAFTA-Cymru Qualifying Carmarthen Bay Film Festival (CBFF)
- Finalist Lonely Wolf: London International Film Festival 2021
- Official Selection 2020 The Valley Film Festival
- Official Selection Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival Online 2020
- Finalist 2020 Around International Film Festival Amsterdam
- Semi-Finalist 2020 Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival
- Honorable Mention 2020 Film Los Angeles Film Awards
- Semi-Finalist 2021 Dumbo Film Festival

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RICHARD

short / 2018 / NL UK

Production: Zero Landscape
Directed and Written: Martijn Rijnberg
Music and Sound Design: Roly Porter
Cast: Leon Herbert

To promote the novel 'Richard', director Martijn Rijnberg, musician Roly Porter, and actor Leon Herbert (Alien 3) joined forces to create a teaser that shows what the mind is capable of and how you can be caught up in your story. Roly Porter created a unique musical composition that together with Leon Herberts voice guides the viewer through a short existential journey. The novel tells the autobiographical story of the author M.M. Visser, in which her past experiences keep her from having a life of love. A bit like taking the red pill in The Matrix, she discovers that everything she believes in and stands for, is nothing more than a story to keep her going.

AWARDS / SELECTIONS

INTERVIEWS

- Winner Los Angeles Film Awards 2018
- Official Selection BAFTA Qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2018
- Honorable Mention Winner Los Angeles Movie Awards 2018
- Official Selection Glendale International Film Festival 2018
- Official Selection Nevada City Film Festival 2018
- Semi Finalist Miami Short Film Festival 2018

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GONNA STOP KILLING

Music video / 2015 / NL us

"Gonna Stop Killing" from the album 'Boy' by Carla Bozulich
Out now on Constellation Records:
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carlabozulich.com
Performed by: Carla Bozulich, Andrea Belfi and John Eichenseer
Directed and Written: Zero Landscape
Cast: Steven Lucke, Roy

PROMONEWS:

“Solemn yet beautifully shot, Martijn Rijnberg's video for Gonna Stop Killing by American singer Carla Bozulich is directly inspired from the song's lyrics. It explores a turning point in the existence of a hitman as he is retiring from his profession and ready to embrace a new life.

Some stylistic choices, such as the dark, earthy colour palette and the high-contrast shots - making for some blinding lights and morbid blacks - serve to drive the all-encompassing bleakness throughout. The wide, coffin-like dimensions of the video keep us close to the ground - and by allowing little space above the man's head- achieves a cloistered, claustrophobic effect.

It features Steven Lucke as the hitman – and a special mention goes to his close friend Roy, the senior parakeet.”

AWARDS / SELECTIONS

INTERVIEWS

- Official Selection 2016 Sydney Lift-Off Online Film Festival
- Official Selection 2016 Miami Short Film Festival
- Official Selection 2015 Cork Film Festival
- Official Selection 2015 HollyShorts Film Festival
- Official Selection BAFTA Qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2015
- Official Selection FirstGlance Film Fest Philadelphia 18
- Official Selection 2015 Indie Fest USA Film Festival
- Official Selection 2015 Minneapolis Underground Film Festival
- Official Selection 2015 Portobello Film Festival

Directors Notes

Promonews

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A WORLD WITHOUT CINEMA

TRAILER / 2014 / NL UK

Directed and Written: Zero Landscape
Music: Roly Porter
Sound Design: Studio Takt
Voice Over: Lisa Sove

Cast: Jan de Vries, Steven Lucke

Post-Production: Zero Landscape, Cyberfish
Compositing: Cyberfish, Zero Landscape
Technical Assistence: Cyberfish
Location: Playable Gallery (Henk Zielman)

Shot at the EYE Filmmuseum..

From sci-fi to cult, anime to fantasy and horror to experimental: the Imagine Film Festival, formerly known as the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival (AFFF), celebrates its 30th edition from 9 to 18 April 2014 at the EYE Filmmuseum.

AWARDS / SELECTIONS

INTERVIEWS

Film Shortage

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KOLBAK HEADHUNTER

Music video / 2013 / NL BE

Download full soundtrack at soundcloud.com/kolbak
Starring Anne Gehring, Jan de Vries, Harold Pflug and Patrick Bassant

Inspired by JOY by Patrick Bassant
Song produced, arranged and performed by KOLBAK (Harold Pflug) (p) 2012
Song written by D. Bressanutti, JL Demeyer, P. Codenys, Richard 23
Publishing (c) 1988 Les Editions Confidentielles 

Video directed by Martijn Rijnberg and Harold Pflug
Edited by Martijn Rijnberg
Written by Martijn Rijnberg and Harold Pflug
Location - Patrick Bassant
Statue - PACIFIC by Nic Jonk

AWARDS / SELECTIONS

INTERVIEWS

- Wild Ace Award winner at the 2013 Las Vegas Film Festival
- 2013 Portobello Film Festival
- NFF Online Competitie van het 33e Nederlands Film Festival