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After attending St. Joost Art Academy in Breda, ELBE STEVENS instantly started working as a screenplay writer and director. Since then, Stevens has worked for nearly every broadcast company in the Netherlands, both public as well as commercial. He is specialized in the field of comedy and drama. In addition to his commercial work, Elbe Stevens also made various independent short movies. These shorts have been screened all over the world; on television, at film festivals as well as art galleries. His shorts are marked by their inventive combination of narrative and visual elements. Since 2010, Elbe has been active as producer of independent, unique feature films. He is one of the founders of media network Cinesud and is a regular guest lecturer at festival and art academies.
- SinemaDansAnkara Film Festival Turkey 2014
- CINEDANS - Dance on Screen Festival Amsterdam 2014
- Official opening ECI Cultuurfabriek Roermond 2013
- Dutch Dance Festival Maastricht 2013
- Festival Cultura Nova Heerlen 2013
Structuring its narrative around a deftly constructed re-appropriation of Godard’s coffee-cup scene from Two or Three Things I Know about Her, Elbe Stevens employs the effervescence of water to tie together the essences of FLIGHT OF LIFE. Encapsulating the vivacity of life and its participants within the carbonated bubbles that rise to the top, we’re offered a loving, domestic couple whose symbiosis dances a synchronous pas-de-deux. Simple yet highly effective, Stevens’ depiction of true love through dance (flirting seen as mating dance, the habit of companionship as a Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers routine) burrows to the soul of the film and its message. Beyond its allegorical take on the fleeting dimension of life and its moments, Stevens succinctly coalesces the performative down to the essential force of Love. As such, the protagonists’ sexual unity offers them (and by proxy, the viewer), a brief but orgasmic vision of life and death...love, conquering both. (Andrei Tănăsescu, BIEFF)