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Jos de Putter
Feature documentaries  
  • A way to B
  • See no evil
  • Solo; out of a dream
  • Beyond the game
  • How many roads
  • Alias Kurban Saïd
  • Dans Grozny dans
  • The making of a new empire
  • Solo; the law of the favela
  • It's been a lovely day
Mid-lengthTelevisionCreative ProducerVisual artsAwardsPublicationsContact
Jos de Putter
Feature documentaries  
  • A way to B
  • See no evil
  • Solo; out of a dream
  • Beyond the game
  • How many roads
  • Alias Kurban Saïd
  • Dans Grozny dans
  • The making of a new empire
  • Solo; the law of the favela
  • It's been a lovely day
Mid-lengthTelevisionCreative ProducerVisual artsAwardsPublicationsContact
  • Jos de Putter
    Feature documentaries  
    • A way to B
    • See no evil
    • Solo; out of a dream
    • Beyond the game
    • How many roads
    • Alias Kurban Saïd
    • Dans Grozny dans
    • The making of a new empire
    • Solo; the law of the favela
    • It's been a lovely day
    Mid-lengthTelevisionCreative ProducerVisual artsAwardsPublicationsContact
    Jos de Putter
    Feature documentaries  
    • A way to B
    • See no evil
    • Solo; out of a dream
    • Beyond the game
    • How many roads
    • Alias Kurban Saïd
    • Dans Grozny dans
    • The making of a new empire
    • Solo; the law of the favela
    • It's been a lovely day
    Mid-lengthTelevisionCreative ProducerVisual artsAwardsPublicationsContact
    Jos de Putter
    Feature documentaries  
    • A way to B
    • See no evil
    • Solo; out of a dream
    • Beyond the game
    • How many roads
    • Alias Kurban Saïd
    • Dans Grozny dans
    • The making of a new empire
    • Solo; the law of the favela
    • It's been a lovely day
    Mid-lengthTelevisionCreative ProducerVisual artsAwardsPublicationsContact
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      VPRO Tegenlicht

    • From 2007 to 2013, I served as the final editor for Tegenlicht. I developed the profile 'future affairs' to keep the program at an attractive time slot, airing at 9 pm. I also continued to produce programs for Tegenlicht. In memoriam Aleksandr Litvinenko (2007) was especially noteworthy, as after the notorious poisoning death of the former secret service officer, I was the only one to whom he had told his story and predicted his death. Below is a list of the thirty documentaries that I made for Tegenlicht.

       

      Click on the pictures below to watch the documentaries online:

         

      Van 2007 tot 2013 was ik eindredacteur van Tegenlicht. Ik bedacht het profiel ‘future affairs’ om het programma te kunnen behouden op een aantrekkelijk tijdstip: om 9 uur ’s avonds. Ik bleef zelf ook programma’s maken voor Tegenlicht. In memoriam Aleksandr Litvinenko (2007) was bijzonder, omdat ik na de geruchtmakende vergiftigingsdood van de voormalige geheime dienst officier de enige bleek aan wie hij zijn verhaal had verteld en zijn dood had voorspeld.

       

      Klik op onderstaande foto's om de documentaires online te bekijken:

       

    • Wachten op Yevgeni Morozov

      Rome 2017

      Ontmoeting met Andrej Wajda

      Warschau 2015

    • WORKING FOR TELEVISION

       

      Jos de Putter says about his television work:

        

      "After my first two documentaries, I was asked in 1994 to come work for the renowned VPRO foreign program Diogenes. Diogenes. was led by journalist Jan Blokker, a living legend. The series was shot on film, which greatly enhanced the concentration during the shooting process (with 16 rolls of film) and editing (you could only make one cut because otherwise the image would shake). In terms of content, they were short 17 or 30-minute reports - the television hour was filled with 2 or 3 productions, connected by Blokker's masterful commentary in the pre-generics.

        

      Diogenes. was an interesting hybrid between visual background journalism and documentary. Some makers relied on content, others more on their own way of storytelling. It was not a real documentary: there was never any discussion about frames or the unity of time and space in a report. I learned this lesson during my third contribution, shot in an immigrant ghetto outside Lyon, against the background of the bombing committed by Khaled Kelkal, from the neighborhood, on the TGV in 1995. During the editing, the editor wanted to spread a conversation that I had filmed with young people from the neighborhood throughout the report. From my principles as a documentary maker, where I respect the unity of time and space, I forbade that. The editor got angry and called in the final editor. He was highly surprised by my argumentation and agreed with the editor."

