AboutPieter Swier studied film at Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) in The Netherlands.
After graduating he developed an interest in analogue filmmaking.
He works alone and is currently filming a series of documentaries and experimental films that focus on landscape, time, memory and the practice of filmmaking itself.
For a living he messes around in one of the oldest cinema’s in Holland (Luxor Theater) where he works as Chief Technician and Projectionist with digital, 35mm, 16mm and 8mm formats.
screenings / expo’s / courses
2015- Arts in the Alley / 24-10 (Brainwash Festival, Amsterdam, Holland)
2022- Landscape Elsewhere (EXPO) / 22-24-04 (Calm & Punk Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
2022- non-syntax Experimental Image Festival / 24-28-06 (Roof Light , Taipei, Taiwan)
2022- Super8 Festival / 29-10 (Earth + Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
2023- non-syntax Experimental Image Festival / 25-08 / 03-09 (Feb Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
2024- Luxor Art Cinema / Collaborative screening with Bram Ruiter / 20-04 (Luxor Theater, Zutphen, Holland)
2024- 8mm Workshop / 24-25-04 (Cibap vakschool voor vormgeving, Zwolle, Holland)
2024- Super8 Festival / 30-08 (Earth + Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
2024- ‘Inside the Piano Gallery‘ Musical performance by Margin Alexander to my series ‘Landscape as Landscape’ / 16-08 (Manhattan, New York, USA)
2024- non-syntax Experimental Image Festival / Restrospective Exhibition / 10 Films + Physical objects from my library / 11-16-10 (Roof Light, Taipei, Taiwan)