Children performance about a girl that follow her own shadow into the shadow world. Together with the graphical designer Siri Carlslund we created a visual storyboard for the performance and created all the shadow worlds she was entering. It was double-projected from front and back to be able to create a layered shadow play (where the shadow could get behind and in front of video we projected). I also had two kinects to manipulate her real shadow, and delay it. And also to make the worlds react on her position. It all is packed in a van and is able to be put up in 3 hours.
- THE ONE WITH THE ASYLUMSEEKERS AND SOME REJECTED ONES
Spring 2010, NYAVENY A live theatre performance and sit-com recording in front of a live studio audience.
For 10 seasons the all time favourite sit com Friends aired all over the world. A show about ordinary people with ordinary problems, trying make it work in New York. Trying to get a job, a place to live, maybe get a girlfriend, or try to get rid of one.
This theatre performance casted some other ordinary people who just wants to make their lives work. A group of asylum seekers living in the asylum camps around Copenhagen starred in the roles as the six friends.
For 13 episodes they where hanging out in Central Perk instead of the camps in a serial performance. It was just like real friends, just like real life. Just a little bit funnier.
For the performance i created a simple minimalistic live editing station where i could mix different cameras, add chroma key and subtitles live to the audience. Both in the studio and live on the internet. The performance was directed by Tue Bierring and Jeppe Kristensen, the same people doing Pretty Woman A/S
Winter 2009, Teater CampX, Copenhagen The past 5 weeks i’ve been working on a theatre play on theatre CampX called Hush Little Baby as video/image designer. And last week we had opening night after a pretty tuff period. The play is about Filipino au-pairs that travel abroad to earn money, leaving family and children behind in the Philippines. And here in the west they live without any legal protection from their homeland, and earn money under a system that was intended for something completely different. In the play we got some philipin women telling us these stories, together with 3 danish actors that tell the danish story about getting a girl into the house.
So the next 4 weeks i’m going to control sound and video every night at CampX together with these wonderfull people.
Fall 2008, Halmtorvet Copenhagen Tue Biering and Jeppe Kristensen created a theatre play which was based on the well known movie called Pretty Woman, but this time performed in 3 containers put together on halmtorvet in copenhagen with room for 50 audience and with a real prostitute from copenhagen on stage every evening. The play was probably the most discussed cultural event in copenhagen this fall. Many politicians went out without knowing anything about the play and taking distance from the project. Even though the organizations that are supporting the prostitutes where supporting the project. The discussion resulted that we had fully booked already before the premiere.
We wanted to create a film-like feeling in the play, so the whole play was recorded with cameras and shown on monitors above the small stage live edited by me. So the audience could look into the hotelroom that we had build (with a glasswall between the audience and the actors) and at the same time look up and see our cut of the movie. To make the delay between the real actors and the tv-monitors as short as possible, i had to buy a old videomixer (Panasonic WJ-MX50) with all the oldschool effects and sit live and cut between the cameras. And have lots and lots of BNC video cables.
Hotel Pro Forma, spring 2008 I assisted Andreas Buhl on video and light on Hotel Pro Forma‘s performance called Relief, and assisted on animating several of the videos. Hotel Pro Forma is a copenhagen based performance group that creates very non-traditional plays in different theatres all over the world. Many of the plays are shown touring around, including this that has been shown around in europe and in Copenhagen.
CampX, fall 2007
I helped do the video on the play called QUEER on CampX Aveny. It was a big performance with lots of televisions we had to control individually, and 3 projectors. I ended up helping on the techicnical side of the setup, doing some of the video material and running all the video every evening.
