Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Vito Adriaensens, a Belgian filmmaker and scholar whose residency will support the development of Toward the Light, an ambitious historical novel set along the Hudson River in the 1870s.
Vito Adriaensens
Vito Adriaensens
Vito Adriaensens,(he/him) is a Belgian filmmaker, scholar, and Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is a co-author of Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema and the author of Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames: The Art of Early European Cinema. As a filmmaker, he works mainly on celluloid, and his first feature is the upstate anthology film Ovid, New York. At Catwalk, Vito will be working on Toward the Light, a sweeping 1870s-set novel in which three disparate lives converge in a dramatic love triangle on the Hudson River.
