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ALL OF OUR HEARTBEATS ARE CONNECTED THROUGH EXPLODING STARS

With the 2011 Tsunami as a backdrop, ALL OF OUR HEARTBEATS ARE CONNECTED THROUGH EXPLODING STARS is a staggering odyssey told as an essay on grief, and on how humans and nature rebuild after trauma. It moves from the shores of Japan where Sachiko, Yasu and Satoko try to find ways to accept their loss; via rarely seen places thousands of meters below the sea level where new life-forms thrive; to one of the Hawaiian islands where a group of volunteers gather to clean a beach from Japanese tsunami debris floating in from the Ocean.


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DirectorJennifer Rainsford
Producer Michael Krotkiewski, Mirjam Gelhor, David Herdies
Director of Photograph Karolina Pajak, Iga Mikler, Wojtek Sulezycki,
Editor Camille Cotte, Amalie Westerlin Tjellesen
Composer Teho Teardo
Sound Designer Ted Krotkiewski
Re-recording Mixer Robert Hefter
Colorist Michael Cavanagh
VFX Nils Fridén
Genre Documentary
In co-production with Film in Skåne, WHAP
In association with Chicken and Egg Pictures, Point Du Jour – Les Films Du Balibari
With Support From The Swedish Film Institute, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Film Stockholm, Kulturbryggan, Helge Ax:son Johson Foundation, Sweden Japan Foundation, The Scandinavia – Japan Sasakawa foundation, Women Make Movies Production Assistance Program
Developed with the support of
The Creative Europe Programme – Media of The European Union

Format
77 min – HD, Color

LIFE IN A DROP OF WATER
360 VIDEOS VR

LAKE ON FIRE

Sjö i brand

Lake on fire is a short sci film telling the story from a distant future of how two former lovers are reunited in a virtual forest created by an artificial intelligence. Flowers are talking, the forest is shifting colors while fighting virtual wars and the former couple realise they can't change the past.

A subtle science fiction short film about regret and an A.I. only interested in humans for giving love advice.
Short film 14.30 min
Language Swedish, English, Kannada

Screening at Göteborg film festival competition startsladden 2020

A film by Jennifer Rainsford
With
Dayasindhu Sakrepatna and Jennifer Rainsford

Original music
Shida Shahabi

Sound design
Robert Hefter

Mixstudio
Basis Berlin Postproduktion

Grading and effects
Nils Fridén Velourfilm

Script, direction, camera, editing and production
Jennifer Rainsford

Financial support by the Swedish Film Institute, film commissioner Ami Ekström

Production Assistants
Ashok Vish, Vinay Ghodgeri, Sami Johnson

Thanks to
Konstnärsnämnden IASPIS,
1Shantiroad Bangalore: Suresh Jayaram, Sandeep TK, Ashok Vish, Ramalingam V.K,
Magnus Andersson Business Sweden Bangalore,
Swamp Storytelling Art Lab Gnesta, Earth Colab, Swedish institute
Couroupita Guianensis, Odonata, Cubbon Park,
Gavin Maycroft

Shot in November 2018

Poster design
Shruti Chamaria

WHEN I DIE THE WORLD ENDS

A couple are on the way to their boat. There is a silence between them. While out at sea they hear a heavy sound. Perhaps an earthquake. Under an incredibly beautiful sky the painful silence ruptures.

- Clarice Goulart GIFF catalogue


CAST
Anna-Helen Cristina Flutur
Dvan Aris Servetalis

CREW
Director & Script Jennifer Rainsford
Cinematographer Karolina Pajak
Editor Antonella Sarubbi

Producer Jennifer Rainsford
Associate producer Stefanos Tsivopoulos

VFX and Grade Nils Friden / Velourfilm
Ljuddesign och Mix Robert Hefter / Studio 24

First assitant director Elena Dimitrakopoulou
First assistant cinematographer Sofia Larsson

Line producer Greece Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Electrician Gregory Moschos
First assistant electrician Christos Moschos
Grip Kostas Meridas
Sound Yorgos Potagas
First assistant sound Yorgos Bibikos

