Soetkin Verstegen


Disciplines: Film/Video – animation
Disciplines: Film/Video – animation
Based in Brussels, BELGIUM
Residencies: 2023

Soetkin Verstegen is a filmmaker and animator. Her films Freeze Frame (2019) and Mr Sand (2016) have been screened at Oberhausen, Hot Docs, Vienna Independent Shorts, and she received jury awards in Ann Arbor, Clermont Ferrand, and Annecy. She has been a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude and Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Germany, Saari Residency in Finland, and AniDox Residency in Denmark.

She’s a guest professor at LUCA school of arts in Brussels, with a focus on experimental, expanded and documentary animation.

At MacDowell, she is developing an animated diary, combining drawing and photography.

Studios

Putnam

Soetkin Verstegen worked in the Putnam studio.

Originally known simply as Graphics Studio, this building was converted to its current use between 1972 and 1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation. Before this transformation, the building served as both a powerhouse and pump house for the property. Well water was drawn from a large cistern and…

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