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Playing at Transformator, Aalborg Teater, thru December 22.

A couple of photos from a recent photo session with actor Andreas Jebro, who needed some new photos for his portfolio.

Over the past weeks, I’ve worked with a bunch of my old photos of a friend of mine, the brazilian modern dancer Sandro Masai in order to produce 14 short films to display during two classical concerts in Århus and Aalborg respectively. Each film was made of two copies of the same photo, one in a black & white state, another in a very colorful and dynamic state. In Final Cut Pro I created a transition between the two photos and matched the length of the film with the movement it had to accompany. In its essence a very simple process, but I sure did put a lot of hours into the color-processing and not to forget the selection of the photos.

I was really surprised with how well the outcome transferred onto the big big screens – especially in Aalborg (Nordkraft – the photo above) the photos came to live (literally). That screen was handmade from the canvas of an old cinema screen and build for the occasion. It has been fun reviewing a lot of old work and putting it up against another expression of art.

More photos at Flickr.

On Monday I had my first showing of the photo series I’ve created and programmed to run during a performance by a group of young and talented classical musicians at Musikhuset in Aarhus. Tonight, they will perform the same concert at Nordkraft in Aalborg and I’ll be there adding my visual layer to their performance once again.

The concert is Le Carnaval des Animaux – or just Carnival of the Animals – by Camille Saint-Saëns. The 14 movements portray specific animals or species and is a very pedagogical musical suite. My photos accompany the movements in both an interpretative sense and as an additional visual and colourful layer.