Makeup Kyriaki Melidou
Costume Vassilia Rozana
Costume wants to thank
Vassiliki Panayotopoulos
Panayotis Bitzios
Antonis Polychroniou
Alexa Hanjis
Tartaras Optical Shop

Best boy Dionisis Kavalleriatos

Boat service Ikarian Cruises
Skipper Alexandros Mavronditis
Van service Angeliki Anagnostopoulou

Financial support by the Swedish Film Institute, film commissioner Andreas Fock
Controller Lina Norberg Johansson

Exekutiv Producent Jennifer Rainsford
Equipment Ljud och Bildmedia, Stockholm, ARCTOS, Athens

Tack!
Daniel Thisell, Georg Giorgi Das Talent Agency, Michael Krotkiewski, Costanza Julia Bani, Vicky Miha, Anna-Maria Kantarius, Fabian Altenried, Karin Bulow-Orrje, Rut Karin Zettergren, Ann Oren, Iara Rodriguez Vilardebó, Gabrielle Brady, Gianni Collot, Paul Fägerskiöld, Yashar Alishenas, Kristina Sonmark, Farvash Razavi, BNF Paris, Circolo Scandinavico, Nisi Masa, Kerstin Andersson, Ove Andersson, Anna Andersson, Emily Rainsford

FESTIVALS
SWEDISH PREMIERE AT GIFF 2018
GREEK PREMIERE IN COMPETITION AT: DRAMA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018
ATHENS AVANTGARDE FILM FESTIVAL 2018
IN COMPETITION AT: DESERT EDGE FLM FESTIVAL 2018

FIDDLER CRABS

360 video

Male fiddler crabs wave their big left claw to defend their territory. As the tide comes in from the Ocean they cover their holes with sand. A small air pocket underneath the ground, covers their need for air. Until the Ocean withdraws from the beach, they come out of their holes, shifting sand through their mouths.

360 degree video
Project springing from Swamp Storytelling, in collaboration with Earth Colab and Artlab Gnesta.
Thanks to Umeed Mistry and Tasneem Khan.

Supported by the Swedish Insitiute

TRIALS IN A SYSTEM OF CONNECTIONS

In the performance a system of ropes and blocks holds one to four persons hanging above ground. They are attached to each other in six points: one on each side of the hips and by their hands and feet.

Held by each other's weight they move in a system of equilibrium, floating above ground, where one person's movement directly affects the other's.

Made with the support of Cirkus Cirkör and rigger Anders Freudendahl. Performed at the Royal Academy of fine arts and Turteatern.

HEART OF AN ASTRONAUT

Brigitte Godard dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Today she is a doctor and monitors the astronauts’ bodily functions while they are in space. Against fascinating images from life onboard the International Space Station, philosophical and biological questions are posed in relation to space, humanity, and the heart.

- Tobias Åkesson

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FIRE ON LAKE

The book tells a multiscale narrative departing from the fires on Bellandur lake in Bangalore (IN) between the
years 2015-19.

The book relates how plants grow around
the lake to Bangalore being India’s outsourcing and IT hub,
the breaking of phosphor in the Sahara desert, to boolean
algebra, and the Nobel prize in economics.

It includes a collection of stories, poems, maps, illustrations and macro-photographs.

Content and research: Jennifer Rainsford
Design, production and distribution: Shruti Chamaria
Production specifications: digital print, 17 x 23.5 cm, 80 pages,
stitched binding, screen printed book jacket (cover)
Language: English, Kannada
Publication launch: 2020
Limited edition: 45 copies
The book is a self-initiated publication, financially supported
by Konstnärsnämnden IASPIS (SE) and Längmanska
kulturfonden (SE)

BIRDS IN SPACE

Earth’s ecosystems have collapsed and people have begun colonizing space. On Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, a man and his son await the arrival of the father’s sister. In an existential drama, the memory of Earth fades, but unexpected fragments of its heritage live on.

