Thys Ockersen

Thys Ockersen, born February 3rd in Amsterdam, attended a film-school, the NFA, from 1965-1969 and graduated with the fiction/instruction-short "Surprise Surprise" that won him a Chicagostudent award in 1969. At the same moment when his picture was shown on Dutch TV, it caused a much publicized riot when it showed the cutting of an eye, a reenactment of a scene from Bunuels Chien Andalou. Thys has made up till now about 50 documentaries, short films and was involved in feature films. He was a film critic for the Amsterdam newspapers NRC/Handelsblad and Het Parool and a film teacher at the Rotterdam Artschool for about twelve years. He writes for several magazines and runs a film society in his hometown Zandvoort. Recently he started a documentary about the reconstruction of a woodcutting mill which was demolished in 1942.