The Universe of Jaap Pieters

Jaap Pieters passionately takes photographs and films mainly on Super8 of the world around him vagabonds drunkards striking incidence of light the beauty of decay In this way he has built up an oeuvre that is appreciated by a small group of film lovers all over the world In his house he keeps thousands of negatives and films that have never been developed due to chronic lack of money He also collects anything in which he sees a glimmer such as bags of sugar from restaurants where he once had ice cream with his parents books records CDs vases glasses be they broken or not His girlfriend with whom he has tried in vain to live together for 26 years comes to helping create some order in the chaos With his favourite uncle the poet HH ter Balkt he reminisces Two autists together but above all Jaap continues to film now elderly men with whom he feels some bond