Nyarlahotep June 15, 2010
Posted by joost in : directing, film, music , comments closedMy housemate Annike has just finished her last year project for the London School of Fashion. She designed a costume inspired by the character Nyarlathotep (also known as the Crawling Chaos) by H.P. Lovecraft. Embedded in this costume is a glove with a series of sensors and electronics, enabling the performer (Tom Whiston / ascetic) to manipulate sound and music. Annike’s work will be exhibited at the Battersea Arts Centre later this month. As a companion piece to her work I shot a video depicting the costume and all-consuming entity that is Nyarlahotep:
BP Summer Big Screens 2010 entry Carmen June 4, 2010
Posted by joost in : commercial, directing, london , comments closedEvery year the Royal Opera House organizes several free open air broadcasts on big screens in London and other cities in the UK, sponsored by BP (…) in an attempt to make opera more accessible and popular. It’s basically a huge picnic while watching opera 
Part of all the festivities is a competition to create a really short film inspired by one of the operas. This year it is Bizet’s Carmen. The form can be really free, it’s really up to the maker to be creative, and that’s a brief which gave me the excuse to sink my teeth into something new; I decided to create an animated short that tries to convey the meaning of Carmen by using key text and graphics whizzing by. In order to realize this silly animated promo I taught myself the basics of After Effects, resulting in the following:
(click on the youtube logo to see the promo in glorious 1080p HD!)
The good news is that my short will be shown on the big screen at Trafalgar Square and other locations prior to the start of the opera!