THE 7 DEADLY SINS
Fifty digital animated backgrounds for the stage, art direction, and a website for the last short opera by K. Weill and B. Brecht. First performance: Seville, Monasterio de la Cartuja, Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art. The opening was produced by BMW Spain. My work and vision were appreciated by the Kurt Weill Foundation of New York. (Click on the video thumbnail to view it full size.)
In a Persian Market
The UV Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates its anniversary by selecting pieces inspired by various places around the world, composed by Ketelbey in the mid-19th century. I was commissioned to illustrate with video the piece that gives this post its title. The assignment: to reveal the reality of present-day Iran beneath the West’s orientalist fantasies about Persia that inspired the score.
I decided to focus on a motion graphics piece, blending classical works by 19th-century orientalist painters with reproductions of authentic Persian art—wonderful miniatures and the frescoes of the Chehel Sotún Palace in Isfahan—which, through simple animations, reveal contemporary photographs depicting a much less happy and colorful reality.
OCEANOGRÁFICO DE VALENCIA
Large-scale visuals (30 minutes of artistic animation) projected onto a 50 x 9 meter wall for the opening show of the Oceanographic Museum in Valencia. (Click on the video thumbnail to view a short excerpt in full size.)
