SKETCH 1: BOXES
Directed by Anastasia Afonina
Cast: Jos Smit, Grazyna Frackiewicz, Elliot Devine-King, Isabella Knuijt, Irina Volgareva,
Cinematography by Ray van der Bas and Kleoniki Stanich
Special thanks to Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Cast: Jos Smit, Grazyna Frackiewicz, Elliot Devine-King, Isabella Knuijt, Irina Volgareva,
Cinematography by Ray van der Bas and Kleoniki Stanich
Special thanks to Ripley's Believe It or Not!
WHY DON'T YOU LISTEN?
Directed by Anastasia Afonina
Cast: Jos Smit, Grazyna Frackiewicz, Elliot Devine-King, Isabella Knuijt, Irina Volgareva,
Cinematography by Ray van der Bas and Kleoniki Stanich
Special thanks to Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Cast: Jos Smit, Grazyna Frackiewicz, Elliot Devine-King, Isabella Knuijt, Irina Volgareva,
Cinematography by Ray van der Bas and Kleoniki Stanich
Special thanks to Ripley's Believe It or Not!
SKETCH 1: BOXES
1/3
After fifteen minutes of knowing my new idol, he stops looking like an old wise man and appears as a lonely elderly.
2/3
This is one of my projects that will never be finished, but also the one that I keep coming back to. It transforms from drawings to photographs, to video, then back to drawings.
This work is based on a story of one elderly person I met a few years ago. In a half an hour he told me stories of his life, full of bright and extraordinary events. It felt like I met Hemingway - my childhood idol.
This work is based on a story of one elderly person I met a few years ago. In a half an hour he told me stories of his life, full of bright and extraordinary events. It felt like I met Hemingway - my childhood idol.
Jumping from one story to another, talking about a few decades at the same time he mentioned a whole lot of names and adventures. For instance how he immigrated from Asia to America, then to Europe, or how he chased spies. In my eyes, he was a person with no age, yet knowing life.
After fifteen minutes of knowing my new idol, he stops looking like an old wise man and appears as a lonely elderly.
After fifteen minutes of knowing my new idol, he stops looking like an old wise man and appears as a lonely elderly.
I started to ask myself if his stories are true. Where are his friends he so enthusiastically talked about? Where are the spies? Why does he live in an apartment filled with cardboard boxes? Why am I listening to him?
He is flirting with the girl. He seems to be quite easy-going and funny man with no age. His life is full of exciting happenings and adventures.
Little drama between lovers. We don't know what happened, but the man with no age seems to be involved in this affair. He walks away to have fun.
Phone is interrupting man with no age from having fun with another girl. Party is going hard. Music is loud. The man with no age cannot hear well. He says: 'Hello? Hello?...'
I can't hear you! Hello?...' - he says. But he is not at the party. ...Where is he? What happened to his friends? Was it a flashback? ...or does he lives in his imaginary world?
PREHISTORY
PREHISTORY
3/3
Loneliness and a loner's perception of the world interested me for a while. About ten years ago I wrote a story about a loner who lived with a cardboard dog. I was surprised to meet him in real life ten years later.