“Finally. An engaged and thoughtful full-on narrative illuminating the work of Holland's preeminent film director, Louis van Gasteren. Patricia Pisters's Filming for the Future is an unflinching and deft rendering of the six decades of van Gasteren's films; the writer giving blood, flesh and story to a complicated and controversial artist's obsessions and aesthetics. Like her subject's work, Pisters eschews cliché and slippery ideas to cement well-wrought and hard earned research that throws bright light onto the times and temperament of van Gasteren's work. Filming for the Future is an essential complement to understanding van Gasteren's life, films and obsessions.”
— Michael Martin, author of Extended Remark: Poems from a Moravian Parking Lot
"Unique attempt to interpret the multifaceted and multilayered oeuvre of the Grand Old Man of Dutch documentary in an all-encompassing treatise. A great achievement!"
— Hans Beerekamp, former film critic and current TV critic, NRC Handelsblad