Terraforming imagines a world where a crystal planet has been discovered in the galaxy. It follows a young cartographer’s journey to the planet. Paying homage to 1960’s sci-fi classics with bold projections of modernism in space.
The first ever object to be designed by man 1.7 million years ago was a flint hand axe. The project juxtaposes the flint hand axe with Swarovski’s latest crystal technology; Xero chaton, the smallest precision cut crystals in the world measuring 0.6mm in diameter, smaller than a grain of sand.
CREDITS
Director / Editor: Juriaan Booij
Concept & Design: Studio Swine
Client: Swarovski
Featuring: Will Lord & Christian Von Pfefer
Director of Photography: Edgar Dubrovskiy
Music: Gavin Singleton
Visual Effect Artist: Yasuyuki Otsuki
Grading: Simon Astbury at Unit Media London
High-Speed Camera: Bernard Esterhuysen
1st Assistant Camera: Tom Cosway
Gaffer: Antti Janhnen
Spark: Harry Gay
Special Thanks:
Complete Fabrication, Design Miami/Basel, Take 2 Film Services, Graham Godfrey, Ben Porter, Rob Gavigan, Bob de Graaf, Edward & Rory McHenry, Robert Rivers & Tobias Clifford-Flower.
The film Utilizes a photo from ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, G. Neukum
2015
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The project began with the passion of craftsmen of Takaoka Traditional Industry Youth Association to bring excitement to their hometown, Takaoka. The short film illustrates dignity and anxiety of craftsmanship in local areas in Japan. It aims to spread the reality of Japanese craftsmen to the rest of the world and to let people know about Takaoka, the city of Japanese traditional arts and crafts. The story is about a couple, a sissy husband Takashi and a devoted wife, Suzu.

Official Website
suzu-takaoka.com/en/

Official Facebook Page
facebook.com/short.story.suzu
facebook.com/suzu.monochrome

Director : Seiichi Hishikawa
Starring : Maki Murakami , Kazuma Narimoto
Music Director : Shinya Kiyokawa
Director of Photography : Yutaka Obara
Producer : Takashi Ueno

Produced by Takaoka Traditional Industry Youth Association , DRAWING AND MANUAL

“My Brother” is a personal tribute to the silent contributions of migrant workers globally. I grew up in the island city-state of Singapore, where encounters with migrants of countries as diverse as Bangladesh, Myanmar, China and the Philippines are part of everyday living. Many of them take on jobs that are considered by the larger public to be menial in nature. Sometimes, the differences in our cultures and socioeconomic statuses cause social friction. When we allow this to be left unchecked, it can evolve into darker displays of xenophobic behavior.
But the inability to see past differences is not just a local issue; it is an increasingly global one. From where I am now in the United States, I am beginning to see how irresponsible political rhetoric, among other factors, influences previously big-hearted populations, populations which embraced – indeed championed – diversity.
My response to this wave of sentiments is inspired by a quote I came across recently, attributed to the French composer Claude Debussy: music is the silence between the notes. The project aims to recognize the silent migrant workers’ contributions to our communities and celebrate their music between our notes.
“My Brother” is thus a metaphor for the thousands of underappreciated migrant workers we come across during our daily commute. I believe that bridges are built on bricks of commonalities and so the focus of this project is on the spaces of our shared humanity – school, families and personal dreams.
After viewing the video, it is my personal hope that you make my brother, your brother too.

What a single mother nurse saw when she went out to treat a boy whom his brother fought with.