Alberto Van den Eynde

Sensitive Materials is a linear film / installation / film performance art piece that seeks to give new meaning to an archive of home movies belonging to the director’s family, through the reading of a pulp science fiction story.

Several voices tell the story of Alan, a detective from the big city working on a case that makes him realise the truth about his past: his childhood memories aren’t real, they’ve implanted a device in him that projects family films against his neural networks. This film is the projection of those false childhood memories.

BIO
Alberto Van den Eynde (Madrid,1995) is a filmmaker and editor. After graduating in Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid, his short film ‘The Only Year That I Remember’ won the 2006 Production Award at  the FILMADRID International Film Festival which earned him a scholarship for a master’s degree in Film Production and Distribution at the Escola de Producció Audiovisual de Catalunya EPAC/ECIB - Mallerich. He has also taken several courses at LAV (Laboratorio AudioVisual) specialising in experimental and first-person cinema, where he has attended sessions given by filmmakers such as Ross Lowder, Johann Lurf, Carolina Astudillo, Laida Lertxundi and Andrés Duque. He currently works at Filmin as a video editor and creator. His work is related to experimental cinema and first-person documentary, and he is particularly interested in filming the everyday and the captivating - and phantasmagorical - nature of home movies. His work has been screened at international festivals such as Filmadrid, Íntima Fest, Festival Una Casa, Besides The Screen (Brazil), CINETORO - International Festival of Experimentation (Colombia), Film Diary NYC (USA) and Mientras tanto CINE (Uruguay).

He is currently working on his first feature film, Sensitive Materials, selected by the L’Alternativa Festival to be part of the Mentoring Projects laboratory.