Direction and Script
Jennifer Rainsford and Lena Bergendahl
Short film 29 min

With
Amir Hussein Jafari
Mohammad Aref Jafari
Nasrin Pakkho
Yuriy Golubyatnikov
Anni Wang
May Le

Producer Anna-Maria Kantarius

Garagefilm
Svensk filmdatabas

Executive producer Mimmi Spång & Rebecka Lafrenz
Assistant producer Frida Mårtensson
Production coordinator Garagefilm Rachel Bodros Wolgers, Signe Höeg

DOP Lena Bergendahl & Jennifer Rainsford
Assistant Camera Martin Gärdemalm, Adam Lunneborg, Jonas Ernhill
Sound Linda Iro Näsström, Jess Wolfsberg
Project coordinator Emma Björnwall, Sarah Olsson
Translator Faryana Asghari
Coordinator, assistant and translator Kimiya Faghih
Production assistants Sarah Olsson, Amanda Svedberg, Agnes Fred
Runner Sadik Salem
Editor Andreas Nilsson
Assistant editor klipp Lena Bergendahl och Jennifer Rainsford
Postproduction bild Lillasyster
Postproducer Mattias Valenca
Grade/ Online Nanna Dalunde
VFX/ Comp Mikael Hall
Editor assistantSara Thisner
Sound design and mix Jess Wolfsberg
Translation Vietnamese Tan Le
Soundstudio Ljudbang
Graphic form La Boca
Moving Sweden Filmkonsulent Helen Ahlsson
Controller Lina Norberg Johansson
Administration Boel Jonsson
Project SVT Peter Zell
Film Stockholm/ Filmbasen
Chef Joakim Blendulf
Konsulent Rosario Fernandez Tengdahl
Controller Hend Aroal
Film i Västerbotten Filmkonsulent Lill Casslind
Music by: Teho Teardo, Moljebka Pvlse/Mathias Josefson, Meshuggah

Location Hällestads svamp, Mathias Persson, Västerbacken Hotell & Konferens, Åsa Lindgren
SCA Obbola, Mikael Holmlund Umeå Flygklubb, Mats Johansson

Thank you
Iga Mikler, Marcus Lindh SSC, Max Ockborn, Samaneh Reyhani
Elias Ahmadi, Eva Bergendahl, Ove Andersson, Kerstin Andersson, Wolf Geppert, Lars-Erik Edlund, Mårten Sjöström , Ricklundgården i Saxnäs, Svenska Kyrkan Obbola , Kulturbryggan

MUSIC VIDEOS

BIRTH CANAL 

APPLIED THEORIES OF EXPANDING MINDS

Film and installation. 

In a transforming Kenya, a group of people has created a new tribe. Applied Theories of Expanding Minds shows some of them engaged in ritual actions with the purpose to change their community.



HDV, colour, sound
version 1. Multi channel video installation, eight projections
version 2. Short film 29 minutes

By Jennifer Rainsford, Lena Bergendahl and Rut Karin Zettergren

IMAGINING THE INSIDE OF THE EARTH 

Sculpture showing imagined inside of the Earth
Bronze
2x4 cm

Descending 3000 km under our feet, the Earth’s mantle is a semi-solid fluid under a thin outer crust. The highly viscous layers vary with temperature, pressure and depth, the pocket of liquid lava that surfaces at volcanoes.

Imagined inside of the Earth is a sculpture made after studying theories, models and data of how the inside of the Earth might look like. The piece is sculpted and modelled from my imagination of the possible shape of what the parts of the Earth that is closest to the volcanic hotspots.

The models are modelled virtually, printed in 3d and then remodelled in the computer, in a process going back and forth between digital and real.

FROM THE HILL OVERLOOKING THE SEA, A LOVE LETTER TO YOU!

A.D.

Photo series
Shells picked on shores of disasters.

MIRACULOUS ENDINGS

"In the immense history of Earth, on many continents, over billion of years, through extintions caused by asteroids, sea level change, and volcanic eruption, there seem to be rules about what happens to living things during cataclysms.”

Taking it’s departure in a text by paleontologist Neil Shubin about large scale extintions in nature, the series of photos are from places in the world after large scale economic, geographic or geological changes have taken place. Though, instead of looking at the devastation and change in landscape it looks only at what survived or that started to live just after.

The photographs are from the Tohoku coast three years after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The end of the world, on Big Island, Hawaii, the part of the island where the Kiaulea volcano has erupted and created a lava field where only goats live. And the area where I grew up in Haninge, where a highway passes through the rural area that once was agricultural landscape, now part of trade routes for traffic in the Baltic sea.

