Isabelle Tollenaere

Isabelle Tollenaere
Directing in the Field
Instructor and Supervisor (2019)

Graduation Semester MDP
Project Adviser (2021)

Isabelle Tollenaere is an independent filmmaker/artist from Belgium, making short and feature length films and installations, that playfully move between the codes and conventions of documentary and fiction, film and contemporary art.

Her work deals with the connections between the current shifts in reality and the memory of the past.

Her filmography includes Viva Paradis (2011), Battles (2015, feature-length) The Remembered Film (2018, short) and Victoria (2020, feature-length).

Her films have been widely presented, amongst others at the Berlinale Forum (Caligari Prize 2020), Rotterdam IFF (Fipresci award 2015), Centre Pompidou, Viennale, Visions Du Réel, FID Marseille, IDFA, CPH:DOX, 25FPS (Grand Jury Prize 2018), IndieLisboa (Special Jury Prize 2020), EMAF, Dokufest Kosovo, Ji.hlava, and many others.