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Exsul Van Helden
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Exsul Van Helden
Professor of Film, Video, and Theatre
Location: Academic Center - 226
Phone: 443-334-2160
Email Address: f-vanhel@mail.vjc.edu
EDUCATION
D.R.S., University of Amsterdam
My name is Exsul Van Helden. I am a native of the Netherlands, and earned my Doctorandus in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam. Early in my career I worked with and studies cultural minorities in Europe and Central and South America, while using my 35mm still camera and trying to capture life in these different cultures. Following this fieldwork, I joined the Amsterdam City Journal, a Dutch Filmcollective, where I began my first effort to address social issues with the use of film. Topics included health care centers in Amsterdam and the process of growing older.
OTHER MOVIES INCLUDE
- Our Children with Down Syndrome, a documentary that portrays the experience of parents of Down Syndrome children. Award Superfest L.A.
- Locust Point, a dramatized documentary about immigration from Europe to U.S.A. via Baltimore around 1900. Cinematographer. (Trailer)
- Students Mobilized Against Drugs, educational video for Adolescents.
- When Cultures Meet, IN FIVE SENSES, seven programs focusing on what people from different cultures share.
- Around the Studio, a documentary about the French painter, Gerard Sighicelli (filmed in the South of France). Cinematographer. (Trailer)
- Johns Hopkins Shock Trauma, a documentary about the Trauma Service for Children. ITVA Award. (Trailer)
- Noh Master with American Students, Introduction of the Japanese Theatre to students of the School of the Arts. The film focuses on how performers and students find tools to communicate.
- Women Between Worlds, a thirty minute documentary concerning the challenges faced by women who have immigrated to the U.S. and find themselves between cultures. (More Information)
- Circus Flora (in progress), a movie the presents a slice-of-life view of a community of performers - people who integrate their personal goals (artistic, economic, etc.) with those of the working circus community. Producer/Cinematographer. (More Information)
I am presently an Professor of Film & Video at Villa Julie College. I have also taught at Johns Hopkins University, UMBC, Towson University and Goucher College. For the last 20 years, I have worked as Director of Photography/Producer/Director. Clients have included: the National Crime Prevention Council; the Johns Hopkins School for Hygiene and Public Health; Independent Television Service; St. Paul Minnesota; the Baltimore School for the Arts and Sinai Hospital.
My photos have been shown at:
- Villa Julie College's Gallery
- The Creative Alliance
- Catonsville Community College
- A fundraising show for Kosovo
- Artscape, Town Hall, Baltimore
- The Heart Gallery, Maryland
- The Resurgam Gallery
- The Ahisma Gallery
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