When presented the photos are put over a light source, either on wall or on stands making it part sculpture, part photograph.

Installation view

GHOST NETS 

Still images from video

On a remote beach in Kauai, one of the Hawaiian islands where Jurassic Park was filmed, a group of volunteers from the Surfrider Foundation Kauai is clearing ghost nets from sharp cliffs. Every year, tons of marine debris land on the beaches of any of the seven Hawaiian islands located just south of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an expanse of pelagic waste, drifting plastic fragments, chemical sludge, and other debris captured by the currents in the northern subtropical gyre of the Pacific Ocean, 135°-155° W and 35°-42° N.

Ghost nets are a collection of fishing nets, mooring lines, and nylon ropes that have been lost overboard from ships in the Pacific Ocean and float in the sea in long tangles. In water, they can entangle fish, birds, and other organisms, starving or suffocating them to death. Older nets are biodegradable, but nylon and other synthetic materials can drift in the ocean for several years, causing significant harm.

Beach cleaners volunteer to clear marine debris so that it doesn't go back into the ocean. Every time a net lands on a beach, they go there to collectively remove it to prevent it from going back into the sea. They cut up the several-ton heavy ghost nets with serrated kitchen knives and drag them to their four-wheel-drive pickups to transport them through the inaccessible terrain to a landfill. Sometimes, the nets are recycled by multinational companies that create clothing from the plastic. 

Video HD
3min loop
Foto: Iga Mikler, FSF

 Shown as part og Jens Evaldssons public art work Askim Escape Pod

NEW BORN LAND

 

Sculptures of volcanic land. Sculpted from data from USGC GIS University of Hawaii.

LOOKING THROUGH WATER

Workshop and projection of laser through polluted water. Done in collaboration with the Janastu farm in Karnataka, Sadhana village school.



"Re-cognition. Every living being posses existential biological knowledge, the knowledge of nature, the ability to sustain life. Every organism is born with it.

The human organism differs from other organisms insofar as it has codified it's complex language system into text.
re-cognition.org and sadhanavillageschool.org"

https://janastu.org/

EPOCSORCIM

TALKING FLOWERS

Live-cinema performance at 1shantiroad in Bangalore

The work departures from the fires on the lake of Bellandur and explores it through a multi-scale perspective.

The live cinema event tells the story about the past, present and future of the lake and makes connections between the ingredients and story of soap; how the world is changing one programmer at a time; the bug that lives where the fire used to roar and the origin of the Nobel prize in Economy.

Photo documentation by Sandeep TK 1shantiroad

Photos from macro series

CATACLYSMIC CHANGE

Originating from a scene in a documentary I am filming; Debris, that is about how tsunami damaged photos are restored and brought back to their owners. I imitate the process of the destruction of a photograph from saltwater from a tsunami- investigating the number of days it takes for the photo to resolve in water, how it comes off, the mechanical scratches from the dirt and the other photos. In the work, I am interested in how one can move an action of nature to another context. Imitating the process from a disaster. The erased images, liquid that is left of the surface coming off tells a story of when nature and civilzation has collided, though leaving the human memories and stories out. Retelling just the process of the collision.



Water from the washed away colors and salt.


Paper tinted with same ink.

MVUA FARASI

BEHIND OTHER SCENES

THE DANCERS OF THE SEVEN VEILS PERFORMS LEVITATION

OUR GLOBAL BEHAVIOUR IS PSYCHOPATHIC

ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS BARCH YEAR ONE TWO AND THREE

THE BALTIC SEA, HOUSES FOR WATER

The Baltic Sea is the youngest sea on the planet, almost enclosed, experiencing near-arctic conditions and is one of the world’s largest brackish waters.

In Sweden, households and certain industries in 422 urban areas generate 12.6 million p.e. of waste water every day, which is an amount equivalent to around / 2.52 million kubic meters of water, -25 million bathtubs . Urban waste water is treated in 432 plants across the country before it is discharged.

