Girlhood Summer
(fragments, full film released mid- 2026)
A diary of a summer. Some summers stay with you, not because they lasted long but because they made you feel alive in ways you will never forget.
Directed by Melissa Schriek
DP by Bo Bolderink
Acting by Laura Rato and Isabelle Schimmel
Grading by Erik Krull
The Shape of Summer
Blending choreographed movement, poetic imagery and surreal interactions with nature, the film explores summer as a fleeting, dreamlike state, a moment that slips away before it’s fully grasped.
Set in the Dutch landscape, the film taps into a collective nostalgia: the ache of moments we can’t hold onto and the quiet beauty in impermanence. Through expressive body language, the protagonist senses time passing not through clocks or calendars, but through subtle shifts in light, weather and emotion. The Shape of Summer blurs the line between dream and reality, memory and sensation. In an overstimulated world, the film offers a quiet meditation on presence, the female body as a site of perception and transformation, and the ephemeral beauty of the everyday.
Directed by Melissa Schriek
DP by Bo Bolderink
Performed by Lola de Langen
Styled by Simone Konu Rae
Edit and sound design by Dylan Connor Haigh
Grading by Erik Krul
The City is a Choreography
A moment inspired by the ‘sidewalk dance’ - the awkward and comical moment when two people unintentionally move in the same direction, hindering one another’s attempt to pass.
Directed by Melissa Schriek
DP by Mark Adcock
Actors Matteo Zecca and Caitlin McCarthy
Styling by Zoe Redmond