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. He is also an occasional projectionist at the Esker Film Society in Zwolle, mainly working with analogue film.
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)
2025- Screening of 9 films at Luxor Theater, Zutphen / 18-01 (Luxor Theater, Zutphen, Holland)
2025- Esker Film Society / Collaborative screening with Nathaniel Dorsky / 13-03 (Buitensocieteit, Zwolle, Holland)