Peet Gelderblom

Peet Gelderblom

History

Peet Gelderblom is a director, writer, editor and video essayist from the Netherlands. His very diverse filmography includes collage films, documentaries, commercials, drama, online content and broadcast design. He has written and edited numerous articles and video essays for RogerEbert, IndieWire, Imagine Film Festival, Fandor, Film School Rejects and Slant. His archival fiction feature When Forever Dies carries the tagline "A cinematic fantasia 125 years in the making." Assembled from fragments of hundreds of largely forgotten movies - most of them found in the Eye Filmmuseum archives - it tells the story of two star-crossed lovers trapped in a kingdom of shadows, fighting to keep their love alive as they gradually fall in hate. In 2016, Gelderblom's re-cut of Brian De Palma's "Raising Cain" became the first fan edit to be crowned official Director's Cut. The Hollywood legend let him supervise its restoration for an internationally praised Blu-ray release.

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Peet Gelderblom

Movies

When Forever Dies
When Forever Dies
Editor
An archival fiction feature about the eternal battle of the sexes, in which two star-crossed lovers trapped in a kingdom of shadows fight to keep their love alive as they gradually fall in hate. Their names are Forever Man and Forever Woman. They are embodied by actors and actresses from long-gone eras, but also by cartoon characters and puppet animations. Together they narrate the story of the euphoric ups and tragic downs of human existence. When Forever Dies, a virtuoso collage of film fragments from the Eye Filmmuseum archive, is an epic ode to largely unseen cinema anchored in the polarizing world of today.
When Forever Dies
When Forever Dies
Writer
An archival fiction feature about the eternal battle of the sexes, in which two star-crossed lovers trapped in a kingdom of shadows fight to keep their love alive as they gradually fall in hate. Their names are Forever Man and Forever Woman. They are embodied by actors and actresses from long-gone eras, but also by cartoon characters and puppet animations. Together they narrate the story of the euphoric ups and tragic downs of human existence. When Forever Dies, a virtuoso collage of film fragments from the Eye Filmmuseum archive, is an epic ode to largely unseen cinema anchored in the polarizing world of today.
When Forever Dies
When Forever Dies
Director
An archival fiction feature about the eternal battle of the sexes, in which two star-crossed lovers trapped in a kingdom of shadows fight to keep their love alive as they gradually fall in hate. Their names are Forever Man and Forever Woman. They are embodied by actors and actresses from long-gone eras, but also by cartoon characters and puppet animations. Together they narrate the story of the euphoric ups and tragic downs of human existence. When Forever Dies, a virtuoso collage of film fragments from the Eye Filmmuseum archive, is an epic ode to largely unseen cinema anchored in the polarizing world of today.