PORTFOLIO

Animated film by Pola Kazak premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival.

"Far ahead are endless fields covered with weeds. In the middle of them lies a beautiful garden, carefully tended by the Gardener. Her endurance is tested when a violent storm breaks out and her garden is overrun by weed seeds. An innocent encounter slowly turns into a fight to the death. The gardener tries with all her might to triumph over the elemental force, but her fear and her desire to resist the intruders at all costs could put her whole world at risk."

"To celebrate Lunar New Year, we have returned to China to meet the families that are keeping time-honoured traditions and handcraft skills alive.

Visiting the Liu family, we delved into shadow puppetry, a centuries-old form of Chinese theatre that involves colourful silhouette figures being manoeuvred on rods in front of a back-lit translucent screen.

It can take over ten years to become a master puppeteer as the complex performances involve learning a variety of skills and disciplines, including improvisational singing, playing musical instruments, and simultaneously manipulating several puppets. The puppeteers often build their own puppets from leather or paper, which can have up to twenty-four moving joints." - LOEWE.

A film about On Display. ON DISPLAY is a deconstructed art exhibit/fashion show and commentary on the body as spectacle and society's obsession with body image. It turns a cast of diverse and extreme bodies into a sculpture court where the performers are the sculptures. ON DISPLAY began as a simple human sculpture court and is now a movement, a growing portfolio of works that explore and demonstrate inclusion through art. The performers wore wearables by NuVu studio.

Film by: Amro Arida
Music by: Sergey Cheremisinov
Installation by: Heidi Latsky Dance
Wearables by: NuVu Studio

An adolescent school girl and her teenage lover meet across at the village by dawn to set out for a trip to the town. Infuriated by the presence of a stranger along with the boy, she expresses her hesitance, however, he comforts and convinces her that the stranger will leave them in the bus stop and the trio begins their journey. Passing through the hilly peripheral suburbs of Kerala, they reach out at the heart of the city. Tall buildings to shopping precinct, the girl is astounded and excited. Resuming their journey back in the evening, things take a wild turn, later unfolding inevitable intriguing incidents.

What it takes to climb the world’s first 9c? Let’s find out in Silence, a movie by Bernardo Giménez. It shows what preceded the afternoon of September 3, 2017 when Adam Ondra, a professional rock climber and currently one of the best climbers in the world, made a little piece of climbing history when he climbed his project in the spectacular Hanshelleren Cave in Norway. The route, later named Silence, received a new grade of 9c and became the hardest route in the world.

"We are a group of architects and designers creating an interdisciplinary design studio.

The implemented tasks deal with architecture, interior and product design. Our ideas are characterized by bold and unconventional approach to various themes. The name of our studio was taken from the Latin ‘genius loci’ signifying the caring spirit of the place and refers to the design method in which we seek relationship and context. We attach great importance to harmonious, consistent and functional design, searching for inspiration in the surrounding world." - GIE EL

An urgent meditation on the legacy of revolutionary war and colonialism framed by the combatants, survivors and inheritors of violence.

1965: Che Guevara undertakes a secret mission to DR Congo to support the liberation movement. Fifty years later we travel to Belgium, Cuba, Tanzania and eastern Congo in search of those who fought alongside – and against - this global icon. We find the Belgian former mercenary who says his years fighting in the mountains of eastern Congo were the best of his life; the Cuban generals and Congolese soldiers trained by Che Guevara. We hear from men and women as they strive to raise their children in the long shadows of war and coloniality.

Narrated by a Congolese radio journalist, a revolutionary politics of love and compassion unfolds.

"In a matter of seconds, my entire world changed, and it was in that moment that I stopped living and simply began to exist.

In my grief, I sent a letter to the first boy I ever loved. I hoped in writing it I'd find some peace from the nightmare I was living, some solace in my anger

I didn't expect him to write back. I wasn't prepared for his words, and I certainly wasn't ready for the impact this soldier would have on my life. A deep-rooted hate transformed into friendship, and then molded into a love like I'd never known before.

Sergeant Devin Ulysses Clay did what I couldn't: He put the shattered pieces of my heart back together, restoring my faith in humanity and teaching me how to live again.

But now that I'm whole, I have a decision to make: Do I return to my life as I knew it and the fiancé I left behind, or do I walk away from it all for the only man to ever break my heart?"

Book by B.T. Urruela and K.L. Grayson.