Stone Key Films presents High Rise Demise, a neo-noir thriller short film by Philip Carrel is now available to watch online. The story unfolds in the neon jungle of Hong Kong.
Michelle Claase plays a small supporting role alongside lead acctress Lynn Serulla. Also starring Henry Tang and Denis Moldovean.
Pretty Pass will Premiere on Saturday 05/10/2019 at 12:30pm at the Bioscope Theatre as part of the Jozi Film Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa, under the International Short Film section.
Directed by Evangelo Costadimas and written/produced/edited by Michelle Claase.
The Short Film PRETTY PASS is part of the Official Selection of International Shorts Film Festival in Australia.
Judging will take place later in the year, and winning films and finalists in each category will be screened at the festival in December. For more about the festival: www.internationalshorts.org
Siphonophore: Premiere's at South Film and Arts Academy Festival in Chile.
Michelle Claase wins “best editing” crew award in the short film category at South Film and Arts Academy Festival. The film also wins various other awards, including “best indie short film,” along with 4 honorable mentions!
Congrats to the director, Linnea Pihl.
Here are all the winners and honorable mentions: Winners.
Michelle Claase's work, "Oh My God, Why Didn't You Just Climb Into Bed With Her and Ask for a Bedtime Story" will be part of the ALTERATION group exhibition at Millepiani Gallery in Rome.
ALTERATION
Mostra Collettiva Fotografica / Digital
Presso Millepiani, via N. Odero,13 Roma
Dal 4 al 31 Luglio 2018
OPENING Mercoledì 4 Luglio ore 17:30
Visitabile dal lunedì al venerdì dalle ore 9:00 alle ore 18:00
Evento curato da LoosenArt
www.loosenart.com
A goody two-shoes faces the ultimate test when she finds herself stuck with a roommate from hell.
Pretty Pass is a dark comedy short film produced in association with Bao Bao Films, starring Lymari Alberts, Joyce Chan and Andrew Ng. The film is written, produced and edited by Michelle Claase, directed by Evangelo Costadimas, with cinematography by Etienne Leung.
Michelle Claase's video collage, Oh My, will be featured as part of the Comm Arts Show 2018.
The show at chi K11 Art Space exhibits the best communication art pieces from graduation students from majors including: advertising, graphic design, illustration, photography, and sequential art.
Two strangers wake up in a hotel room. Neither remember who the other is or how they got there. Or do they?
The production of Endless Story, a short film by BAO BAO FILMS, based on the screenplay by Michel J. Duthin, starring Kristina Pakhomova and Rayve Zen. Directing and cinematography by Evangelo Costadimas, produced by Hana Forrest, with Michelle Claase as editor / assistant director. Still photography by Janine Claase and Sarah Thrower.
All images Copyright Bao Bao films © 2018
Mediocre is presented by Nock Art Foundation and curated by This is NOT a Gallery.
Opening Reception:
March 28th, 2018
18:00-22:00
As a collaborative exhibition between the Nock Art Foundation and This is NOT a Gallery, mediocre features works highlighting emerging talent from Hong Kong’s cultural underbelly. Bridging the gap between the Nock Art Foundation’s established audience and the inclusive network of young creatives surrounding This is NOT a Gallery, the show challenges the hierarchical structure of the art and culture scene along with the labels that maintain divisions.
The artists use varying artistic vocabulary to explore the power dynamic associated with labels. The power they represent to us as apposed to the power they bear over us. The show encompasses a broad range of media from painting and photography to audio-visual installation and experimental textile design. Each artist approaches the idea of mediocrity from a unique perspective, offering both deviating interpretations and unifying truths. The work itself, presented in an alternative fashion, encourages the audience to interact with the pieces and consider the implications of the term “mediocre” within the context of art.
Instant gratification has become the norm as a result of modern technology. Our collective attention span has shortened considerably with certain studies suggesting that since the year 2000 the average attention span has dropped to eight seconds. A gold fish, in comparison, has an attention span of nine seconds. In an effort to cater to this shift in our culture, entertainment has conformed to our diminishing standards. The arts are not exempt from this process. Audiences have come to demand fast and easily digestible art, a niche for mediocre art.
By elevating artwork by emerging artists with the resources of the Nock Art Foundation, the myth of mediocrity is challenged. The question of how a shift in focus influences artistic mediums becomes apparent. The exhibition takes aim at the labels we use to define art and methodically breaks them down.
A story about Stockholm Syndrome, told from the perspective of a female victim held captive inside a warehouse building in Hong Kong.
Captivity (2018) is an experimental short film starring Barry O' Rorke, shot entirely from the victim's subjective point of view.
Produced by BAO BAO FILMS, written by Michelle Claase, directed by Evangelo Costadimas, produced by Dorcas Hor, with cinematography by Michael Rush.
All images Copyright Bao Bao films © 2018
This is NOT a Gallery presents Ubuntu 05: Do (NOT) Read Me, co-hosted by Michelle Claase and Jeremy Loo.
