Rehearsed Reading:
Maud Sulter ‘Service to Empire’

Best known as an artist and poet, Sulter wrote Service to Empire, published with her imprint A19 in 2002. In this play she reimagines the relationship between the parents of Jerry Rawlings: his father was a Scot, his mother Ghanaian. Exploring long-lasting colonial legacies across two continents, Sulter considered her play as providing ‘an incisive observation of the explosive reverberations’ of their affair and its impact on Ghana’s former President (in office 1979-2002). Since the play was written 20 years ago, it has never been performed. 


Director: Adura Onashile
Abridged: Adura Onashile
Cinematographer: Basharat Khan
Editor: Basharat Khan
Sound Engineer: Scott Walker
Sound Design/Music: Claudia Vasiliu
Costume Design: Sam Wood/ Palimpsest
Co-curated: Mother Tongue


SCREENINGS AND FESTIVALS

2022; National Galleries Scotland (SCO)

S—t doesn't add up

A park in which Scotland's national stadium once stood serves as the physical and mental space for a chamber play taking place in the spring of 2020. The emptiness of this clearly defined space melts with pop culture, social issues, humor, and bare numbers. Happy dogs, sweaty athletes, and lurking beer drinkers perform in this human-made recreational architecture while the narrator sings "Mathematics" by Mos Def. Borrowing from the tradition of the video diary, "S—t doesn't add up" links the mundane with a (supposed) search for clarity.


Director: Christof Nüssli
Music/Sound design: Claudia Vasiliu
Voice over: Fionn Duffy, Aaron Goddard
Color grading: Jürgen Kupka (Unsere Farben)


SCREENINGS AND FESTIVALS

2023; London Short Film Festival (CH)
2023; Solothurner Filmtage (CH)
2022; Videoex, Zurich (CH), National Competition (Honorable mention)
2021; Kurzfilmtage Shortfilm Festival Winterthur (CH)
2021; Geneva International Film
Festival, Geneva (CH)

Visibility

A stream of consciousness takes us from a society that is afraid of teenagers and birds to drone pilots wearing bomber jackets to the question of whether smoke can make change visible. Should we hold on tight or let ourselves be blown by the wind?


Director: Christof Nüssli
Camera: Florian Dombois, Christof Nüssli, Christoph Oeschger
Editing: Christof Nüssli
Sound design/Music: Claudia Vasiliu


SCREENINGS AND FESTIVALS

2022; Tschüüss Festival; Centre Culturel Suisse; Paris (F)
2022; New Contemporaries; South London Gallery; London (UK)
2021; New Contemporaries; Firstsite; Colchester (UK)

Easy Animal Studio & Netflix

This is a cut down of the 30 minutes of animation produced over 6 months. Check out the Case Study here: easyanimalstudio.com/inclusion-diversity-at-netflix


Creative Direction: Easy Animal
Producer: Ollie Briscall-Harvey
Illustration: Easy Animal, Lèa Zhang, Reid Hausner, Ivan Miguel,
Kathryn Leviton
Animation: Easy Animal, Reid Hausner, Ivan Miguel
Music & Sound Design: Ana Roman & Claudia Vasiliu
Voiceover: Anne-Marie Piazza, Kareem Taylor, Diana Bermudez, Kristain Jacobs, Tuyen Do

TedEd -
The Twilight Zone

SURVIVING THE TWILIGHT ZONE is a short animation piece created by Cris Wiegandt and Bárbara Fonseca for TED Ed

Educator: Kenneth Kostel,
Philip Renaud
Director: Cris Wiegandt
Narrator:  Addison Anderson
Storyboard: Artist Cris Wiegandt, Bárbara Fonseca
3D Modeler: Hugo Morais
Animator: Cris Wiegandt
Compositor: Cris Wiegandt
Art Director: Bárbara Fonseca
Sound Designer: Claudia Vasiliu
Director of Production: Gerta Xhelo
Editorial Director: Alex Rosenthal
Producer: Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Associate Editorial Producer:
Cella Wright
Production Coordinator: Abdallah Ewis
Script Editor: Alex Gendler
Fact-Checker: Jennifer Nam