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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
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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 RainsfordWith
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
Performance installation
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
For Shida Shahabi’s album Homes released on 130701.ABISME
This Tendora sinensis was filmed in Ishinomaki, Japan. It's Japanese name is Okamakiri mushi, Kamakiri is the cutting action a scythe makes. It gets its English name, Praying mantis, from the way it stands front legs folded as if in prayer for hours at ends.
It is a sit-and-wait predator. When it spies its victim, a grasshopper or a cricket, it lashes out its front legs and impales the prey on sharp spines.
Mantids are a type of insects in which sex is dangerous, meaning the female might eat the male before sex. In about ten percent of the cases, the female mantid attacks the courting male as he approaches her, bites his head off and then devours his body.
DoP Karolina Pajak
PRETTY IN PLUMS
PETULA
This dragonfly was filmed on Janunary 13th 2017 in Pondicherry India, where they were emerging from a water tank in hundreds every night.
It lived most of its life as a nymph under water. Years could have gone by before it stuck its head out of the water and went through the metamorphisis that transforms a water dragon to it's aerial form. It's anal gills have until now functioned for underwater breathing, jet propulsion and hydraulic-powered hunting.
As it expands the body starts to breathe air, its 30,000 lensed eyes begin to develop an opaque quality, pigment begins to saturate the body and eyes, they slowly become glossy, strong and transparent. As it takes off, in milliseconds of flickering flight, to complete the last part of its life cycle where it reproduces and hatches.
Production through collaboration with Umeed Mistry and Tasneem Khan, Earth Colab, Artlab Gnesta and the Swedish Institiute through Swamp Storytelling
DAWNING AND WIND
This dragonfly was filmed in Ishinomaki Japan, a few years and months after a tsunami struck and washed away most of the land several kilometers inland.
Dragonflies are known for being first to disappear if there is a polution in the water and the first to come back after disasters.
DoP Karolina Pajak
Some press:
On 4:3 boilerroom
HYMN
BIRTH CANAL
Koki Nakano 2019APPLIED 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!
Sachiko and Migaku Kumagai lived a simple life together. Their house was situated on a hill overlooking the sea in northeastern Japan. Migaku had just retired, and they were looking forward to growing old together when the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami shook Japan in 2011. Migaku disappeared in the wave, and as part of her grieving process, Sachiko began writing letters to her husband.
Sachiko Kumagai's letters were originally published in Japanese by Hitoshi Tsurizaki as three books containing around 300 poems from 2014 to 2018. This book is a selection of the poems translated into English, interpreted, and chosen by Jennifer Rainsford with the permission of Sachiko Kumagai's son.
The publication is made in collaboration with Jennifer Rainsford. Translation and printing are supported by Längmanska Kulturfonden, Sweden Japan Foundation, and Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation.
58 pages. Printed in 200 copies by Bulls Graphic, Halmstad 2022.
Price: 100 SEK + postage 52 SEK. Order by emailing diskretforlag@gmail.com. Payment via Swish (1235101522) or Paypal (diskretforlag@gmail.com).
All proceeds from the sales go to the Hatachi Fund, a foundation that helps children in the Rizuentaktata area who have lost parents in the tsunami.
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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 videoOn 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 PodNEW 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
View from inside a drop of water in a microscope.
Best watched with VR headset, but you can also scroll in the video
360 degree video in collaboration with Shreyasi Khan
Project springing from Swamp Storytelling, in collaboration with Earth Colab and Artlab Gnesta.
Watch whole channel on Youtube
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 seriesCATACLYSMIC 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
Mvua Farasi (Rain Horse) takes place on a Kenyan race course in the outskirts of Nairobi.HD video, 17,45'
Made in the collective Crystal Beacon, Jennifer Rainsford, Lena Bergendahl and Rut Karin Zettergren
BEHIND OTHER SCENES
The film observes life behind the scenes of a Kung fu tv-drama, set in the forests outside of Beijing. DOP: Iga Mikler
Thanks to Yu Yan Kai
With support from Konstnärsnämnden
THE DANCERS OF THE SEVEN VEILS PERFORMS LEVITATION
Installation and performing sculptures. 
