Julius Horsthuis

Julius Horsthuis (Amsterdam, 1980) is a Visual Artist. Julius developed a love for film and video at the age of 12. After high school, he worked on various film sets as sound recordist, clapper loader and focus puller in the years 2000 to 2006. Baantjer (2000-2003), Koppels (2006). He also finished a one-year video study in the Open Studio (2003) Meanwhile, Julius had developed interest in computer graphics. He worked for several years for different (post) production companies, Revolver (2004-2005) Carbon (2006-2010) and Hectic Electric (2010-2018). Julius supervised several films such as “Nova Zembla” (Oerlemans, 2011) and Academy Award winning “Manchester by the Sea” (Lonergan, 2016) He took creative supervision on what was the most VFX-heavy film in the Netherlands: “Koning van Katoren” (Sombogaart, 2012) In 2013, Julius started experimenting with Fractal Environments, creating a unique blend between abstract and cinematic animation. His work quickly gained worldwide recognition, being posted regularly in blogs and news sites such as The Creators Project, Gizmodo, Newsweek and the Vimeo Staff Picks. For various high-profile projects, Julius collaborated with other visual artists, such as Android Jones and Beeple (Coachella Antarctic). Musical collaborations include Max Cooper, Meshuggah, Tigran Hamasyan and Ed O’Brien. He has worked on visuals for Odesza, Empire of the Sun, Avicii, Ott and others. In 2018 Julius exhibited his work in digital art gallery Artechouse. This high-resolution installation ran for three months. Other exhibitions include the Art Futura Festival, MIRA Digital Arts Festival, SAT symposium Montréal, Coachella Music and Arts Festival, IDFA, DTLA film festival, and many more.