Emil Agnesson

Portrait of Agnes & Emil. A film about care and motherhood.

ZERO SPACES - Portrait of Ranulph Glanville

Portrait of Ranulph Glanville, Research Head for Design at the Royal College of Arts, London. Commissioned by IDE, Innovation Design Engineering, Prof Miles Pennington and Ashley Hall in 2016, 44min

These two films have not been produced for the Helen Hamlyn Trust but are also dealing with themes of autism and aging and the theme of inclusive design. Touch*Play was a collaboration with an RCA designer and Communities of Care was commissioned by the Design Council.

TOUCH*PLAY

​RCA Designer Lingjing Yin approached me to help her documenting her research for TOUCH*PLAY, a device made for children and people with autism. We visited the wonderful child Sarah a few times and documented her interactions with the device and the feed back of the parents. The project was successful and also the film really helped the designer and won the Helen Hamlyn inclusive award and other prizes. This film is one of my most viewed shorter films on vimeo and a good example for research collaborative film work.

COMMUNITIES OF CARE

I was commissioned by Vivienne Heyhoe (Service Designer and managing the project) to support a bid of the Design Council London creating a new programme ‚Communities of care‘ where people of age, service providers and social entrepreneurs collaborate. The project did not exist yet and the challenge was to follow the researchers Jo Blundell, Niall Morahan and Holly Mahoney meeting people in various communities in Manchester and Cornwall. I had great freedom by the team leader and the film was received well and together with the written research won the Big Lottery Fund bid and the project was realised in Manchester and Cornwall.

WEAPON IS MY MOUTH

Commissioned by Leo Vidigal and part of his post doctoral research work on sound systems. Sound edit by Florian Siegmund, Housebuildingsound. © 2016, 52min

The film is in itself also a research on how films can be viewed. I developed the idea of editing the film for a dancing audience:
the takes are longer and the entire soundtrack and all interviews have continuing music. We have screened it in London and various places in Brasil.

CONCORD ACADEMY

Documentation of the interaction and collaboration between sculpture students at the RCA and visiting high school students of the concord academy USA. Show case of the performances and Studie of the different pedagogical approaches of choreographer Richard Colton and Head of Sculpture Programm Richard Wentworth. The second film following the dancers in Concord/US.

TONALi

TONALi is a competition, a festival and a cultural programme young classical music soloists (piano, cello, violin) collaborate with schools reaching thousands of children and young people creating their audience for the future. It was founded by Amadeus Templeton and Boris Matchin in Hamburg and has now many international partnerships, i.e.: Netherland, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Russia, USA and China.

One scene showing the three finalists just before receiving the jury's price.