Eline Jongsma is a Dutch film director and artist. She is one half of the filmmaking duo Jongsma + O’Neill alongside

Kel O'Neill Kel O’Neill is an American film director, artist, and actor. He is one half of the filmmaking duo Jongsma + O’Neill alongside Eline Jongsma. Life and career Kel O’Neill grew up in Andover, Massachusetts. Both of his parents were officers ...

Life and career

At 16, Jongsma served as a model for a photo in

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’s “History of Sex” series. She studied photography at the

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and exhibited her photographic work at the Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. Jongsma began collaborating with husband Kel O'Neill in 2006 while attending an artist residency in Prishtina, Kosovo. 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. The project’s world premiere took place at The

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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

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in the category New Approaches: Documentary Film. Jongsma and Kel O’Neill won the inaugural

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in the Storyscapes section. 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

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2016.

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o-director, with Kel O’Neill''The Empire Project'' (2012) o-director, with Kel O’Neill*''De transformative van Genesis P-Orridge'' (2008) o-director, with Kel O’Neill

References

External links

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