[TALKING TREES]

4K UHD video, color, stereo sound, 03:09 minutes, 2015-20
moving images and sound design: Dejan Radovanovic

screenings:

THE CREATORS PROJECT:

Tree trunks become an ecosystem of short films in Dejan Radovanovic's reimagined woodlands.

Enter a Computer Generated Forest of 'Talking Trees'

Patchworks of projected films canopy the trees in Vancouver-based filmmaker Dejan Radovanovic’s future forest,Talking Trees. "[The project] is my unfinished study imagined as meditative piece which attempts to take viewer on a continuous introspective walk,” Radovanovic tells The Creators Project. The filmmaker began filming the project in the evergreens of British Columbia but then took to the studio to create and animate his cinematic conifers. “First I made a projection map for my trees using fragments from my previous works and then rendered a whole animation with 3ds Max using that map in material slot,” he explains. “At the end, I blended layers in After Effects and added sound in Premiere. The sound is made with mixing field recording and sounds generated with great iVCS3 emulation on iPad.” Talking Trees’ reimagined landscape is a kind of natural database of Radovanovic’s creative portfolio, a crop of ready-made video fragments.

Sami Emory , writer, Jun 2015.

PLATFORMS 2020: PUBLIC WORKS - corner of Robson and Granville, Vancouver BC November 2nd to 29th

DISTANT NATURE - Knoll Galerie Wien , 10.7 – 13.7.2020 Vienna, Austria . Curated by Katarína Balúnová

ART SALON KANADSKIH SRBA, Biblioteka grada Beograda 22.6.-10.7.2018. Belgrade, Serbia

ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL - SEMBRANDO CINE 2017 - 24Jun Casa De La Literatura, 22 July Ventana Indiscreta

DIGITAL CANVAS - ikonoTV's 24-hour program of Digital Art brings together 20 outstanding international artists with more than 60 works that explicitly employ the use of electronic and digital tools while making direct references to art history by incorporating traditional disciplines.Digital Canvas will be broadcast exclusively on ikonoTV for 24 hours, starting on May 7th 2016 at 6PM (CET). It will premiere during the Creative Tech Week in New York, on the 28th and 29th of April. Curated by Vanina Saracino.

9th ECOZINE FILM FESTIVAL -International Film and Environment of Zaragoza, Spain, on 10th of May 2016. Organized by Asociación Cultural Ecozine and City of Zaragoza.

JORDAN NOBLES: EMERGENT BEHAVIOUR

4K UHD video, color, stereo sound, 10:32 minutes, 2021-22

A film by Dejan Radovanovic

Award-winning composer Jordan Nobles composed Emergent Behaviour in 2009. This recording was made in 2021 when large in-person gatherings of musicians were still prohibited. Members of Vancouver's Tempest Flute Ensemble, Capilano Flute Choir, and other flutists from the Vancouver community recorded their parts in isolation. These video recordings were then merged by Nobles and filmmaker Dejan Radovanovic into a video that expresses the solidarity and resilience of our music communities while evoking the flight patterns of starlings. "Emergent Behaviour is inspired by the spontaneous synchronicity evident in the flocking and swarming behaviour of birds, fish and insects. All of these large groups require no central coordination to dance together in beautiful displays. The principles of emergent behaviour enable large numbers of birds and fish to fly and swim together in formation, changing direction almost simultaneously to create amazing spectacles. Fireflies in South America also use emergent behaviour and will start blinking on and off in the night independently of each other and then gradually synch up and blink in rhythmic unison. The combined effect can light the skies so fishermen can use them as a guide to navigating home at night. I find this type of coordination between like-minded groups amazing, beautiful, and inspiring. This concept seemed a perfect fit for a large group of flutists that involves no central coordination but instead relies on the principles of emergent behaviour to coordinate them in synchronicity. In this piece, the flutists endeavour to play synchronously while spatially spread about the performance space. The resultant effect is akin to a flock of starlings flying together." - Jordan Nobles, composer.

Audio mixing and mastering by Jordan Nobles

Filmed throughout the summer of 2021 at Canadian Music Centre BC Region (Vancouver) and other locations.

Special thanks to Mark Haney, Piotr Wieczorek, Redshift Music Society, and the Canadian Music Centre BC Region.

This video was made possible by generous assistance from the BC Arts Council Resilience Fund.

JORDAN NOBLES: KINETICS

4K UHD video, color, stereo sound, 05:31minutes, 2022

Composed by Jordan Nobles

Performed by Nicholas Baddeley, Nicholas Papador, and Martin Shultz, marimbas; from the album "Marimba Collage" https://redshiftrecords.org/releases/tk512/.

