Tessa Joosse is a filmmaker and artist. She lives and works in Amsterdam. She was born in 1974 on the island of Tholen, The Netherlands. After her studies in sculpture and and installation art she made many art-installations and theater backdrops for different companies and venues amongst others for the Operadagen Rotterdam and Novembermusic. Her work leaned more and more towards cinema before she joined the postgraduate master in contemporary art and new media of Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains (Tourcoing, France). In 2010 she won the prize for best short film, at the international festival for environmental film, Paris, France. Her work has since been shown in many festivals and musea such as Sundance, Locarno Filmfestival, MuCEM and Palais de Tokio.

Screenings (selection)

Sundance Film Festival, Park City, USA
AFI/Discovery Channel: SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival, Washington DC, USA International Short Film Festival – Clermont-Ferrand, France
FID Marseille, Marseille, France
Festival premiers plans, Angers, France
Cannes film festival, short film corner
Film Festival Locarno, Switzerland
Tampere film festival, Finland
Milano Film Festival, Milano, Italy
European Short Film Festival at MIT, USA
Flicker fest, Sydney, Australia
Birds eye view festival London, ICA, BFI, England
Ankara international film festival, Ankara, Turkey
Pusan International Video Festival, Pusan, South Korea
Green vision Film Festival, st. Petersburg, Russia
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany
Short Film Festival Detmold, Germany
Interfilm, Berlin, Germany
Ambulante Film Festival, Mexico
Salem Film Fest, Salem, USA
International Film Festival Breda, Netherlands
Calgary International Film Festival, Calgary, Canada
Monterrey International Film Festival, Monterrey, Mexico
The Environmental Film Festival at Yale, NE, USA
Reel Earth Film Festival, New Zealand
La Cinémathèque Française, Paris
Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Brazil
Filmer le travail, Poitiers, France
Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema, la Coruña, Spain
Festival d’Hiver, Porto Alegre, Brasil

Exhibitions (selection)

MuCEM, Marseille – Vies d’ordures. De l’économie des déchets (catalogue)
Dutch Design Week –Eindhoven, Les Pays-bas, The Making of your World la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Le Fresnoy, mémoire de l’imagination Sugar Apple, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu City, South Korea
Cutlog art fair, New York, USA
Palais de Tokio, Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
Parc de la vilette, Paris, France, L’Oeil sur la rue
Buddha Enlightened to be, Bodhgaya, India
Sungkok Museum, Seoul, Korea, appearing, disappearing and cycles
L’Institut Français, Casablanca, Maroc. F.A.N.
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipeh, Taiwan, Di-D Stances
Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, South Korea, Single channel video III
Museum Il-min, Seoul, South Korea, Beyond Control
World expo, Shanghai, Urban Footprint pavillion, CityOneMinutes Lille
Le Fresnoy, France, Panorama 11 et 12
FIAC, Arte stand, Paris, France
Foam Lab Amsterdam exposition solo, on the nature of things
ICA, Londres, The one minutes, view points on the world
Gates, Fifth international conceptual project, Bitola, Macedonië (catalogue)
Centraal museum, Utrecht, Les Pays-Bas, de EEN minuten biennale Galerie VU, Quebec, Canada, Papier peint, exposition solo

Awards/Grants

2013 Josine de Bruyn Kops Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuur fonds
2012 Special jury prize, Artists film festival, Cutlog art fair, Paris, France 2011 Best film, das epische Musikvideo, Brechtfestival, Augsburg, Germany Golden label, for the theatre production Das Lied von der Erde, Brussels, Belgium Nomination Early Bird Award, International Film Festival Breda, Netherlands 2010 Best experimental film – Santa Cruz Film Festival, USA Grand jury prize, best film, festival L’Acharnière, France
Grand jury prize, best film, Festival TeleSorbonne, Paris, France
Best Short Film, Le Festival international du film d’environnement, Paris, France
Best film, Student jury award, Dialektus Anthropological Film Festival, Hungaria
Prix de la représentation du monde du travail – Festival L’Acharnière, France
Nomination A38-Production Grant, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany Honorable mention, coup de cœur, Festival Le Réel en Vue, Thionville, France 2009 Honorable mention – Festival Mediaschool Lodz, Poland
Peter Paul Peterich fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuur fonds Fonds BKVB, FondsLive, CityOneMinutes (TheOneMinutesFoundation) 2008 Josine de Bruyn Kops Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuur fonds
2007 Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Basisregeling La ville d’ Amsterdam section Noord, Projectsubsidie
2002 Bourse du Conseil des arts et des lettres, Quebec, Canada Nomination one minute awards

Residencies

2019 Finis Terrae, Ouessant, France. 2015 Poitiers film festival, résidence composition de musique de films
2011 La Pommerie, national park Plateau Millevache, France
2002 Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes, Centre Meduse, Quebec, Canada

Teaching

2017 – now : Tutor Transmedia, Haute Ecole Libre de Bruxelles. Brussels, Belgium 2015 – now: Guest tutor, Environmental film, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden 2002- now: developer and teacher media studies for children and highschoolers

Education

2008-2010 Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France, avec félicitations du jury 1997-1999 MA, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, les Pays Bas
1002-1997 BA, Royal academy for the arts, Den Bosch, les Pays Bas