In 2016, I started making music videos. In doing so, I borrowed material from others. I wanted to make videos again, but not by making expensive and complicated film recordings myself (with the accompanying trouble of applying for grants). There is already enough beautiful work that deserves more eyes. The music videos series was made not only as an ode to music, but also as an ode to extraordinary images by filmmakers and animators.

The choice of music reflects my interest in meaningful songs. Ordinary pop songs were less appealing to me. It was the big statements of great icons that attracted me. The work of Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, Jules de Corte and Bram Vermeulen was substantively deep and interesting to me. They were worth adding images to.

In addition to these four series, I also provided several individual songs with a video. The most popular of these is the video I made to accompany "Stand and Deliver" by Eric Clapton.

A lot is allowed on the Internet. Yet it can happen that a video is suddenly taken offline on youtube. If the author objects, you get a strike. With three strikes, your channel is shut down. I have seen quite a few videos disappear this way. The series is therefore hanging by a thread. You never know if you will be able to enjoy the video clips tomorrow.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that according to article 18b of Dutch copyright law, making a 'pastiche' is allowed. A pastiche is a work of art that consists of a "mishmash" of fragments from other works. That is exactly what I do, just as a painter refines his technique by using a Rembrandt as a starting point, I use material from feature films, commercials and animated films, and then tell my own story, a video pastiche.

The fun of creating was in making the images fit the music as precisely as possible. If the images start dancing to the music, it's good. And then when it also reinforces the content of the song, it creates fireworks.