Hanne Schillemans

Home is a short film about the fragility of life and the virtue of solitude. A faceless figure attempting not to resist the endless waves of pointlessness.

Home explores the tension between presence and absence within the strange choreography of existing. The protagonist’s nudity, devoid of eroticism, emphasizes vulnerability and the human form as a part not nature, reinforcing the film’s existential themes. The figure remains faceless, allowing her to become anyone — or everyone, shifting the focus away from personal identity and stressing instinct over intellect, being over persona.

Home oscillates between the micro and the macro, between intimacy and vastness. Ants crawling with tireless precision, the sun rendered in cosmic proximity. In this interplay the human body becomes just another element: fragile, raw, exposed and dwarfed by the enormity of the natural world.

Home meditates on aloneness not as absence, but as condition. It invites the viewer to witness a body moving through a universe that does not look back. Accompanied by music that is as raw as it is emotional, the film does not conform to conventional cinematic structures but instead allows the audience to immerse themselves in the rhythm of isolation and the ebb and flow of meaning in an indifferent world.

Home is created by Spin Echo – Hanne Schillemans and Ralph Timmermans

 IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37403682/?ref_=tt_rvi_i_1

Review about HOME:  https://festivalreviews.org/2025/04/20/short-film-review-home-experimental-dance-film/https://festivalreviews.org/2025/04/20/short-film-review-home-experimental-dance-film/

AWARDS:

BEST ART FILM - Experimental Dance and Music filmfestival Toronto

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM - East Village New York Film Festival

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM - Paradise Film Festival Cologne

BEST PICTURE - Paris Film Awards

FINALIST FOR BEST DANCE FILM - Swedisch International Film Festival 

HONORABLE MENTION - Athens International Art Film Festival

BLAAS! - Schoolvoorstelling - Familievoorstelling

Hoor je hem? Die onzichtbare stroom van lucht?

Wanneer een dromerige kleermaker met klare klanken en gekke geluiden

oude jassen nieuw leven inblaast gebeurt er iets bijzonders…

‘BLAAS!’ is een luchtige en muzikale bewegingsvoorstelling voor

kinderen tussen 3 en de 7 jaar oud.

BLAAS! is gecreëerd en gespeeld door Hanne Schillemans, Ralph Timmermans en Leon Van Egmond

BLAAS! is een productie van Spin Echo  - https://www.spinecho.net/

‘Onovertroffen, mooi en oprecht.’

‘Geen woorden voor … prachtig!!’

‘Het enthousiasme en de energie spatten van het podium!’

‘Ik werd diep geraakt door de persoonlijke getuigenissen.’

‘Heel hard genoten, ook van de choreo, ontroerende momenten!’

When the paths of a lonely harmonicaplayer and a teasing dancer cross unexpectedly, a dreamlike interdisciplinary duet takes place.

Created and performed by: Hanne Schillemans and Leon Van Egmond

Installation in glass, steelwire and ceramics by van Aurelia van der Burght - visual artist

Choreography and performance by Hanne Schillemans

Music by Ralph Timmermans

Camera and edit by Loes Janssen

[SPIN][ECHO]

Just Before Artificial Intelligence

With Just Before Artificial Intelligence [SPIN][ECHO] presents a performance about mankind anno 2017: love, fear, violence, sex and hope in times of technological metamorphosis. Choreographer Hanne Schillemans and composer/director Ralph Timmermans question whether society is ready for the profound implications of current and future technological developments. Expect a dazzling blend of dance, performance art, and an eclectic live sound track by the band Longen.

Directed by: Hanne Schillemans & Ralph Timmermans

Choreography: Hanne Schillemans

Music: Ralph Timmermans & Longen

Light designer & technician: Raoul Baeten

Musicians: Rebecca Sier, Johan Reijnders, Guus van Mierlo, Ralph Timmermans

Performers: Marleen Manders, Tess Brekelmans, Hanne Schillemans, Pol Van den Broek, Max Joey van den Hout

www.spinecho.net

Performance dates

17 September 2017 - Dansmakers Amsterdam (NL)

16 September 2017 - De NWE Vorst Tilburg (NL)

14 September 2017 - Dansmakers Amsterdam (NL)

15 September 2017 - Dansmakers Amsterdam (NL)

14 September 2017 - Dansmakers Amsterdam (NL)

21 January 2017 - Happening Koudijs 's Hertogenbosch (NL)

7 May 2016 - OCP De Pinte (BE)

31 December 2015 - Schurkenbiefsten 's Hertogenbosch (NL)

8 December 2015 - Club Solo Breda (NL)

2 Oktober 2015 - Verkadefabriek 's Hertogenbosch (NL)

28 June 2015 - Effect Festival Vlijmen (NL)

27 June 2015 - Effect Festival Vlijmen (NL)

26 June 2015 - Effect Festival Vlijmen (NL)

25 June 2015 - Effect Festival Vlijmen (NL)

"Black white and in Between" is a dance theatre performance created for the Beautiful After Breast Cancer Foundation. The choreography, performed by 11 (ex) breastcancer patients, tells the story about a woman who just received her breast cancer diagnosis. She finds herself caught in a storm of emotions. Supported by her fellow sufferers she undertakes a journey toward inner happiness and true beauty.

