Berlin Skin at an urban screening

Head Room is based on interviews of family members describing remembered rooms.Represented in a playful manner with flat 2D graphics, this film leaves out the spacial tricks of 3D to allow one's own mind to wander and imagine. As a cultural fixated on the representation of the physical world, Head Room, brings it back to the personal level to remind us that our spaces are inhabited by people, by us.

In my project, Berlin Skin, I used photographs of textures and forms and then animated these. The result was more of a city aura than a clear portrait and was intended to be shown projected onto buildings or outdoor environments while the drawings were meant for a gallery. The video piece has been shown outside around the world, for example, in Federation Square in Melbourne, or at the Glastonbury Festival in England. It premiered as part of the Animated Installation Exhibition at the Platform Film Festival in Portland, Oregon. Here is was projected onto an installation of hanging wallpaper.

The video and digital print project, Danger in the Streets of the Sky, played with VJ tools to generate new combinations of materials. The work was about the physical feeling of living in a dense urban city and used, for example, grids contrasted with birds, as a metaphor of our city structures.

Head Room