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Superplus Capture the ‘Soul of Design’ for 13&9

After coming across the intersection of living canvas and geometric light show to promote Austrian design label 13&9 earlier this month, we asked the folks over at Superplus to give us a peak into how they went about creating the abstract piece. “The video is part of an overall concept for 13&9 design that revolves [...]

Running Away Into You

Beginning as a an art school assignment but later developing a life of its own, experimental film Running Away Into You from Israeli graphic designers Benjamin Trigalou and Liran Lin was inspired by John Frusciante’s song of the same name and takes us on a distorted journey which mirrors the track’s soundscape.

DN289: Paralyze – Anders Malmberg

In Paralyze, the first music video to come from Jannis Noya Makrigiannis’ musical project Choir of Young Believers, Danish director Anders Malmberg entrances with painterly compositions, beckoning dolly moves and transcendent shots. He joins us this week to discuss creating work imbued with a sculptural feeling through his formalistic approach to filmmaking.

Addressing the Uncertainty of Danger in Lord of the Flies Adaptation ‘In the Wake of Sirens’

Set within the confines of a locked car, Nathan Coetzee’s short In the Wake of Sirens is a modern, impressionistic re-staging of William Golding’s classic novel Lord of the Flies, which remains true to the spirit of the original whilst pushing it into uncharted territory. We asked the London based filmmaker to take DN through the daunting task of adapting and transforming such a classic text.

AALTERATE

Director Christobal de Oliveira, post-production house Sabotage Studio (The Gloaming) and production company Autour de Minuit (The Monster of Nix & Logorama) combine to create the bewitching and innovative animated short AALTERATE. Diving into a coma, a female body experiences extreme inner tension. Its mutating silhouette gradually invades an empty space to a point of [...]

13&9

A dancing model is transformed into a living canvas for the geometric light show created by Superplus for Austrian design label 13&9.

DN287: I Love Your Work – Jonathan Harris

Inspired by the structure of porn teaser clips, Jonathan Harris’ latest project I Love Your Work, sees him create an interactive documentary which profiles the lives of nine women who make lesbian porn. Jonathan joins us to discuss the internet’s role as a planetary meta-organism and his experiments in monetising digital art through artificial scarcity.

SILK

Cologne based visual artist Susi Sie continues to boggle presumptions with her latest experimental film SILK and her non-use of 3D or animation on projects which look like they should be impossible to achieve through solely physical means.

Elements

German video and sound designer Frederic Kokott re-utilises old footage to create the mirrored, abstract images of his experimental film Elements.

Circa

Encompassed by Echoic’s piano score and sound design along with Victoria Klewin’s haunting vocals, the further away we get from from Hypoly’s Circa, the more it reveals of its muted landscapes.

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