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Joram ten Brink
Born(1952-04-05)5 April 1952
Died20 February 2022(2022-02-20) (aged 69)
NationalityDutch
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam & University of Leiden
OccupationFilm director & Educator

Joram ten Brink (1952–2022) was a writer, film director and professor of film at the University of Westminster. ten Brink set up the practice-based PhD programme at Westminster in the early 2000s and led the University’s Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM).[1] [2] [3]

Life and career

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ten Brink was born in Israel soon after his parents moved from Holland. He returned to Holland to study for a BA in Musicology at the University of Amsterdam and an MA in Visual Anthropology at the University of Leiden, and then came to London to study film.[4] He began teaching at Harrow College of Art in the late 1980s and then at the University of Westminster when the two institutions merged.[5]

ten Brink led the ground-breaking AHRC project Genocide and Genre culminating in Joshua Oppenheimer’s feature documentary The Act of Killing, produced by ten Brink and their book ‘Killer Images: documentary film, memory and the performance of violence’.[6] [7] [8]

His films have been broadcast and theatrically released in the UK, USA, Holland, Israel, France, Germany and Spain. His work has been screened at international film festivals and museums, including the Berlin and Rotterdam film festivals and at MOMA in New York.[9] [10] [11]

Personal life

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ten Brink is survived by his wife Atalia, also a film maker and his daughter Lia Na'ama.[12]

Bibliography

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  • Killer Images: Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence 2013[13]
  • Memory and the Performance of Violence 2012, Columbia University Press - Docwest
  • Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch 2008[14] [15]

Filmography

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  • Journey Through The Night - Director 2000[16]
  • Red Call - Executive Producer 2018
  • The Abbey - Executive Producer 2016
  • P.O.V. - Associate Producer | Producer 2014 - 2016
  • The Look of Silence - Associate Producer 2014
  • The Act of Killing - Producer 2012. British Academy Film Awards 2014 - Best Documentary[17]
  • Man Who Couldn't Feel and Other tales - Director 1997[18]
  • Jacoba - Director 1988[19]

References

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  1. ^ "Joran ten Brink". CREAM. 20 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Joran ten Brink". World of Books.
  3. ^ "Genocide and Genre". Impact.
  4. ^ "Joran ten Brink". Netherlandsd Film Festival.
  5. ^ "Obituary". nahemi.
  6. ^ Killer Images by Joram Ten Brink (Author), Joshua Oppenheimer (Author). ASIN 0231163355.
  7. ^ "The Act of Killing". University of Aberdeen.
  8. ^ "Genocide and Genre". UK Research and Innovation.
  9. ^ "Joran ten Brink". asia pacific screen awards.
  10. ^ "Joran ten Brink". Goldsmiths University of London.
  11. ^ "TWO WORLD-RENOWNED DOCUMENTARY MAKERS COME TO BANGOR". Bangor University.
  12. ^ "Israeli outpost". Tolmers Village Forum.
  13. ^ "Joran ten Brink". Foyles.
  14. ^ Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch 2008. ASIN 1905674481.
  15. ^ "Building Bridges". Waterstones.
  16. ^ "Journey Through The Night". British Council.
  17. ^ "The Act of Killing". BFI. 19 March 2015.
  18. ^ "The Man Who Couldn't Feel". International Film Festival Rotterdam.
  19. ^ "Jacoba". Uk Jewish Film.
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