HINT 05: "Exquisite corpse"
Ubuntu is a night dedicated to art, company and conversation.
We invite dreamers, sceptics, artists and admirers alike. Art-Users of all forms are welcome to converse and create. We provide a space, ideas and an affordable dose of alcohol. We strive simply to provide a platform for expression.
For more info, contact: thisisnothk@gmail.com
Touch, Don't Dominate module mentored by Diego Del Pozo Barriuso with Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga
Michelle Claase was recently awarded an illycaffè S.p.A artist grant to attend an artist residency at the UNIDEE - University of Ideas at Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Italy.
Reflections on trans.figuration Artist Talk, 4-5PM
The four participating artists of t r a n s . f i g u r a t i o n share their perspectives on transformation and intervention as an essential part of their bodies of work. The talk is moderated by SCAD Fine Arts BFA alumna Sophie Cyzewski.
Participating Artists: Michelle Claase, Dik Luke, Inga Nelli, Sharu Sikdar
Transition Panel Discussion, 5-6PM
Moderated by Vivienne Chow (Critic and Founder of Cultural Journalism Campus) the panel discuss what emerging artists need to establish a career in Hong Kong.
Panelists: Lauren Every-Wortman (founder of HOCA), John Lui (artist and former Red Gate Residence director), and Andrew Luk (Artist) discuss the landscape of HK art scene and its opportunities for emerging artists.
Opening reception Thursday, May 18th
From 6:00 - 9:00 pm
The t r a n s . f i g u r a t i o n exhibition represents the cumulative point for the work of four fine art graduates as they transition into the art world. The show features Hong Kong based artists Michelle Claase, Dik Luke, Inga Nelli and Sharu Sikdar, who work with a variety of media including painting, mixed media, installation and new media. Through the process of intervention and transformation, the artists reveal the ways in which they interpret the fluctuating waves of life. Although each artist has a distinct approach to artmaking, they all share the common thread of translating their unique perspectives and transient experiences into more tangible, visual forms. The show reflects an intersection of marks, lines and layers, which typifies their evolving artistic identities.
We are pleased to announce Disclosed, a multi-media group exhibition, curated by Michelle Claase, and hosted by Campfire Creative.
The exhibition features work related to language used in both verbal and visual communication. Artist’s deal with themes surrounding language used in both public and private space. Through the artist’s analysis and recontextualization of both written and spoken words, new dialogues and messages are created.
Featuring Artworks By:
Janine Claase
Michelle Claase
Sophie Cyzewski
Pong Tong
XXX Gallery presents Seven, a fine art exhibition curated by Jonathan Yoerger. The exhibition features seven emerging artists, from seven different countries, all based in Hong Kong.
Featured Artists:
Boroka Panna Kopacz
Chan Yin Sing (Adrian)
Francesca Inciong
Inga Nelli
Ingjerd Ytterdal
Michelle Claase
Ni Qian Hui (Trista)
Opening Reception / Thursday, March 17, 2016 7-10PM
Artist Talk / Thursday, March 17, 2016 8PM
We are pleased to announce RE-FORMAT, a group exhibition featuring works by Michelle Claase, Sophie Cyzewski, Jason Kam, Wai Lung Ip, and Yi-Hsin Tzeng. The works exhibited explore each artist's distinctive narratives and experiences in deconstruction and alteration of personal identity within the fluxes of contemporary time and fluid art media. Their works are manifested in alternative painting, magazine paper, digital media, and performances while invoking and challenging the notion of body objectification, value of labor and art, and complex layers of dislocation. Michelle Claase, Sophie Cyzewski, and Jason Kam are current candidates for Painting BFA at SCAD-HK.
Michelle Claase (b.1989, South Africa) has been based in Hong Kong for the past seven years. She often deals with the body as the subject of her work, exploring themes surrounding identity, anonymity, defence mechanisms and entrapment within the human form. Claase's background as a fashion model has contributed to her interest with the body. In her recent work, Claase alters the image of the models from fashion magazines, removing and fragmenting the figures' identities and bodies to transform them like lifeless dolls - mannequins. The figures' disassembled parts are reattached, re-visualized to look like puppets, which evokes the fashion industry's exploitive usage of body images in its branding.
RAW, is an independently organised group show held at DreamLikeBubbles in Kennedy Town, features new mixed media work by 9 emerging Hong Kong based artists:
Aurore Baron
Michelle Claase
Mandy Kan
Johanna Keim
Tim Lai
Ethan Lo
Marcus Lo
Benny Sin
Inbal Sella
Hanna Yang
Michelle Claase (B.F.A., painting), Panna Kopacz (B.F.A., interior design), and Corinne Caro (B.F.A., sequential art) will deliver masterful presentations, using various storytelling techniques to discuss their artwork and personal creative goals at SCADtalks 2015.
Michelle's talk addresses the limiting effect of labels, and discusses ways she's been able to counter some of the labels she'd been assigned with.
