Jan Willem van Dam

Biography

Jan Willem van Dam made 16mm films and installations. He was affiliated with the Filmstad in The Hague, as well as with the ‘Vereniging ter bevordering van het kennisnemen van’. Some of his films are so-called ‘found footage’ films, for which Van Dam uses his own archive of old family and amateur films.

For Filmstad, Van Dam was responsible (together with Albert Wulffers and Gerard Holthuis) for the first Filmblikken series in 1997. More from this series would follow later, with Nico Bunnik as co-producer. Van Dam is a co-organizer of the PEK Festival, which has regularly taken place in The Hague starting in 1997.