Women Are Heroes (working title) is the first film directed by JR.
 It tells, in images, the surprising human and artistic adventure of the three years of work around the “Women are Heroes” project.

The film is a tribute to women which dignity is underlined by posting their portraits on the walls of their village and of the whole world. In the film, women express their difficulties in a world dominated by men. In front of the camera, their share their nightmares to exorcise them, but their also offer their joy and radiate their energy …

The film follows the extravagant adventures for which the happy end is never sure: from the presentation of the artistic project to the inhabitants of small villages in Liberia to the organization of a posting in a favela with fragile walls, from the exhibition on houses being demolished in Cambodia to the wrapping of the train that crosses a shantytown in Kenya.

Each day, we are surrounded by seemingly insignificant objects, taking them from one place to the other, or leaving them on a table for weeks, without paying any attention to them. We ignore or forget them, using things only when we need to, making sure they don’t interfere or inhabit our space. But what if they were not so stable and subservient? What if they could swivel, bounce or even fly. And what if they did so all at the same time?

Julien Vallée and Nicolas Burrows want to imagine a place where objects could live and move, harmoniously, and of their own accord. Without interfering with each other these objects would bounce, roll, turn and cross each other’s paths. This experiment is about re-discovering our daily surroundings.

Above  is the making of the interactive video that was originally made for the If You Could Collaborate exhibition. Each object is assigned to a letter on the keyboard, and can be activated or deactivated at any time. The online version will be soon available to play with at dansedance.com

Box Animation is a 3D animation created by Canadian Motion Designer, Jordan Clarke. The animation was presented as an Event installation using matchmoving and compositing techniques.  Box materials were hand painted and scanned into the computer to create the materials for this project.

Urban Screening was produced by  design students from the Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile. The students turned the movie into a giant light projection using the walls of the campus building.

“Man as Industrial Palace” is an interactive installation based on a poster by Fritz Kahn from 1926, exploring the six cycles within the human factory. From the moment on that Henning Lederer got to know Kahn’s poster “Man as Industrial Palace” in 2006, he had the idea to animate this complex and strange way of explaining the functions of a body. He wanted to continue Fritz Kahn’s act of replacing a biological with a technological structure by transferring this depiction with the help of motion graphics and animation.

In addition to the moving images, as a framework, Henning created a cabinet for his work including a mixture of old and new technology. This new version of the “Industrial Palace“ is an installation for the audience to interact with – and by this to explore the different cycles of this human machinery.