“I’ve really started growing into myself over the past four years,” says Sep Friesema. And it shows in her work for the Moving Image bachelor's programme. “I now have an artistic practice that truly belongs to me. No one else on earth sees or makes things the way I do. That’s something I know now.”
Sep graduates from the bachelor Moving Image at AKI ArtEZ Academy of Art & Design. In her graduation film, she blurs the line between human and nature. “I think the concepts of human and nature are the same – or at least indistinguishable in the end.”
During her studies, Sep explored photography, sound design, performance and video: “At AKI, I got to try out a lot of things.” For her finals films, Sep worked with real footage of nature, edited into new, unreal places.
I like working with images that feel familiar and at the same time a bit uncomfortable. Where you’re not quite sure what you’re seeing.”
The film is above all an invitation. “I hope people have a kind of new perspective on the world after watching. Or at least think: oh yeah, this exists too. That it helps to see beauty in nature, which I think is important in these times.”
After graduating, Sep just wants to keep making: “I started making art and I can’t stop. I still want to tell so many things. That’s my plan: to just make, think, talk and live as much as possible.”
