Astrid Bussink


Astrid Bussink is a Dutch filmmaker. Her debut film is the documentary The Angelmakers.
She studied fine art at the Academy of fine Arts, AKI, Enschede in the Netherlands and her Master in film at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.
During this Master she shot her award-winning documentary The Angelmakers.
After this she made the short films Rückenlage / Upside Down, The 9 lives of my car and I shot the mayor .
Bussink lives and works in Amsterdam where she made her feature-length documentary , screened in 2008. She made a personal documentary, , about the Enschede fireworks disaster that happened May 13, 2000, in which 23 people died, nearly 1000 were injured and many houses were destroyed, including Bussink's house. 'My Enschede' premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2010.
During her artist in residency program in New York she started her photography project Constructions of Happiness, which she showed in galleries in New York, Edinburgh and Amsterdam.
In September 2012 her documentary premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival.

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