Schmitz (‘93) works across filmmaking, video installation, and image-making. Drawing from found and personal archives, she cuts, displaces, and reassembles image, text, and sound into shifting constellations. Her essayistic practice engages with ways of seeing, using chance as a method to rethink how images and symbolic orders produce meaning.

She completed her bachelor’s degree at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, whereafter she developed her interest in human–image relationships at the master’s Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

She is part of art collective and production house Touchy Studios, where she writes, directs and edits commissioned productions, from music videos to short documentaries.

Alongside her artistic work, she teaches Research Through Film, approaching filmmaking as a way of thinking and researching. She has taught in various contexts, including the Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Leiden University, and Zend Festival in collaboration with Institute for Sound & Vision.