Anastasia Bleeding

This film has been on the back boiler for several months until recent events prompted me to finish editing it.  When I went back to the edit, I had to re-upload all the footage and what started out as an impossibly daunting task turned out to be one in which I learned from.  The fact that I had forged through these obstacles and produced something which I am quite pleased with in the end has been immensely satisfying and rewarding.  This is the first edit though and it is still a bit rough around the edges, but its a start.

The Omens are Good!

iphone drawing

Anja and Caro decided to consult the Rune Stones to see what the future has in store for KerstenWoods Productions.   Berkana, a Cycle Rune that stands for Growth, Rebirth and the Birch Tree was the chosen stone.  It bodes well for the future.

(Take a look at Collaboration for Caro’s view. Take a look at Transitions, death and rebirth for Anja’s view.)

Scratch Night clip

For Caro’s account of the evening, visit ‘my sketchbook pages‘.

For Anja’s account of the evening, visit ‘my creative journey’

Welcome to a new KerstenWoods Production!

 

Take a look at a review about this film by the 60 wrd/min critic, Lori Waxman

 

 

Virtual viewing of Cassandra is over now

We are happy to say that many people took the opportunity to watch Cassandra online, which took place over the last view days. Cassandra is available on DVD with lots of exciting additional material. For more information, have please a look at our page  Cassandra on DVD

You still can watch the trailer of Cassandra

Reflections on Cassandra and how it all started

We discussed our first short film Cassandra, which will be launched coming Friday. I recorded our discussion with the dictaphone. Here are some extracts from our conversation, worth while to share:

Anja: ”Cassandra is about different realities, where you don’t know whether it’s a past life or not.  I like to play with different realities. Is it this or is it that …  split parts.  It is a bit like cubism, where you take things apart and put them back together in another way.”

Caro: ”I love things in drawings, where one object dissolves into the other and sometimes you can’t define where the outline of an object is, because it melts into the other objects around it and in a sense it is what you are talking about.  The blurring of the boundaries, I’d like to see more of that in our work, more obvious blurring of the boundaries.”

Anja: “Cassandra lives in two separate worlds, the material world without spirit and the one where  her soul has exiled to and tries to contact her. Maybe it is about marrying these two worlds, you first have to take things apart and then you can put them together again.”

Caro: “Right and left brain. We all have elements of both.   Most of us have to live in this mad logical world trying to make ends meet, and not all of us are blessed with a right brain existence.  In a sense, it’s this constant conflict, and a longing for more creativity.  Just a need to express yourself in some way and yet feeling trapped in the daily grind.”

Anja: ” I wanted the film Cassandra to be very poetic. It is about different realities, in the black and white  one, if she would have talked, it would have broken her loneliness and would have given too much meaning to the words. Whereas the words from the other realm are more impactful that way. We see her communicating, on the phone, on the computer, but it does not matter, whereas the other world does matter a lot.”

Caro: “ Yes because that’s the world that means more.   The spirit, the soul I suppose.   The black and white world of the film is the world of functioning which is all wrapped up in technology and industry.  You’re going through all the motions.  When you are set free from all that, it is like a bird, you can soar above it all.  Isn’t that just amazing?”

Bus Stop Apparitions

Found this apparition at the bus stop and decided to make a ‘sketch’ video of it!