        

      In the decades that followed, the concept of 'documentary' naturally watered down. Anything you see on television that is 'about something' is called a documentary. The documentary as a film, as an art form, can only be seen at some festivals. I have continued to make the distinction for myself, in all the years that I also work for television. That explains the principle separation between genres on this website.

          

      From 2008 to 2013, I was the editor-in-chief of the foreign program Tegenlicht. I came up with a new profile to distinguish the program from conventional news and documentary programs: 'future affairs'. Due to the global financial crisis, which we managed to predict, we became a widely viewed program that focused on financial-economic issues from unexpected perspectives, and in other ways focused on 'the world in the making'. My departure from the program was as unexpected as my arrival: after a quarter-hour interview with the television editor-in-chief, I had to make way for an old-timer. I learned from that that in most companies, even in so-called creative and progressive ones, it ultimately only comes down to power."

        

       

       

      Jos de Putter zegt over zijn televisiewerk: "Na mijn eerste twee documentaires werd ik eind 1994 gevraagd te komen werken voor het gerenommeerde VPRO buitenlandprogramma Diogenes. Diogenes stond onder leiding van journalist Jan Blokker, een levende legende. De serie werd op film gedraaid, wat de concentratie tijdens het draaiproces (met 16 rollen film) en montage (je kon maar één keer een schnitt maken omdat anders het beeld ging schokken) enorm bevorderde. Inhoudelijk ging het om korte reportages van 17 of 30 minuten –het televisieuur werd gevuld met 2 of 3 producties, onderling verbonden door het meesterlijk commentaar van Blokker in de pregeneriek.

        

      Diogenes was een interessante hybride tussen visuele achtergrondjournalistiek en documentaire. Sommige makers leunden op de inhoud, anderen meer op de eigen manier van vertellen.Het was geen echte documentaire: er was nooit discussie over kaders of de eenheid van tijd en ruimte in een reportage. Ik kreeg die les tijdens mijn derde bijdrage, gedraaid in een immigrantengetto buiten Lyon, tegen de achtergrond van de bomaanslag die Khaled Kelkal, afkomstig uit de wijk, in 1995 had gepleegd op de TGV. Tijdens de montage wilde de editor een gesprek dat ik met jongeren uit de wijk had gedraaid verspreiden door de reportage heen. Vanuit mijn principes als documentairemaker, waarbij ik de eenheid van tijd en ruimte respecteer, verbood ik dat. De editor werd boos en haalde de eindredacteur er bij. Die toonde zich hoogst verbaasd over mijn argumentatie en gaf de editor gelijk.

        

      In de decennia daarna is het begrip ‘documentaire’ natuurlijk verwaterd. Alles wat je op televisie ziet en wat ‘ergens over gaat’ noemen ze documentaire. De documentaire als film, als kunstvorm, zie je enkel nog op sommige festivals.Voor mezelf ben ik het onderscheid wel blijven maken, in al de jaren dat ik ook voor televisie werk. Dat verklaart de voor mij principiële scheiding tussen de genres op deze website."

        

      "Van 2008 tot 2013 was ik eindredacteur van het buitenlandprogramma Tegenlicht. Ik bedacht een nieuw profiel, om het programma te onderscheiden van gangbare actualiteiten- en documentaireprogramma's: 'future affairs'. Door de mondiale financiële crisis, die we wisten te voorspellen, werden we een veelbekeken programma dat vanuit onverwachte perspectieven inzoomde of financieel-economische kwesties en ook op andere manieren focuste op 'de wereld in wording'.

       

      Mijn vertrek bij het programma was even onverwachts als mijn komst: na een onderhoud van een kwartiertje met de hoofdredactie televisie moest ik plaats maken voor een oudgediende. Ik heb daarvan geleerd dat het in de meeste bedrijven, ook in zogenaamd creatieve en vooruitstrevende, uiteindelijk alleen over macht gaat."

