Vincent wants to quit his antipsychotic medication. So begins a musical search for what the voices in his head mean, and where they come from. He seeks out psychiatrist Marius Romme and researcher Sandra Escher. Are the voices hallucinations, or entities from another world?

Voices of Vincent grew out of the question that drives my work as a filmmaker: how do people give meaning to what happens to them? I developed and directed the film under Story Collective, with support from, among others, the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. It premiered at Go Short International Film Festival and went on to festivals in the Netherlands and abroad. NRC Handelsblad devoted a long feature to it.

The film also travelled beyond the festival circuit, to conferences, mental health institutions and professional gatherings. The Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board screened it twice. Each audience took something different from it. Doctors, anthropologists and art lovers discussed art as medicine, the western view of schizophrenia as an illness, and the heavy side effects of medication.

The film is still being screened, including through Ethics Film Service.

FESTIVALS
Go Short International Film Festival Nijmegen (festival premiere) – 2017
Cineblend Film Festival Amsterdam – 2017
Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá – Colombia, 2017
Saratov Sufferings Film Festival – Russia, 2017
Szczecin European Film Festival – Poland, 2017
Nida Short Film Festival – Lithuania, 2017
FICSAM Mental Health Festival – Portugal, 2017
DocuPodium Amsterdam – 2017
Eindhoven Film Festival – 2017
Paaspop Festival Schijndel – 2017
American Documentary Film Festival – USA, 2018
DOCFeed Eindhoven – 2018
Ammehoela Film Festival Amsterdam – 2018
Groningse Nieuwe – 2018

SCREENINGS (SELECTION)
Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board (CBG) – 2017, 2018
World Hearing Voices Day – 2017, 2018
NRC Handelsblad – online screening – 2017
Anthropology Screening Room, University of Amsterdam – 2017
Stichting Anton Constandse, The Hague – 2017, 2018
Psychosenet – online screening – 2019
Films For Change – streaming, Australia – 2020
Stichting Perceval & Filmlokaal Amsterdam – 2026
Ethics Film Service – educational distribution