In a future Baltic, the need to clean water leading from land to to the Baltic will increase. It is suggested to be done with many more, small scale local water cleaning plants with multi functions. So that, by even small or big body of water, in
homes, swimming pools and stremans there is a small plant micro extracting metals, plastic and chemicals from the water. Acting like filter feeders on land the buildings can be public water cleaning plants.




The hybrid building combines the functions of a data storage center, water treatment plant, an under ground bathhouse and a community center with a common cafe surrounding a skateable floor.

It is divided into three floors with a surrounding water tank.

The ground floor hosts the public community centre and skate park. The curved floor is some times also used in the water cleaning process.

The first floor under ground is where the water can be used by the public for bathing. An indoor lake, chlorine-free, with a sand floor as part of the cleaning process.

Along the walls and in the water room, water flows, trickles, rains, steams, or streams,depending on the rate of water purification. Sometimes, ephermal water walls are created from the water, defining temporary spatial areas within the large water room.

The under ground communal data storage heats the water that is being purified and is part of the a loop-process of heating and cooling.

THE STAR FOLD

The star fold is a way to cut a flat surface so that it becomes flexible and foldable. It is a scale free system for making facades, roofs and three dimensional surfaces. The ability to fold depends on the material, and dimensions of the pattern in relation to the strength of the material.

Variations of the star fold.

Slide show: ways to use the different objects

TRIALS IN GENERATING BUILDING IN RHINO/GRASSHOPPER/ENSCAPE

COMMUNITY HOUSE AND PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL

ROOM DIAGRAM AND MATRIXES

WATER CLEANING
SWEET WATER SEA SPONGE STRUCTURE 

EXPERIMENTAL HOUSING 

UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE 

UNDERGROUND GREENHOUSE HOME

FOLDABLE HOUSE
VORONOI STRUCTURES AS FOUNDATION FOR FLOORPLAN

While learning grasshopper through tutorials, I got interested in the origin of the Voronoi patterns as they are often used for their ornamental qualities in parametric designs. I recognised them from spatial
division in data science and geography and thought it would be interesting to use them as a grid-system, instead of using the quadrant-grid-net to potentially optimise the spatial use and break the standard

Examples of generated floor plans


The project explored;
-How to generate floor plans and automate room distribution, non quadrant based.

-If there is a way to optimise space utilisation and movement through data based measures.

-Use the voronoi diagram as a basis for load-bearing structure throughout the building. If used might minimise material use and armature using customised load calculations instead of standard grid.

-Placing points strategically within the floor plan to optimise the spatial organisation in relation to the placement of a 3d-printer.

I didn’t use the method for larger scale spatial divisions but am interested in exploring how to:

-Partition large spaces into functional zones based on specific criteria such as usage, privacy needs, or spatial relationships. -To allow flexible and adaptable layouts that cater to diverse programmatic requirements.

-Base plan on site-specific conditions: topography, space to other buildings and distance to water cleaning facilities.

-Analyze site data and incorporate Voronoi-based design strategies, to create site-responsive design.

THE GREAT ELECTRIFICATION

Mapping and scenario for future regional plan Nynäshamn municipality


Nynäshamn, a harbor city located 10 km south of Stockholm, contains the region’s largest harbor, Norvik, serving as a shipping node for goods and passengers transported from container ships by train to a region with approximately 1 million inhabitants. The key stakeholders in the area include Nynäshamn’s municipality, Stockholms hamn, local inhabitants, and small businesses.

We examined the area from an energy perspective, exploring its potential to become the charging hub of the Baltic region if the ”great electrification” successfully transforms the entire transport sector by 2040.

Based on this analysis, we envisioned a future scenario where electrification initially failed but eventually succeeded over a span of 125 years. In this future, an energy crisis forced society to adopt a local and small-scale approach. Using this scenario and timeline, we conceptualized a new suburb that evolved into a commuter town. A new high-speed train from Stockholm transformed it into a commuter town similar to Yokohama’s relationship to Tokyo

STRUCTURE PLAN 

SPORTS PARK AND WETLAND

PROMPTED DESIGN
COLLABORATION

RHINO/GRASSHOPPER GEOMETRIES

SPACE STATIONS

Rhino Oblique