With a very simple light set up I experiment with portraying people in my homestudio. Finally I would like to move this studio to the streets of different cities.
The Homestudio Sessions
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Вилия Vilia Camera
After experimenting with the younger Smenha camera, I loaded the next film to the 35mm camera called Vilia. The camera was made by BelOMO and produced between 1973-86 with quantity of about 2.000.000 units. The camera was named after the river Вилия = Vilia in Belorussia and Lithuania. Sadly the casing is not 100% light proof, but anyway it makes a nice effect.
The CMEHA Symbol
I bought some really oldfashioned cameras and one of them is the Smena Symbol (Смена Символ).
It is a viewfinder 35mm film camera made by LOMO and produced between 1970-93. Smena Symbol = Смена Символ, Smena means Young Generation or Relay. The following pictures are the first try out!
DARKroom experiments
I started working in a dark room again. Taking part in a fotoclub in vienna I used their profession to experiment with some old cameras, and develope the results myself.
Despegar – Perla by Javi
Brussels 2013
Director: Tobias Pehböck
For a workshop with the brussels based documentary film director Laurent Van Lancker I created two shorts. Our Job was to find somebody who tells us a story as he is going trough it at the moment. We only record the voice with our character, and with the voice we create two films, one with footage we shoot and one only with found footage. In only three days we created 3 mini films in this workshop, so please enjoy two of them!
Szechenyi Hidmester
Budapest 2013
Director: Diana Pacheco, Tobias Pehböck
Fazekas János is the bridge keeper of the Szechenyi Bridge, the oldest bridge of Budapest. His family is taking care of this bridge already in the third generation. Growing up always related and strongly connected to this bridge, János decided to give up his career as solo guitarist and animation drawer, and take over his fathers job as a bridge keeper.
For the task “One man one day” of the documentary directing class with Tamas Almasi and Attila Kèkesi, Diana Pacheco, my colleague from Ecuador and me decided to follow Fasekas János one day in his Job as a bridge keeper, taking care of the myth-enshrouded beautiful chain bridge.
We tried to describe one cycle in checking the bridge, following János to the places at the bridge only a view people know of. Furthermore we re-created as a task all the sounds that happened in the places. We recorded sounds (footsteps, cars, bikes, drops) and collected sounds from sound libaries to create the mood we experienced while shooting.
The Water Flux
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. – Heraclitus
THE WATER FLUX
Have you ever felt really thirsty? Have you ever been in the rain? Have you ever seen the ocean? Human life is designed by the perpetual presence and need of water. As the water flux changes, we change as well. Yet this relationship has had an evolution in which humanity has played a major role and has found different senses to water’s existence, thus we create different definitions of our existence. Water is life, but water is also joy, love, dreams, wealth, business, adventure, misfortune, destruction or death. Through water we live and through it we see ourselves, our days past and our days to come. What is water to you?
The Water Flux is an audiovisual web-based collaborative experiment in which we see ourselves in this world. It collects short personal documentary films from all over the world exploring our relation with water, either in abundance or lack, no matter if water is tears or clouds, or if we drink it or flush it. It is a space for discussion, for artistic experimentation, for environmental awareness, for political outreach and mainly for everybody to express their (his or her?) ideas on film.
16mm Film Workshop
This summer I had the great opportunity to work with 16mm Film first time in my life. During the cinema copains course at the summer academy salzburg we went trough all the steps of filmmaking, starting from preparing and cleaning the 16mm Cameras (we shot on old bolex cameras) to editing on the lighting table by hands counting frames. We developed 16mm black and white footage with an awesome recipe, all the ingredients you can find in your household, one of it is coffee! The biggest challenge was to rethink your shooting strategy, as you can only work with short amount of footage (3min) and 30sec of maximum oneshot length.
Here some impressions:
Musicvideo for Rambo Rambo Rambo
Some weeks ago I had the pleasure to shoot with the guys from “Rambo Rambo Rambo”. The first job with my new colleague Paul Batruel, who is also responsible for the editing. I hope you enjoy the clip and their music!
Research at Props.co
I started my research for a new documentary at the storehouse of props.co, the biggest collection of everyday items used for film and theater. I took some snapshots while working on a trailer with Björn, Piers and Germaine. In the following we did a short Trailer for a possible film there.
