Love-22-Love: A Personal Journey Through Art and Love

Driven by the will to conquer his demons, artist Jeroen Kooijmans presents 'Love-22-Love', a tribute to art, the love for his wife, and the dark corners of his psyche. At the bottom of his existence, love serves as a remedy. Following the screening, Jeroen Kooijmans will be present for a Q&A. 'Love-22-Love' is an homage to love, art, and darkness. For filmmaker Jeroen Kooijmans, creating art is his reason for existence, yet it sometimes leads him to deep despair. The raw footage shows him filming himself as he becomes entangled in a psychosis. In this intimate documentary, Kooijmans reconstructs the period leading up to these moments and the long journey that followed, entirely through personal archival material from himself and his beloved. The film is ultimately a love letter to his wife, artist Elspeth Diederix, who is his anchor in life and the light at the end of his tunnel. The film illustrates how love, art, and the dark corners of the psyche intersect, allowing space for doubt, struggle, and ultimately insight. Over the span of 33 years that the film covers, an answer unfolds to the question of how love and art can sustain and heal a life.