Dancing Crows - Video art - Tobias Gundorff Boesen

Tobias Gundorff Boesen, 'Birdcage - videostill', 2011

 Tobias Gundorff Boesen is an artist, animator and director, from Copenhagen, Denmark.

In 2011 Tobias entered a competition which assignment was to make a one-minutemovie around the theme - the notion of "place" - wether that might be interpreted as a geographical, an emotional space or a place of belonging.
Tobias Gundorff Boesen created 'Birdcage'.

Tobias Gundorff Boesen, 'Animatic for the screendance film Birdcage', 2011

Above you'll be able to see his amazing 'animatic' or 'moving storyboard'. A sublime preparation for an undertaking with lots of choreography. It must have been great to have been working with Tobias in such a professional way.

Shown below is the final result of Tobias G. Boesen's 'Birdcage' that has turned out absolutely stunning. 

The movements of the dancers aswell as the timing of the shots are perfectly synchronised with the music ( by Efterklang ).
The location is amazing, the thin white trees remind of the bars of a birdcage.
And the colours; white of the surrounding, black of the amazing costumes ( by Sandra Møller Svendsen ) and red of the raw meat, are very tasteful composed in every shot.

'Birdcage' is Beautiful in every detail.

Tobias Gundorff Boesen, 'Birdcage', 2011 (01:00 min)

Dancers/choreography: Tilde Nielsen, Hilde I Sandvold, Julie Rasmussen

Director & postproduktion: Tobias Gundorff Boesen

Producer: Senia Dremstrup

DOP: Andreas Berg

Costumes: Sandra Møller Svendsen

Makeup: Marie Westergaard

Sounddesign: Thomas Arent

Music: "I Was Playing Drums" by Efterklang

Assistants: Rolf Glumsøe & Anne

Tobias Gundorff Boesen

Flowers from Ei Ka - Video art - Karina Eibatova

Karina Eibatova or ‘Ei Ka’ is an illustrator and fine artist born in Leningrad, Russia. 

In 2010 she created a video named ‘Floral Anthem’ that has been exposed in Moscow and Berlin. 

Karina Eibatova, 'Flower Anthem', 2010, 9:41 min

‘Floral Anthem’ is a metaphor of a returning to paradise. A woman’s attempt to return to a state where she is pure again. As was the montage of the video, pure, no monologues, no sound at all.

Ei Ka herself also “went to the floral condition” as she beautifully describes the action in ‘Floral Anthem’. Though she is not the girl we see in the video, whom is absolutely perfect in her roll. It just shows the professionalism of the artist for exploring her subject completely.

Karina Eibatova, 'Studies for Floral Anthem' (Showing model and Ei Ka in the floral condition), 2010

The exposition of ‘Floral Anthem’ is always accompanied by a delicate ‘flower composition’ that finishes the video so perfectly. Maybe she even used scented flowers…

Karina Eibatova, 'Flower composition, part of Floral Anthem' 2010 Berlin

Karina Eibatova studied Classical Art Disciplines in St. Petersburg, Fine Art Education in Sweden, Contemporary Art in Moscow and will start this year as a student of the Media Art Class in Vienna. Wow… all that hard work definitely shows in her video work ‘Floral Anthem’. Can’t wait to see more.

Ei Ka