Oerd van Cuijlenborg studied autonomous art at Utrecht School of Arts (HKU) where he graduated in 1997. During his studies, as an autodidact, he began experimenting with animation and he made a series of short animation films without sound entitled MOTION PAINTINGS. With his scratchy, dynamic style he explores the boundary between the abstract and the figurative. Norman McLaren is a great source of inspiration, as are Oskar Fischinger, Len Lye, Caroline Leaf and Charlie Chaplin. Coincidence plays an important role in his method of working, planning does not. He made his first film JAZZIMATION (1999) as a participant at the Ateliers at the Netherlands Institute for Animation film. In the same period he produced the film SCRATCH (2000), a film in which both image and sound are drawn directly on the film. With il Luster Productions he made the film KOPPIG for the DICHT/VORM series, based on the Mustafa Stitou’s poem with the same name. In 2000 Oerd van Cuijlenborg went to France for an artist-in-residence place at the Folimage animation studio where he made the film ZODIAC (2001). In 2005 his film 8.1, an abstract visualisation of the first movement of Franz Schubert’s 8th symphony, had its premiere. Oerd also made a short sequel to JAZZIMATION entitled DJIZZAZZY (2003), not yet in distribution. Oerd currently lives in Paris where he makes many commercials and video-clips. In addition he regularly produces independent work and has various projects in progress: a short scratch film, an animation eries to classic classical music, such as 8.1, and the second film in the trilogy which began with ZODIAC, entitled PINAX, this time with more and more experimental animation. With il Luster Productions he produced the several VSB poetry films and AN ABSTRACT DAY, a short film.