Director: Milou van Vlijmen

Film: Old Bag

Bio: A world in which elderly women transform themselves into beautiful Italian leather handbags in order to pass on their knowledge to the next generation.

Milou van Vlijmen (1984, The Netherlands) is an artist based in Amsterdam. She studied Fine Arts (BA ’22) at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague. Everyday rituals, encounters and stories serve as a starting point for her practice. Her video works can be read as contemporary fairytales or metaphors, in which she uses humor and playfulness to investigate the world around her. In the universe she brings to life through her practice she effortlessly turns a lump of gold into her father with the use of a solarium, and transforms an elderly lady into a handbag.