Rinus Van de Velde (b. 1983) is one of themost talked-about contemporary artists.Since 2019, he has added the mediumof film to his wide-ranging oeuvre ofdrawings, installations and ceramics.This book provides insight into how hisfilms and the beautiful handmade setsare created. In matchless fashion, theall-rounder disrupts the spectator'ssense of normality in a perpetual gameof truth and fiction, of authenticityand copy.In The Villagers the viewer enters Van deVelde's world. An important role is playedby the seventeen life-size cardboard setson which he worked for two years.Narrative evolved into a more abstractform of expression in La Ruta Natural.For this second film, which followsHardcover with LP 264 pages 31.3 31.3 cm 95 Trilingual edition English-Dutch-French ISBN 978 94 6494 148 7a surreal road trip, Van de Velde hada mask made resembling his face.His most recent film, A Life in a Day,is introspective and shows the innerworkings of the artist. The result is anintimate and pure voyage of discoveryin which Van de Velde analyses himselffrom a distance and visually shapeshis artistry.Numerous stills, drawings, props, studioand exhibition views bring Van de Velde'sfilms to life in this impressive book, forwhich author Timon Karl Kaleyta wrotethe texts.Films will be published together with avinyl disc of Joachim Badenhorst's filmsoundtracks.