Jonas van der Molen

2025

A sensory voyage through a landscape created with destructive power.
From the depths of the earth emerges an impression of a natural world. Our senses are guided through time, movements and textures, revealing an estranged landscape created by limestone exploitation.

Jonas van der Molen
Netherlands
2025
17 min
Russian Premiere

Jonas van der Molen
Jonas van der Molen

Roel Meelkop

Hinterland (2024)

Jonas van der Molen (2003) is a filmmaker from Rotterdam who strongly believes in the expressive power of image, sound and editing. Rather than relying primarily on dialogue or narration, he sees cinema as a medium that operates beyond logic, that allows intuition, perception and poetic connections to find meaning. He is interested in creating immersive and sensory experiences that arise from associations, atmosphere and the inner rhythm of the images. Central to his artistic practice is a fascination for the magic of non-human landscapes, textures and movements. By slowing down perception and allowing space for ambiguity, he explores how cinema can challenge our perspective of the world around us.