Eco Expo:
Jori(k) A. Galama
Jori(k) A. Galama works across fine art, literature, and cinema. They graduated from the Artistic Research in and through Cinema Master’s programme at the Netherlands Film Academy. Their fiction and essays on art and cinema have appeared in Metropolis M, De Revisor, Tirade, Kluger Hans, Tubelight, De Internet Gids, and various other artists’ publications. They currently work primarily as a documentary director and creative producer, with a focus on critically engaged ecological perspectives.
Yntolerânsje (2025) is a speculative archive essay film tracing the entangled histories of cows, the Dutch colonial empire, and Frisian identity. It departs from the story of Île Amsterdam, a remote Indian Ocean island where five cows left by 19th-century European settlers multiplied into a herd of two thousand. Deemed an ecological threat, the herd was exterminated by the French government in 2010, save for one disabled bull, now living in a Frisian cow retirement home.
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Our cultural program aims to deepen the ecological and social dialogue initiated by our festival. Featuring an Eco Expo and a live audiovisual concert, it offers rich material for contemplation and discussion.
1 - 7 June
mo. 17:00 - 22:00tue. - fri. 14:00 - 22:00
sat. - sun. 11:00 - 22:00
at Studio/K
7 June | Exhibition tours | Studio/K
16:00 - 16:45
18:00 - 18:45
The three artists will show you their work and tell you more about their ideas, visions and inspiration.
︎︎︎ the eco expo is free to visit︎︎︎
Curatorial text:
Archives are never neutral. They are acts of selection, shaped by power, loss, and forgetting. For the 2026 Eco Expo of Sprouts Film Festival, three artists glean from what remains: a parasitic flower evolving through plastic pollution, a fictional Caribbean island scarred by colonization and memory loss, and a disabled bull, sole survivor of a colonial herd exterminated on a remote Indian Ocean island. Together, their works ask what grows when we return to what was left behind, and how inherited images, objects, and histories can be composted into new ecologies of meaning.
