PROJECTS
(finished and in-progress)
THE GREAT ESCAPE (of three geraniums)
STOLP
Forest of the Weird
PATANIA
Drie geraniums op een vensterbank
The West Flemish Pub Experience
Shinrin-Yoku VR
The Infinite Monkey Theorem
Floral Dance


The Great Escape centers around the three geraniums living on Patrick’s windowsill who are dying of boredom. When they steal Patrick’s smartphone and connect to the outside world through social media shit goes down and the titular ‘great escape’ comes within grasp of their tiny leaves.  

Produced by Animal Tank with support of the Film Fund Luxemburg, Flemish Audiovisual Fund, Belgian Tax Shelter and DeAuteurs.

Selected for Venice Immersive 2025, Film Fest Gent 2025, Art*VR 2025, Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2025, Kortfilmfestival Leuven 2025, Animateka 2025, IFFR 2026, Film Festival Oostende 2026 years, Animation First 2026, Lux Film Festival 2026, Kaboom 2026, Beijing Film Panorama 2026, GoShort 2026, Zlín Film Festival 2026, Kaohsiung Film Festival 2026, Aesthetica 2026.

   Patania is a game inspired by the adventures of real-life deepseabed mining robot Patania II from GSR. The robot got lost at sea during tests in April 2021 and was only recovered 4 days later. This game speculates about what Patania had going on during those days, accompanied by the sound of Annelies Van Hijfte and Jo De Geest.  

STOLP

STOLP is another collaboration between Annelies Van Hijfte and Joren.  This new VR opera experience is a twenty-minute immersive performance in which the audience finds themselves in a large, palatial greenhouse. They follow a humanlike waterdrop who haunts the greenhouse in self-isolation and tends the plants around her. At one point the space gets disturbed by outside elements, but the more violently the woman resists them, the more the glass walls begin to crack, compromising her internal struggle to keep her safe, enclosed world intact. Eventually the greenhouse opens up, and the woman, together with the plants, embraces the inevitable change.

The amazing pastel visuals of the experience are being developed by animation artist Juliette Pons.

Currently in development with support from the Flemish Audiovisual Fund, produced by Pimple Productions.




The Infinite Monkey Theorem states that, given an infinite amount of time, a monkey hitting random keys on a typewriter will produce any given series of letter combinations, including major works of human literature. Being an old philosophical concept, we have one guy to thank for dragging monkeys into it: Émile Borel, a french statistics mathematician. In his work he brings up the monkeys on typewriters, in an attempt to illustrate how absurd this idea is. He tried to explain that in large collections and with slim chances, theoretical possibilities become practically impossible. Meaning: in our finite universe, with a finite supply of monkeys, typewriters and time, no primate will ever type out any major work of human literature by accident. Alas, the image of a monkey at a typewriter was so grand, that it proliferated through western pop culture as an iconic image and people only remembered the theoretical part...

But what if these theoretical monkeys eventually find out their work will bear no practical fruits? How will they react? With despair? Rebellion? Lethargy?

Let’s find out.
























Welcome.

You are now a seasponge.

You have no central nervous system.

You have no stress.

You are enlightened in all the ways Buddhism prescribes.

But that is trivial, because as a seasponge you are beyond enlightenment.

You are just there, you filter seawater, you grow, release spermatozoids and that’s about it.

It is amazing and you can’t even be bothered.

Those 90% of undiscovered sea creatures, never before seen by the human eye just pass under your nose.

But then a robot arrives and tells you he is there to take all the manganese nodules away.

DEEPSEA BED MINING STRIKES.

All sea life is doomed.

But far away, on land, a single, somewhat naive artist sets out to do what no one thinks of:
He’s making a backup of all undiscovered sea life.
An absurd endeavour, because there are still more then 13 million creatures out there to be discovered.
But he thinks it is like Pokémon in God mode and he likes a challenge.

Gotta backup them all.

This is FOREST OF THE WEIRD.