Vanitas (2021) with Erika Roux – 17:38, HD 16:9, single channel

"Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity."
(Eccl. 1:2; 12:8)

‘Vanitas’ portrays four, unemployed characters in the future: a singer, a what-naut, a gamer and an office building. Revolving around the characters’ observations, it wonders about the transient and often meaningless seeming nature of human activity.

The video was shot in an empty office building situated in the center of a Dutch city. It uses science fiction inspired methods to discuss the relation of human lives to technology and disappearance or redefinition of work, as well as timeless matters such as loneliness, alienation and mortality.

The dialogue is inspired by the lives of the video makers and actors, as they get transferred into a fictive and speculative reality.