Julia Sterre Schmitz (1993, Amsterdam) works across filmmaking, video installation, and image-making. Drawing on both 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 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 during 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 has taught the course Research Through Film at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague and Leiden University. She also leads workshops in various contexts, including Zend Festival Den Haag in collaboration with Beeld & Geluid, where she approaches filmmaking as a way of thinking and researching.