Kirsten Lepore
Los Angeles
Bottle 2010, 5:25
Kirsten Lepore is a
director and animator based in Los Angeles, she has a Master of
Fine Art from CalArts. She was recently featured as a rising talent in
Shots Magazine, Animation Magazine, Focus Features, and is named as one
of the 50 most creative people of 2011 by Creativity Magazine. Her
work has been featured at various international film festivals and won
multiple awards and prizes.
Bottle is stop-motion short film which details a transoceanic conversation between two characters via objects in a bottle.
Tone Kristin Bjordam
Norway
Critical transitions 2012, 15:00
Born 1975, Lives and works
in Oslo, Norway. She graduated from National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo
in 2007. Critical Transition had it’s premiere screening at ESA
Conference 2012 (Ecological Society of America) in Portland,
Oregon, USA and subsequently at Paradiso Concert Hall, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands and
Politecnico di Milano,
Italy. Critical Transitions was shown at the international conference
"Transformation in a Changing Climate" in June 2013, organized by the
University of Oslo in cooperation with CICERO, Stockholm Resilience
Centre, the International Social Science Council and the UN Climate
Panel (IPCC). It was also selected to be shown by Rom for Kunst and Oslo
Screen Festival in July and August 2013. The art video will
also be shown at the international exhibition Life Art Worldwide
Showcase, Sunshine Coast, Australia, October 25 - November 3, 2013.
Critical Transitions is a
collaboration between ecologist, scientist and musician
Marten Scheffer from The Netherlands and Tone Kristin Bjordam. Climate,
forests, coral reefs, financial markets and even our minds occasionally
reach a tipping point where they go through a radical transformation.
Foreseeing such critical transitions or even noticing that they are
unfolding is challenging as they are embedded in the omnipresent
permanent flow of change.
18bis
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Me bird 2013, 2:24
18bis is a
multidisciplinary design, animation and motion graphics studio based in
Brazil. All 18bis mixed-media projects are born from keyframe, drawing,
ink, paper and light. The Me bird has won numerous international awards
and prizes.
The Me Bird is a free
interpretation of the homonym poem by Pablo Neruda. The inspiration in
the strata stencil technique helps conceptualize the repetition of
layers as the past of our movements and actions. The frames depicted as
jail and the past as a burden serve as the background for the story of a
ballerina on a journey towards freedom. A diversified artistic
experimentation recreates the tempest that connects bird and dancer.
Pekka Sassi
Finland
Bird 2004, 2:40
Pekka Sassi (b. 1969) is a
Helsinki-based artist whose output consists of experimental sound and
video works, many of which are purely sound pieces and audio
installations. His works have been presented at several finnish and
international festivals and he was awarded the annual AVEK Prize for
audio-visual art in 2006. Best film in European Media Art Festival,
Osnabrücke 2010.
Bird is a cinematographic poem, based by Contantin Brancusi’s sculpture ‘Bird in Space’
Lorenzo Fonda
Italy, Los Angeles
Ten things I have learned about the sea 2011, 10.25
Lorenzo Fonda was born in
Italy in 1979. He studied at the Fabrica center for research in visual
communication. He works as an artist, grafic designer, film maker,
animator and documentary maker and is represented by production
companies in Italy, London and New York. His dokumentary Megunica,
about street artist and animator Blu went on to win several awards. In
2010 he moved to Los Angeles, where he currently lives and work. His
current project is a new documentary film called Archaeology of the
future, it is shot between Italy and California.
Ten things I have learned
about the sea is based on footage shot by the artist on the cargo
ship "Portland Senator" on the route from Los Angeles to Shanghai, in
December 2008 during 17day long trip.
Dasha Esselius
Sweden
The Brainstorm 2007, 13:30
Dascha Esselius was born
1953 in Prague and moved to Sweden in 1969. She is based in
Stockholm. Dascha works with video, photography, sound, installations,
painting, sculpture and public art. In her artistic practice she
explores aspects of the documentary mode; the tension between the
fantastic and the realistic. She is interested in social contexts but
also in the inner landscape of the imagination and especially in the
interaction between these two worlds. This parallel experience was also
the starting point of her work during the polar expedition Beringia in
2005, which resulted in the videos The Lace, The Brainstorm and Fruits
de mer.
The Brainstorm is taken in
one shot on the helicopter apron on the icebreaker Oden on her way to
Wrangel Island in the Artic Ocean.
Two scientists, professors
of each subject are deeply engaged in a discussion. The contact of their
mines creates a flow of new, humoristic and unexpected shapes and
transforms their bodies to one form which continuously mutates until
everything implodes and disappears in a horizontal line. The original
sound is digitally processed.
