ZERO SPACES - Portrait of Ranulph Glanville

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

Working with Ranulph was for me extremely important and formative and I have implemented some of his teachings into the process of film making process ever since. 

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 is in Performance and Dance >>

SUZANNA QUEIROGA

First two parts of a documentary about the rio based artist and the work about the loss of her father. Result of a truly magical studio visit with Guilherme Vergara.

MAB – MUSEO AFRO BRASIL

Image film for Museo afro brasil with focus on the educational team.

The brasilian sculptor and museum director Emanuel Araujo created the Museu Afro Brasil in São Paulo initially based on his vast collection of African Art. Now it is the most important institution representing a black cultural identity in brasil. The educational work of the museum is outstanding and I created a film highlighting their work.

In 2009 my father and me had a double exhibition at the Museu Afro Brasil which are documented in these two short videos. For Almir this was his favourite show in a museum that he had. Muito obrigado querido Emanoel!

AUTO DE PAIXÃO

Collaboration between Brazilian sculptor Romer De Andrade Lima and choreographer Renata Mattar in front of the MAB (Museo Afro Brasil), São Paulo. Black and White, full of expressive emotion you can not find in Europe. The gentleman handing the candle at the beginning is the amazing sculptor and museums director Emanoel Araujo.
​One of my first early videos on a canon 5D-MK2. Bit shaky.

EMILIE SUGAI/ AGUAS

Collaboration with the butho dance performer Emilie Sugai to create a piece for my Aguas series.

TONALi

TONALi is a competition, a festival and an 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 partnerships in eight countries beside Germany: Netherland, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Russia, USA and China. I was commissioned as a director, filming and editing this first TONALi project and it was also my first feature film length project. Especially the collaboration with Amadeus Templeton has greatly inspired me and music has become part of my life and art ever since.

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

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