Pim Zwier

Pim Zwier is an independent filmmaker/media artist/photographer who studied at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam between 2001 and 2003. His work consists of photography, documentaries and video-installations, and is often inspired by, or based upon, archive material.

For his documentary films he prefers to work with correspondences, diaries or autobiographies in which ‘small history’ has been recorded. These provide him with the opportunity to link the abstraction of historical events to memories; a link which completes and nuances history and provides new perspectives.

In 2022 he received the Documentary Stipend of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and in 2021 his film O, collecting eggs despite the times won the IDFA award for best directing in the Envision competition.