Collecting Is a Disease

Running time: 15’

Production: NL 2014

Geert Verbeke sold animal food. He was selling a lot, so he established and developed a transport company. One day he sold off the company equipment that was dispensable and kept what could be useful in his new life: the life of a collector and exhibition arranger. Since 2007 he's been running a foundation, collecting chiefly surreal Belgian collages and assemblages. In his own words: “Surrealism is typically Belgian. It's an integral part of us.” Inspired by the nature of the collection, the place of exhibition, and the collector's personality, Kuba Szutkowski created his documentary, which takes us to a place that combines the surrealism of nature, art, and the industrial.

Authors:

  • Kuba Szutkowski
    Was born in 1982 in the Polish capital: Wasaw. When he was six moved to The Netherlands. At the University of Utrecht, he studied psychology and later at the University of Tilburg he earned his master's degree in philosophy. In 2009 he graduated as an audiovisual designer at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. During his studies he produced the short “Some things are really simple” (IFFR, NFF, nominated for NPS New Arrivals). Kuba’s working career started as first and second AD for television drama and shorts. Together with celebrated actor Dragan Bakema he started the film and tv production company Popov Film Rotterdam in 2009. Together with Ro Theatre and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen he produced and co-directed the absurd art tv show “Boijmans TV.” He was the director and producer of various documentary and fiction shorts selected by festivals like INTERFILM Berlin, Kasseler Dokfest and national and local broadcasters in The Netherlands. In 2015 Popov Film will be releasing its first feature film Tiger Award-winning artist Erik van Lieshout. 
     
    Filmography: 
    Collecting is a disease (2014)
    WERK by Erik van Lieshout (2014)
    Sarkis – Ballads (2012)
    WIL by Sander Burger (2012)
    Boijmans TV (2010)
    Amplify me to the Moon (2009)
    Otto Normalverbraucher (2008)
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