Tess Martin

2025

How Now, House? investigates our yearning to leave traces behind through the prism of one house in Rotterdam. Using archives, personal memories and the philosophy of time, the film questions whether a space can ever really belong to one person, or time period, at all.

Filmmaker
Country
Year
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PREMIERE

Tess Martin
Netherlands
2025
13 min
Peresburg Premiere

Tess Martin
Tess Martin
Matija Pekic
Ruben van Asselt
Ruben van Asselt
Bianca Casaburi
Arnaud van Vliet

1976: Search for Life (2023)
Still Life with Woman, Tea and Letter (2022)
Voice (2020)
Orbit (2019)
Ginevra (2017)
The Lost Mariner (2014)
Mario (2014)
The Whale Story (2012)

Tess Martin is an artist and filmmaker based in Rotterdam since 2014. She had an international upbringing and studied both fine art and animation, resulting in a mixed artistic practice. Tess has exhibited and attended residencies internationally and she occasionally lectures and gives workshops. She was a participant in Berlinale Talents in 2024.