Concept and choreography: Hanne Schillemans

Dansers:Bie Berten, Martine Colman, Kathleen Van Houwenhove, Anne Hoorens, Elisabeth Lampens, Kathleen De Decker, Sabrine Verniers, Sophie Van Den Berghe, Marielle Van Bastelaere, Veronique Derycke, Annemie Borghijs, Hanne Schillemans

Muziek: Dirk Brossé (composition), Brussels Philharmonic, Lisa Jacobs/Maya Levy (violin),

Performance dates

3 maart 2016 - KBC Sint-Denijs-Westrem (BE)

24 november 2015 - KBC Brussels (BE)

14 june 2015 - Flagey Brussels (BE)

Links

VTM interview

Footage and interviews 'From Hope to Joy'

http://www.brusselsphilharmonic.be/concerten/kalender/event-detail/from-hope-to-joy-1/?no_cache=1

www.beautifulabc.com

Reactions from the audience

" From the first movement on, I couldn't restrain my tears. I understood every move, every symbolic reference, every expression. As I am a partner from an ex breast cancer patient this perfomance touched me very deeply. I can still not talk about it without getting emotional."

" True, emphatic, daring, subtle and unbelievably courageous"

" very touching performane, dance and music lift each other up"

This is a dutch spoken performance with dance and poetry. No english translation available

Deze korte voorstelling gaat over kunst: “een artificieel trauma dat niet zeer doet, maar wel je ogen kleurt”. Of is het iets anders? Hoe dicht kunnen twee paar armen en benen komen in hun omschrijving, middels dans en poëzie? Liefst concreet als het realiteitsbesef van een driedimensionale cavia. Een kunstenaar proeft nog oerboem in zijn tandplak of is geen kunstenaar.

Arnoud Rigter deed als dichter zo’n vijfhonderd optredens. Hij publiceerde een aantal multidisciplinaire bundels (met titels als Het duimzuigend fossiel en Zoek de zeesnuiver). Daarnaast stond zijn werk in tientallen literaire bladen en bloemlezingen (zoals De Gids, Het Liegend Konijn, DW B, nY, DBNL en 25 Jaar Nederlandstalige Poëzie 1980 – 2005).
www.arnoudrigter.nl

Choreography: Hanne Schillemans

Music: Dirk Brossé, uitgevoerd door Prima La Musica en Maya Levy

Dancers: Hanne Schillemans, Pol Van Den Broek, Lonis Mouhoubi

and Sophie, Elisabeth, Martine, Anne, Annemie, Véronique, Nancy, Sabrine, Alizee

‘African loops’ is an intimate, interdisciplinary duet between by a cellist and a dancer.

Longing for contact, help and affection she carefully but consistently approaches him. Who will be dominant, who is the puppet master? The carousel never stops turning, until it does...

Choreography and dance: Hanne Schillemans

Cello: Artem Shmahaylo of Herwig Coryn

Music: Dirk Brossé

Performance dates

20 january 2016 - during 'Inside Out' by Dirk Brossé - Arenberg Schouwburg Antwerp (BE)

17 januari 2016 - during 'Inside Out' by Dirk Brossé - Capitole Ghent (BE)

14 januari 2016 - during 'Inside Out' by Dirk Brossé - Schouwburg Kortrijk (BE)

13 januari 2016 - during 'Inside Out' by Dirk Brossé - CC Weststrand Dilbeek (BE)

9 januari 2016 - during'Inside Out' by Dirk Brossé - CC Kruispunt Diksmuide (BE)

26 januari 2015 - Bozar Brussels (BE)

25 januari 2015 - UFO Ghent (BE)

24 januari 2015 - Alambra Bergen (BE)

Madames, you know them all.

Well-mannered, settled and distinguished

Aiming to fall into society’s grace

Though they never escaped their own dreams

Hiding behind decency and everyday things

Are the sneaky desires to the sins they’ve never committed

Choreography: Hanne Schillemans

Performers: Sabine De Lange, Ann Wydooghe, Martine Colman, Florette Van Hecke, Simone Schillemans, Karien De Zutter, Caroline Van Haute

Performance dates

7 may 2016 - OCP De Pinte (BE)

9 may 2012 - De Singel Antwerp (BE)