Margit Lukács was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1973 and Persijn Broersen was born in Delft, The Netherlands in 1974. They currently live and work in Amsterdam. They both studied Graphic Design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam from 1994-1998, and completed Masters degrees in Design and Fine Arts at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam from 1998-2001. Their work has been exhibited throughout the Netherlands and in various other countries including China, India and Japan, and they participated in the International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2005. Broersen and Lukács create videos that employ footage in a number of ways, including scenes they have filmed themselves, images appropriated from television news reports, and digitally animated segments to create flowing, smoothly edited montages.

Every day, news reports and other TV images pass by in an endless stream that numbs the viewer, who, as if hypnotized, does nothing more than watch and watch: constantly zapping to the next image or channel, in a steady flow; there is no more standing still. Attention is fragmentary; identification and reflection are impossible, there is always something happening, and old and new images crop up time and again in different places: behind a mountain a town is burning; a soldier is aiming his gun; a girl is screaming; a (destroyed) beach lies next to the building where a UN top meeting is taking place. Broersen and Lukács have compiled a spatial collage out of innumerable television images, like a scale model. It is not the images that move; they are standing stock-still in a media landscape, the global paradise that is accessible to everyone.

In the film Crossing the Rainbow Bridge, Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukàcs are pushing artistic form and content to the limit. With a grand gesture, they open the floodgates of sentiment, but ingeniously prevent it all from turning into treacle. The film is shown on split screen, with the two parts sometimes complementing each other, sometimes being played off against each other. A simple story develops amidst this fragmentation, about two young people who are apparently involved in a love affair, and are thinking about each other. Their thoughts include the usual lovers’ dreams and tender reflections. Sometimes the camera takes over their musing, in a sort of 'visual thinking'. Action, patterns and images then melt together, and continue the story in a poetically associative manner. Sometimes the lovers find each other and sing a song together. And then she says: it seems as if everything is connected.

Ordinary story about ordinary people. Almost melodramatic stories filled with emptiness of human everyday life. At the moment we realize that the empty space does not exist outside of these 'ordinary people'. On the contrary, their origin reveals us that the author had completely different intentions.

Ordinary story about ordinary people. Almost melodramatic stories filled with emptiness of human everyday life. At the moment we realize that the empty space does not exist outside of these 'ordinary people'. On the contrary, their origin reveals us that the author had completely different intentions.