a testimony (2025)
Directed by / CinematograpyEveryone carries traces of exclusion, but the fear of judgment often keeps them hidden.
In the short performative film a testimony, theater artist Adelheid Roosen and performance artist Leendert Vooijce break this silence, and become each other’s witness.
French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas said: ‘I am only free in the face of the Other’.
Adelheid and Leendert open their inner world and invite the viewer as the third witness in their search for healing, a movement between raw vulnerability and playful beauty. Being radically open, they create a space for reflection that turns visible the way in which age-old ideas about gender, identity, heteronormative structures and female rage are shaped within the dynamics of exclusion.
a testimony has been screened in De Pont Tilburg, De Balie Amsterdam, and during Breda Photo.
A film by Adelheid Roosen + Leendert Vooijce
Directed by + Camera Casper Buijtendijk | Dramaturgy Lauren Rissik
Produced by Female Economy | Visual Consultant: Christiaan van Leeuwen | 1st AD: Sarah Mulder + Julia van der Veen | Focus Puller: Patrick Rietveld | Sound Recordist: Andrés García Vidal | Sound Design: Selle Inti Sellink - STILL Sound Design | Color Grading: Petro van Leeuwen CSI | Vfx Compositors: Mario Signorini + Basten Moorman | Music: Hadewych van Gent | Special Thanks: De Duif + Stadsherstel Amsterdam
