Production Designer
*features
*shorts
*video-installations
Marieke van den Bosch is based in the Netherlands
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a messy tribute to motherly love
production design feature film
Tiger Competition IFFR 2026
DoP: Jeroen de Bruin
Director: Dan Geesin A contemporary fairy tale for adults about the make-ability of life and a personal journey to happiness, all set in a world where people explode from stress.
Village piano tuner Samuel Dirk (48) is cleaning up his house after his wife recently exploded from stress. His magical jam-making mother wants to help, and ropes in Samuel’s oldest friend Edwin, hoping to make Samuel’s life ‘complete again’. They pursuade Samuel to go on a bonking German joy-ride, forcing him to consider the question: what is the make-ability of a happy life? Samuel returns home with new prospects and for one last taste of his mother’s magical jam mixture.
janine’s room
set design video-installation
35mm on film black and white
loop duration 17min 43 sec.
DoP: Remko Schnorr
Director: Fiona Tan
RIJKSMUSEUM AMSTERDAM 2025
(Part of solo-exhibition Monomania)
mothers
production design hybrid-documentary Nominated for IDFA Award for Best Dutch FilmDoP: Gregor Meerman
Director: Nirit Peled
Four mothers explain how their sons ended up in trouble with the law because they fell in with the wrong crowd, experienced trauma or were intimidated by a gang. The offenses are minor, and their involvement was not always proven—sometimes they were only witnesses to a crime. But once Amsterdam’s Top400 crime prevention program has them in its sights, things just get worse for them.
The mothers are held hostage by a bureaucracy that entirely disrupts family life. Friends and family see them as bad parents, and the police sometimes even treat them as accomplices. To protect their identity, the mothers themselves don’t appear on camera, but we do hear their voices. Their roles are played by actresses who lip-sync their stories.
These stories are not only an expression of frustration, anger and a sense of powerlessness, but also an indictment of the use of algorithms for the prediction of criminal behaviour. This form of crime prevention has a particularly stigmatizing effect and discriminates against socially and economically underprivileged young people from migrant backgrounds.
the young man as a movie starParanoia, Opulence, Perversion, Competition.
Production design video-installationloop duration 4x 12min.
DoP: Jurgen Lisse
Director: Bart Groenendaal
The story is based on the young male character and his role in cinema. Using the well-known male directors Hitchcock, Godard, Spielberg and Von Trier – each iconic for a different period in film history - a period in time when the concept of masculinity definitively shifted – different possible relationships between a 20-year-old man and 45-year-old woman are explored in this work.
Galerie: a rose is a rose is a rose,
Rozenstraat Amsterdam 2022