Education
Pieter Dirkx first studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp before starting film studies at Sint-Lukas Brussels.
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Pieter Dirkx first studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp before starting film studies at Sint-Lukas Brussels.
His short film Bento Monogatari premiered in the Cinéfondation program at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. His first short in film school was ‘The Geometry of Beetles’, about a lonely man who considers his framed insects to be his only friends. Foreign his graduation project, Dirkx made ‘Bento Monogatari‘.
lieutenant tells the story of Yvonne, a woman whose marriage has lost its spark.
‘Bento Monogatari’ was eventually selected for the Cannes Film Festival 2011 in the Cinéfondation programme. Other festival selections include the Hamburg Short Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, Brussels Film Festival, and Emir Kusturica"s Küstendorf Film and Music Festival.
In 2011, Pieter Dirkx directed the music video for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah"s single "Maniac". The Geometry of Beetles (2009) Bento Monogatari (2010).