Story
OUR GLOBAL BEHAVIOUR IS PSYCHOPATHIC
Our Global Behaviour Is Psychopathic, one – channel screening version by Virlani Rupini & Jennifer Rainsford, 2010. Video 14 min HD.
O.G.B.I.P II [Our Global Behaviour Is Psychopathic II] two – channel video installation by Virlani Rupini & Jennifer Rainsford, 2012. Video 14 min HD.
The film takes place at sea, following an unpleasant sailing trip. The two directors, who also play two of the characters, experiment with how models of behaviours can be used within the persona, between individuals and nations. They compare personal processes to programmes and ideologies that on a macro-level are used between nations, like subordination and self-annihilation, and pursues the four characters on the sailing boat towards an utopian vision.
CREDITS
Program C: Aurelia Le Huche
Program B: Virlani Rupini
Program A: Jennifer Rainsford
Directing & Screenplay: Virlani Rupini, Jennifer Rainsford
Director of Photography: Iga Mikler
First Assistant Camera: Marcus Harrling, Jonas Isfält
Assistant director: Jesper Nordahl
Sound mixer: Jonas Isfält, Calle Holck
Dubbing editor: Oscar Alvarez
Production assistant: Jonas Isfält, Calle Holck
Production assistant, boat: Johanna Ahlgren
Production assistant, catering: Sara Oförsagd Hedberg
Wardrobe & Make-up: Farvash Razavi
With kind support by The Wanås Foundation, Royal Institute of Arts and Swedish Film Institute.
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BERLINALE // FORUM EXPANDED Exhibition 9.2.2012 – 19.2.2012, Opening hours: daily 11am – 20pm. Opening: 8.2.2012, 6 -9 pm.
Organized by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art as part of the Berlinale.
Forum Expanded 2012 will once again be exploring new forms of artistic, cinematic and political expression. 37 works by artists, filmmakers, theorists and musicians from 20 different countries comprise the compact and focused programme, taking in exhibitions, film programmes, discussions and performances that place an emphasis on aesthetic explorations of the global and individual dimensions of current crises. The programme explores the extent to which the radical and avant-garde ideas of the past are still relevant today and seeks to redefine the role of contemporary cinema.
This year’s exhibition in Kunstsaele Berlin is entitled “Critique and Clinic”. Criticism of institutions nd clinical psychiatry in particular played a central role in the political discourse of the 1960s and 1970s, a movement which regarded psychological pathologies as a product of social conditions and the repressive structures of society. Luke Fowler’s film ALL DIVIDED SELVES, which explores the work of psychiatrist and guru of the anti-psychiatry movement RD Laing, forms the starting point for the “Critique and Clinic” exhibition. The works it comprises take an in-depth look at the current psychological dimensions of socio-political structures. By examining the relationship between mental states and global structures, the exhibition offers a diagnostic panorama of the “psychospheres” of a form of capitalism which has made life, subjectivity and the psyche into a central resource. Much like the rest of this year’s Forum Expanded programme, the exhibition also raises the question of art’s scope for taking action in both visual and narrative terms.
Artists: Heike Baranowsky (Germany), Duncan Campbell (Ireland), Luke Fowler (GB), Iram Ghufran (India), Virlani Rupini und Jennifer Rainsford (Sweden), Ken Jacobs (USA), Steffen Köhn und Paola Calvo (Germany), Eline McGeorge (Norway), The Otolith Group (GB), Florian Wüst (Germany)
Program
Barometer (i) von Heike Baranowski (Deutschland) Arbeit von Duncan Campbell (Irland) All Divided Selves von Luke Fowler (Großbritannien) There Is Something In The Air von Iram Ghufran (Indien) O.G.B.I.P [ Our Global Behaviour is Psychopathic II ] von Virlani Rupini und Jennifer Rainsford (Schweden) Seeking The Monkey King von Ken Jacobs (USA) A Tale Of Two Islands von Steffen Köhn und Paola Calvo(Deutschland) A World Of Our Own von Eline McGeorge (Großbritannien) Aanathema von The Otolith Group (Großbritannien/ Frankreich) Dienst An Der Notwendigkeit (Service To Necessity) von Florian Wüst (Deutschland)
https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/berlinale-forum/news/single/article/3180/170.html’
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