Projects
Het Dierbaarste Bezit (2025)
- Theatre Performance
The performance 'Het Dierbaarste Bezit' is an artistic research into ideal images of love. Using mirrors, it seeks a language in dance and movement to explore relationships, role patterns, and (inter)dependency. The performance forms part of an ongoing project towards a hybrid documentary about the link between feminism and the history of (non-)monogamy.
This project was made possible by a subsidy from Fonds ZOZ.
Main credits:
Creative director: Zehra Eekhout - Director performance: Coco van der Wiel
- Choreographer: Rens Klein - Original music: Thomas Hell, Chananja Clement - Dramaturgy: Elise de Leede - Decor: Abe Brouwer - Video: Dunya Zita
Kreten / Cries (2024, 15 min)
- Short Film
This audiovisual poem breathes new life into De Profundis, a poem written in 1984 by Jan Laurens Siesling. This associative litany consisting of 288 different cries expresses the very human experience of wanting, needing, to get it all out; to cleanse yourself of whatever plagues your mind. The five young Dutch protagonists in this film recite the text, transforming it through performance arts, animation, and improvised oration.
Main credits:
Co-directors & co-producers: Zehra Eekhout, Tamar van Steijn - Key cast: Jelke Scholte, Lide Groutars, Victor Sliepenbeek, Hendrik Snijder, Anouk Wensink - Original Music: Sami Serhan. - Animation: Lide Groutars.
Burst Out (2023, 33 min.)
- Short Documentary
After the heyday of the 17 October uprising in Lebanon, three artists enter the Egg. This abandoned brutalist building became one of the central places in Beirut that Lebanese people occupied during months of protests. In their own artistic rendering, the three artists seek to interpret their memories and feelings toward the Egg. While not much has improved in Lebanon since the 17 October uprising, the three artists seek to give meaning to their personal relationship with the Egg and the recent uprising that took place in it.
Main credits:
Director & Producer: Zehra Eekhout - Cinematography: Dunya Zita - Key Cast: Noura Badran, Sami Serhan, Jana Khoury - Original Music: Sami Serhan
Leaking Sounds (2022, 11 min.)
- Short Documentary
This short documentary is about Dick van Ingen, a wind instrument repairman from Den Bosch, the Netherlands. Set in his home studio, leaking sounds is a haptic exploration of the senses that Dick uses in the craft of repairing wind instruments.
This is the first film I made, during my Master‘s in Visual Anthropology.
