WORK
SIUKI KIKI HO
Siu Ki (Kiki) Ho is a documentary filmmaker and audiovisual artist of Dutch-Indonesian descent.
After completing her Master’s in Documentary Filmmaking at UCL London, she directed several short films that were been screened at festivals and symposia worldwide. As an audiovisual maker, she is fascinated by the intangible: Belonging, desire, grief - To make art and films in which a habitat is created for viewers to step into - rather than chasing them. For her debut feature film "Zie Je," she received the Dutch Film Critic Award and is currently shortlisted for the Dutch Directors Guild Awards.
Next to her work as an audiovisual maker, Kiki is dedicated to breaking the stigma surrounding mental health issues and to portraying neurodiversity in a positive and authentic light; she organises exhibitions and programmes around these themes, is co-director at the outdoor mental health charity The Big Hoof and works as an impact producer for the award-winning documentary “My word against mine” by Maasja Ooms.
Obituary
They were a somewhat odd family
Not devoid of love yet
Shared a striking likeness with a headless chicken
Inconsistent and ill-shaped
Warm to the heart but prickly
To touch
A car held together with
Tie-rips and sticky-tape
Crossing its fingers at every turn
It didn’t work very well
But certainly had charm
Now, left a three legged-table
Oh
They will be dearly missed.
obituary/poem/2026
WHERE THE LIGHT COMES IN
experimental documentary 55’
poetry Kateryna Babkina
music Anton Baibakov
IDFA project Space,
Insulate Ukraine &
Jos de Putter, NL2026
Teaser:https://vimeo.com/1025264861?share=copy
PW: Wind_Eye
SCREAMS
ultrakort beeldexperiment over schermdwang (2’)
Open City Docs, UK2020, NEFILTRAVANAE KINO, Short Movie Club Festival
Vertigo
Three missed calls
In the early heat
Of a morning tent
Instantly the swaying starts
A few clicks on a lifeless screen
And something that sounds like
My mother swirls into my ear
A whirlpool of repetition
My father takes over
A policeman in the background
Says don’t lose hope sir
Now the twisting tops my head
Tumbling to my knees
Keeping in my insides
Crawling up against gravity
Vertigo, half a metre above ground
A lifetime away from where you stood
Facing a bright and cloudless morning
Roofs warming in the rising sun
vertigo/poem/2026
LIEVE OPA
Essay film 7’ // GRIEF
found footage & family archive, UCL Open City Docs UK2021, Alentejo FF, GIF programme International Women's Day
Link: https://vimeo.com/470234897/be1603df6e?share=copy\
STRIJD OP 16 MM / A battle restored,
16”, short doc, regie/scenario Kiki Ho & Ananta Khemradj, Lunar Produkties,
NL2023. +40 nationale & internationale vertoningen: The Barbican London, Rialto, De Balie, Keti Koti, Montreal Orphans Counter-Archives Film Symposium, Eye, Surinaams Filmfestival, Kriterion, Bijlmerparktheater e.a.
Credits
producer Staccato Films
in coproduction with VPRO
director, scenarist Siu Ki Ho
cinematography Sean Louw
editing Katarina Türler,
Bram van Dam, Siu Ki Ho
sound design Morten Brogaard &
Birgit de Priester
colorist Matthias Stoopman
music Andre Heuvelman,
Frans de Rond, Anton Baibakov
directing coach Ester Gould
Zie Je, / With sand in our eyes
non-fiction feature. 113 min,2025
After losing her sister to suicide, filmmaker Kiki Ho retreats into solitude to search for answers in the vast body of art her sister left behind.
Publications
De Volkskrant
NPO Radio 1
NRC
VARA Gids
Metro Krant
GGZ Nieuws
De Filmkrant
Zorgvisie Magazine
VPRO Cinema
Screenings
Nederlands Film Festival
NPO 2
Felix Meritis
Louis Hartloopercomplex
UvA Universiteitstheater
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Filmtheater De Uitkijk
Dutch Film Critic Award /
KNF Prijs v/d NL filmjournalistiek
‘Het is dan ook grandioos, deze razendkwetsbare zoektocht, vlijmscherpe maatschappijkritiek
en wanhopige ode aan twee zussen’
- NRC 2025
It’s in the reaching for a cup without looking
In finding the warmest spot in the house as days get colder
Or the absentminded stroking of a cat that jumped on your lap unnoticed
It’s in brushing your teeth, with a brush just slightly overdue In a messy drawer full of paperclips, bottle caps and sticky tape Or a forgotten Christmas card on the fridge, calmly gathering dust
It’s in these seemingly insignificant things, that home is defined.
A life domestic and steadfast
rhythmic and unchanging
reliable like a clock
But what do these habits, routines, this everydayness still mean
when there is a war is taking place
right outside your window?
BEFORE SPRING
audiovisual experiment 4’
Ukraine’24, Insulate Ukraine, IDFA Project Space, Zachary Tarrant, Louis Hall, Anton Baibakov
Link: https://vimeo.com/1006570653?ts=0&share=copy
PW: Pickles_Sketch