Video by Dejan Radovanovic

A Project of the Redshift Music Society

FOREIGN OCEANS《奇幻海洋》

4K UHD video, color, stereo sound, 07:34 minutes, 2021-22

Music composed by Jordan Nobles Jordan Nobles作曲

Performers: Sound of Dragon Ensemble 龍吟滄海樂團

Mark McGregor – flute 長笛 Charlie Lui 呂畇初 – dizi/Chinese flute 笛子 Lan Tung董籃 – erhu 二胡 Nicole Ge Li 李歌– erhu 二胡 Marina Hasselberg – cello 大提琴 Itamar Erez – guitar 吉他 Zhimin Yu 于志敏 – ruan阮 Jonathan Bernard – percussion 打擊樂

Lan Tung 董籃 – producer

Marc L’Esperance – audio engineer

Recorded at the Annex Theatre, Vancouver, 2020

Dejan Radovanovic - Videography & Director

Directed by Dejan Radovanovic
© 2021 Studio UMMAGUMMA

FARSHID SAMANDARI: IF THIS IS A MAN

4K UHD video, color, stereo sound, 13:05 minutes, 2021

Farshid Samandari is an Iranian-Canadian composer, based in Vancouver, Canada (Coast Salish territory: Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil Waututh First Nations). His work for flute and electronics, If this is a man, was commissioned by flutist Suzanne Snizek in 2016. The work is inspired by the words of Primo Levi, specifically an invocation that prefaced Levi's memoirs as an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor. Samandari frames the author's words in three musical movements: first, Levi invokes his safe and well-fed audience (I. You who live safe, 0:00). Then he recounts forms of degradation and abuse visited upon humanity throughout history (II. Consider if... 2:32). Finally, he stresses the importance of remembering these atrocities so they do not occur again (III. Meditate that... 6:46).

Composed by Farshid Samandari

Words by Primo Levi

Performed by Mark Takeshi McGregor

Audio mastering by Piotr Wieczorek

A film by Dejan Radovanovic

Filmed November 2020 at Canadian Music Centre BC Region (Vancouver)

Special thanks to Giovanni Aniello, Paola Borghesi, Don Cesare Nisoli, Walter Quan, Suzanne Snizek, the Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, and the Canadian Music Centre BC Region.

“JORDAN NOBLES: CHIAROSCURO

4K UHD video, color, stereo sound, 30:43 minutes, 2020

An essay on harmonic stasis.”

Composed by Jordan Nobles

Musicians: Mark Takeshi McGregor – flute, alto flute, Geronimo Mendoza – oboe, english horn, Liam Hockley – clarinet, bass clarinet, Katelin Coleman – bassoon, Colin MacDonald – alto and soprano saxophones, Dorothea Hayley – soprano, Martin Fisk – vibraphone, Julia Chien – glockenspiel, Katie Rife – marimba, Janelle Nadeau – harp, Danielle Marcinek – piano, Adrian Verdejo – classical and acoustic guitars, Saina Khaledi – santour, Dailin Hsieh – zheng, Nicole Ge Li – erhu, Parmela Attariwala – violin, Sarah Kwok – viola, Alasdair Money – cello, Mark Haney – double bass

Directed by Dejan Radovanovic
© 2020 Studio UMMAGUMMA

This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters. Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.

[EQUILIBRIUM]

4K UHD video, color, stereo sound, 10:15 minutes, 2017

Music: 'EQUILIBRIUM' from CD 'Surface Tension' - Ethos Collective performs the music of Jordan Nobles

Performers: Ethos Collective - Katie Rife, director, marimba, and songbells; Samantha Fu, flute; Timothy Van Cleave, vibraphone; Chris Morano, piano; Colin MacDonald, saxophone; Adrian Verdejo, electric guitar.

Music composed by Jordan Nobles
TK451 © 2017 Redshift Music

Directed by Dejan Radovanovic
© 2018 Studio UMMAGUMMA

Official Selection 9th Annual New York City Independent Film Festival 2018

Featured in DEEP VIMEO

[SURFACE TENSION]

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DCI Digital Cinema 4K, color, stereo sound, 12:33 minutes, 2018
Directed by Dejan Radovanovic
© 2018 Studio UMMAGUMMA
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Music: 'Surface Tension' from CD 'Surface Tension'
Composer: Jordan Nobles
Performers: Ethos Collective
Katie Rife, percussion (marimba, glockenspiel, song bells, tam tam, bass drum, cymbals); Timothy Van Cleave, percussion (vibraphone, cymbals); Samantha Fu, flute; Kathryn Emiko Hintersteininger, violin; Stefan Hintersteininger, cello; Chris Morano, piano; with guests Marcus Takizawa, viola; Adrian Verdejo, electric guitar; and Colin MacDonald, saxophone.
TK451 © 2017 Redshift Music
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Screenings:

Generative Gallery , MARS Contemporary Art Center Moscow Центр МАРС, May 19 - June 19 2018

The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival New York City, October 1st to October 7 2018

OUR ALIEN VOICE (Dejan Radovanovic & Michel Banabila)

5K 2.35:1 / 5120x2179 video , color, stereo sound, 2018

Directed by Dejan Radovanovic
© 2018 Studio UMMAGUMMA

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Music Composed by Michel Banabila

Track: 'Our Alien Voice" (Trespassing / Séance Centre, 2017)

https://banabila.bandcamp.com/

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Screenings:

MADATAC X CINETECA (Sala Plató), Madrid, Spain February 22 2019

You can watch 360 version of this work on Vimeo and VeeR

FINGERPAINTING

4k Scope (2.39:1) / 4096x1716, color, stereo sound, 03:59 minutes, 2018

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This moving images improvisation is homage to what I consider as one of the most amazing scenes in film history:

Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point Final Scene has been very special and always inspirational to me for almost 40 years.