        

       

       

      Reportages and tv documentaries

       

      1995 Brasil; the rules of the game, 16 mm, 24 minutes, VPRO-Diogenes

      1995 Rwanda; The trial 16mm, 17 minutes, VPRO-Diogenes

      1995 France, Lyon; Enemy of the state 16 mm., 17 minutes, VPRO-Diogenes

      1996 Rumania; The heroes of the 22nd. 16mm, 32 minutes, VPRO-Diogenes

      1996 Moscow; Lumumba university. 16mm, 17 minutes, VPRO-Diogenes

      1996 Thesiger; the traveller. 16mm, 18 minutes VPRO-Diogenes

      1996 Liberia – the promised land. 16 mm, 57 minutes VPRO-Diogenes

      1997 Fort Europa, VPRO, video, 35 minutes

      1997 On2Mars, VPRO, video, 25 minutes

      1998 Cruyff 50; (i.s.m. NPS) video, 25 minutes VPRO / NPS

      1998 In memory of the land, video, 35 minutes, VPRO

      1998 Yn’t foarbygean, Omrop Fryslãn, video 35 minutes

      1999 The Calculating Cowboy, VPRO / DNW, video, 50 minutes

      2001 Tired heroes VPRO/ DNW, video 50 minutes

      2002 The mountain (part of trilogy after 09/11) VPRO/DNW, video, 50 minutes

      2003 The Milosevic-case, VPRO/Tegenlicht video 2 x 55 minutes

      2004 The road to the Kremlin, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 52 minutes

      2004 The Milosevic-case updated, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 71 minutes

      2005 Thinking about Europe, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 52 minutes

      2008 Agenda Tegenlicht, 50 minutes

      2008 Crash, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 50 minutes

      2009 The iceland experience, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 50 minutes

      2010 The green revolution, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 50 minutes

      2011 Our dictator friends, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 50 minutes

      2011 The world after Wiki, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 52 minutes

      2012 Meeting John Berger, 22 minutes

      2012 Target Iran, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 50 minutes

      2012 Personal debt, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 50 minutes

      2013 The Banker’s Brain, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 50 minutes

      2013 The Banker’s Confession, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 50 minutes

      2013 Germany Out!, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 50 minutes

      2014 Speeches: Rosaria Schifani, VPRO, 50 minutes

      2015 Speeches: Lech Walesa, VPRO, 50 minutes

      2015 Speeches: Salman Rushdie, VPRO, 50 minutes

      2016 People, Power and Varoufakis, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 50 minutes

      2016 The Chinese World Order, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 50 minutes

      2017 Democracy’s challenge, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 50 minutes

      2017 A matter of confidence, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 50 minutes

      2018 Battle at the Danube, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 45 minutes

      2018 George Monbiot: the way out, VPRO/Tegenlicht,45 minutes

      2019 Exit Slotervaart, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 44 minutes

      2019 Eigen handel eerst, VPRO/Tegenlicht, 44 minutes

        

    • VPRO Diogenes 1995 Rwanda (fragment):

       

       

       

       

      I started working for the renowned TV documentary program Diogenes in 1995. The first short documentary I did was a portrait of the most notorious gang leader/narco trafficker Beato Salu, in a favela in Rio de Janeiro. Beato Salu was killed three months later. He must have known it was coming; I always think that was the only reason he agreed to talk to me.

       

      With Beato Salu, 1995

       

       

       

      1996: with Sir Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great explorers, director of photography Stef Tijdink, and sound engineer Wib Nelisse.

       

      With Beppe Grillo, Italy 2017, interpreter and director Christine Pawlata and Benny Jansen, sound engineer.

      With legendary investor Jim Rogers

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      Speeches (VPRO)

      (2015)

       

    • In 2013, I wrote the series "SPEECHES" for VPRO. The idea was to present famous speeches and find stories about the impact they still have on today's lives. In 2015, I directed three episodes: on Lech Walesa; on Salman Rushdie and on the emotional speech of Rosaria Schifani, at the funeral of her husband Vito, murdered by the mafia in the attack on Giovanni Falcone in 1992.

      with Lech Walesa

       

      Rosaria Schifani

       

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    A way to B

    See no evil

    Solo; out of a dream

    Beyond the game

    How many roads

    Alias Kurban Saïd

    Dans, Grozny dans

    The making of a new empire

    Solo; the law of the Favela

    Het is een schone dag geweest

     

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    Before the flood

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    Nor his donkey

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