Writing Samples
The following link features a couple of handpicked written materials that I wrote as part of various endeavors.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LIpC34rpcDql8ITHNIgvDRGWZX7H33M4?usp=share_link
Graphic Art & Storytelling
Filmklubben at Christianshavn Beboerhus
This subsection features posters designed for different thematic cycles of movies that I had personally conceptualized and represented via handpicked productions during my time as the organizer of a small film club in Copenhagen. Every month, I would promote a different cycle of films via a dedicated Facebook group of more than 500 members. The cycles’ respective descriptions, for which I had also been responsible, have been included in this portfolio as samples of my writing and storytelling skills.
OD (oh-dee – overdose) marks the beginning of the Filmklub’s fourth season! OD is, at a fundamental level, a cycle about love and addiction seen in contrast to the chemical tumult of the young mind.
Is love a by-product of an individual’s primal need to experience life at its maximum? Or the result of a drug-fuelled phantasmagoria, serving to accentuate the already inescapable electro-chemical parameters of the human brain? If addiction to love is an intrinsic addiction to life, then what happens when one overdoses on both?
The movies we’re about to screen (“Requiem for a Dream”, “Panic in the Needle Park”, “Candy” and “Heaven Knows What”) will present different instances where polar opposites such as life and death become morbidly conjoined, as an instance of one inevitably leads to the other…
Nullpoint is the quintessential element of existence. It is the beginning and the end. It is chaos and order, being and nothingness. It is origin branched out towards inevitable termination, complex life reduced to primal pattern, ever so cold and indecipherable, ever so close and intrinsic. It reverberates throughout every facet of the cosmos, be it the tumble of a grain of sand being swept away by the wind, the multi-coloured sojourn of the human mind, or the eternally graceful dance of distant galaxies.
The films “Coherence”, “The Lobster”, “Synecdoche, New York” and “Melancholia” will see some of the most characteristic elements of both our internal and external existence fall inward towards a seemingly ubiquitous point of origin and expansion, one with everything, null of anything…
“The Sequence of Paradise” is a mini cycle about finding happiness, fulfilment, and self-worth. Whether that is through reflection, travel, interpersonal interaction, or some rather outlandish twists of fate, one can’t deny nor extinguish the spirit’s thirst for meaning and self-actualization.
Does Paradise have to be constrained to the spectrum of the incomprehensible divine, or can it be sundered to fragments attainable by the human mind? Is Paradise a place found outwardly of Being, or is it a beacon lying inwards, past nature’s darkest shrouds?
The two movies we’re about to screen, “Groundhog Day” (1993) and “The Razor’s Edge” (1984) will highlight the human struggle to attain fulfilment, be it through the (re)discovery of the intricate world that lies before, behind, and above the Being, or a blissful regression into the inner workings of the Self.
Si vis pacem, para bellum (Latin for: If you want peace, prepare for war) is a cycle that aims to delve into the greyer areas of justice and morality. Is conflict a spectacle of primordial polarities with clear definitions and predictable outcomes? Or a murky amalgam of means and ends that inadvertently stomp on our fabricated equilibrium between good and evil? Is the permanence of peace ensured by the brutal violation of our humanity and subsequent transcendence to a new moral axiom? Or does peace merely represent a recovery of the humanity we’ve lost while chasing constructs disguised as principles?
The four movies we’re about to screen (“Sicario”, “Bridge of Spies”, “Zero Dark Thirty”, and “Hell or High Water”) shall present different takes on modern conflict and what it takes to achieve a lasting resolution by any means necessary.
Dead Pixels is a cycle about humans, society, and technology. From social media platforms that facilitate an unprecedented ease in exchanging ideas with individuals from all corners of the world, to increasingly invasive methods of surveillance and social engineering, Dead Pixels aims to explore the morally grey area trailing behind the glamour of our modern paradigm. Action follows reason, and all actions have consequences.
Searching (2018), The Social Network (2010), Snowden (2016) and the Black Mirror (2011 – 2019) episode “Hated in the Nation” will present reason from all echelons of the human society, where technology acts as a catalyst for action, and consequences vary from being of an insightful, slightly foreboding nature, to becoming a gateway into the grimmest realms of causality. Mankind has taken the first digital picture of itself, yet the screen displaying it has given way to its first dead pixels…
Worldbuilding Auxiliaries (Personal Projects)
This subsection features artistic compositions designed to act as worldbuilding auxiliaries for a couple of personal projects of mine. The scope and style of these compositions may vary.
A poster designed as a personal interpretation of certain conventions of minimalism characteristic of mainstream sci-fi poster design. The glitched head, which stands out from the discolored body, represents free will and creativity, two concepts that within a fictional (or not quite) context of oppression through technology, become synonymous with being alive.
Asynchronous
A poster designed to employ certain visual particularities representative of mainstream sci-fi poster design. The glitch effect had been used as a motif for the rather popular concept of the digitized consciousness, which is used extensively in modern science fiction works.
Rising Sun
A rather experimental poster designed to represent a fictional propaganda poster within the context of a futuristic, dystopian Japan.