This project has been planned for some time and would not have been realized if there was no Jordan Nobles and his magical Steinway.
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Music composed by Jordan Nobles
redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/fingerpainting
© 2018 Redshift Music

Directed by Dejan Radovanovic
© 2018 Studio UMMAGUMMA

Ryuichi Sakamoto ASYNC: FULLMOON

HD video, color, stereo sound, 05:41 minutes, 2017
Starring: Hugh Paterson
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Track: ‘Fullmoon’ from 2017 album ‘Async’
Label: Commons – RZCM 86314
Percussion [Glass Singing Bowl] : N.S.S. (2)
Vocals [Spoken Word]: Andri Magnason, Bernardo Bertolucci, Carsten Nicolai, Christine Leboutte, Jose Lavat, Keyko Nimsay, Priscilla Leung, Sergei Mihailov, Shirin Neshat, Tang Kit Ming

The speeches are overlaid translations of a passage from Paul Bowles' novel, The Sheltering Sky (1949):

"Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."

Directed by Dejan Radovanovic
© 2017 Studio UMMAGUMMA

[NOCTURNE]

4K temporal loop video, color, stereo sound, 08:10 minutes, 2017
Music: 'Nocturne' from upcoming CD 'Surface Tension' - Ethos Collective performs the music of Jordan Nobles
Composer: Jordan Nobles
Performers: Ethos Collective (Katie Rife, director and marimba; Samantha Fu, flute; Kathryn Emiko Hintersteininger, violin; Stefan Hintersteininger, cello; Timothy Van Cleave, vibraphone; Chris Morano, piano; Colin MacDonald, saxophone)
TK451 © 2017 Redshift Music

Filmed at Burnaby Mountain, BC

Directed by Dejan Radovanovic
© 2017 Studio UMMAGUMMA

[Yesterday And Today]

4K video, color, stereo sound, 03:02 minutes, 2017

DEEP BREATH

4K video, color, stereo sound, 23:48 minutes, 2016-2019
"Deep Breath" with Mark McGregor from the Album Immersion: Music of Jordan Nobles

Composer: Jordan Nobles

[DISSOLVED]

HD video, color, stereo sound, 02:14 minutes, 2017

"PAHRUMP HILLS"

4K video, color, stereo sound, 03:43 minutes, 2016
Scene setting based on NASA’s super resolution component Mast Camera images acquired on Sept. 17, 2014, during the 751st Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars.
Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

16th International Festival Signes de Nuit , Urbino, Italy, 2018

14th International Festival Signes de Nuit , Paris , France, 2016

[CHRONOSTASIS]

HD video, color, stereo sound, 11:07 minutes, 2016
Composer: Jordan Nobles
Performers: Chris Morano, piano; Timothy Van Cleave, vibraphone; Katie Rife, marimba
From the 2017 Ethos Collective CD "Surface Tension"
redshiftrecords.org

"DEEP WATER"

HD video, color, stereo sound, 17:12 minutes, 2016
Music: Deep Water from from the album Immersion
Composer: Jordan Nobles
Performers: Kelly Nobles and Julian Nobles, waterphones, water vessels, water

"ONE OF THESE MORNINGS"

4K video, color, stereo sound, 06:00 minutes, 2015-2019

screenings:

DISTANT NATURE - Knoll Galerie Wien , 10.7 – 13.7.2020 Vienna, Austria . Curated by Katarína Balúnová

"UP"

HD video, color, stereo sound, 04:10minutes, 2015

"PROFILES OF ISLANDS DRAWN ON THE JOURNEY FROM CEYLON TO BATAWIA"

HD video, black-and-white, stereo sound, 12:15 minutes, 2015

Profiles of islands drawn on the journey from Ceylon to Batavia present a transfixing landscape showered with what appear to be remnants of another time and place. Inspired by Pieter de Bevere 1757 drawing ‘Profielen van eilanden getekend op de reis van Ceylon naar Batavia’, Rijksmuseum, Netherlands, Amsterdam.
Music: ‘Stasis’ from the 2011 CD "UNDERCURRENTS - Contact performs the music of Jordan Nobles”
Composer: Jordan Nobles (jordannobles.com)
Performers: CONTACT (contactcontemporarymusic.ca)

Director: Dejan Radovanovic

"REW"

HD video, black-and-white, stereo sound, 04:30 minutes, 2014

"INTRO"

HD video, color, stereo sound, 00:24 minutes, loop, 2013-15