Movies: Edward Luyken

In the early 1980s, Edward Luyken had his own studio on the Lijnbaansgracht in Amsterdam. He also lived in the studio. In Celvast, diary images from that period are combined with shots of performances....

The film begins with negative images of the destruction or etching plates. In the following scenes, we see images of construction workers, (dance) performances, and the daily life of Luyken. Along the way we see positive colored images that include a...

Luyken reads aloud autobiographical texts, as we see images of a performance by Eve Heyningen as Ophelia. Around the lake are sixteen stones that represent sixteen people. We also see Luyken’s sons canoeing and skiing. The black and white images have...

Performance by Edward Luyken in his Paris home. Luyken wears overalls like those worn by German tank soldiers. First he plays with a kind of amulet, then he makes small objects by stacking and sliding together clumps of various sizes. This activity ...

Duality is the starting point for this collection of Luyken-like associations: his two sons at different locations perform small actions; signed a cross returns as three-dimensional shape; indoor and outdoor spaces. The soundtrack features the sounds...

Zero-One is a figurative animation film consisting of thirty short animations. Luyken consistently begins with a triangle. From this triangle, new forms arise that eventually revert back into a triangle. This is a primitive version of morphing, a tec...

The visual artist Luyken in his studio (in New York), in a stop-motion film in which he creates ephemeral works of art on a white wall, using paint, wood, string, and similar items. The image is always framed in the same way, and the soundtrack is lo...

Against the background of a white wall, Luyken films two performances. The images are interspersed with one another: a man and a woman are painted with white paint, while another couple is wrapped in paper and coloured with paint. The second part of...

Echelon begins with images of Luyken’s sons, who are hitting pieces of a sarcophagus. We then see images of performances that depict a disabled woman, followed by shots of wrecked trains. In contrast to these images of destruction are images from the...

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A filmed diary that documents the period that Luyken stayed in the United States. The film consists of three parts: a half-hour filmed in New York, a half-hour report of hitchhiking from the east to the west coast, and again another half hour in New ...

The filmmaker travels by train from France to Berlin. In six short chapters, we see the journey and the city. These are short still lives that remove the sense of anonymity from the everyday....

This film is composed of ten films, some of which originally intended for display on three screens at once; the first was Berlino-Milan-Lisboa ; a film about Berlin in the middle of Milan right and left of Lisbon; with three audio tracks, front, and ...

An evening of television is apparently reduced to a few minutes. The image is blue, with an occasional hint of red for contrast....