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Born 1965, Copenhagen. A film director and multimedia artist with a B.A. in Film and Media. Works in many different genres and media - documentary, fiction, animation, interactivity and installation. Has produced films and video art since the close of the 1980s and has participated in a large number of international festivals. She has exhibited video installations at The National Museum of Denmark and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde and has received several film awards and arts grants. Films: "City Souls 1-4" (1990-94), "Mind the Gap" (1994), "Golem-Praha" (1994), "Landscapes" (1997), "The Pillow" (1999), "Himmelstorm - Hildegard von Bingens visioner (2000), "Close" (2002) and "Storvask" / "Big Wash" (2004) and "Invisible" (2004).

Kasssandra Wellendorf is a film- and multimedia artist with a B.A. in Film and Media. She works in many different genres and media - documentary, fiction, animation, interactivity and installation. Wellendorf has produced films and video art since the close of the 1980s and has participated in a large number of international festivals. She has exhibited video installations at The National Museum of Denmark and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde and has received several film awards and arts grants.

Her films are distributed by Danish Film Institute: Invisible (2004), Big Wash (2004), Close (2003), Landscapes (1997) and City Souls 1-4 (1990-94).

She has recently received ZKM' s special prize The International Media Art Award 2004 for her film
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THE ILLEGAL GAZE
An interactive video installation

During her stay at C3 – a place for experiments in interactive and electronic art - Kassandra Wellendorf has developed an interactive videoinstallation The Illegal Gaze. Three ‘walls’ of videos surround the viewer. The videos show people at rush hour travelling by metro. When you break the personal space of the video projected passengers by getting too close to them, they turn your own action towards you and break your personal space. This experience challenges your role as a viewer. You cannot maintain your position as an invisible voyeur. The work reflects upon the role of the audience in an exhibition space. How you react to being part of an interactive installation and how this media experience play with your own protection of personal space as a viewer in an exhibition space.

INVISIBLE - ZKM´s special prize The Media Art Award 2004

Invisible exposes the choreography of waiting. How do people behave when they are waiting for a bus? How are their thoughts and feelings reflected in their movements and facial expressions?
The film focuses on how we are physically close and yet at the same time invisible to one another. Is it the danger of becoming invisible that makes us fiddle with our bags? Do we make others disappear or do we disappear inside ourselves?

Photography and link to homepage - www.dfi.dk/dfi/english/shortfilms/invisible.htm

CLOSE

Close examines a series of situations between bodies that reach out for each other. How close can you get? And can you ever get close enough? The form is experimental and depicts the meeting of bodies in unusual close-ups that bypass the typical pornographic exhibition of naked bodies. The result is a picture ballet that accommodates beauty as well as claustrophobic terror in its presentation of feelings like fear, intimacy and distance.

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