MANCHESTER - MADRID

Hi everyone!

I hope you're all doing well, even if it's been freezing in the UK lately!!
Recently I've been traveling to Manchester and Madrid, two cities that basically have nothing in common, especially the weather... Well, actually they're both well known for their famous football teams but since I'm not a huge fan of the game, I was not gonna point that out (but I did).
Anyway, I very much enjoyed my stay there and obviously took loads of pictures!!

Here are my favorite ones, you won't really be able to recognize the cities through the pictures but I didn't really want to showcase my tourist photo skills.

Enjoy!

See you soon,

Lamia xx

Selah Sue - Fear Nothing

MANTISSE

Hi everyone!

Happy New Year !!! Time passes by so fast....
I don't know if you remember that, but last year I was preparing a short film called MANTISSE. It came to an end last summer, though we had loads of problems sound wise and I am finally allowed to share it with you (as some festivals have very restrictive policies). It's a noir about 9 min long exploring how rhetoric can be used to change people's perceptions with a bit of a twist ending.

SYNOPSIS:

In a dark interrogation room, Mr Jangus is questioning the untameable Mrs Mantisse, who’s suspected for her husband’s murder. Mantisse is a sarcastic dark woman and it is hard to get anything from her. After several attempts to make her admit her crime, we discover their game and real intentions. This is also a satire on TV series interrogations as they always seems to go towards the same directions.

YOU CAN WATCH IT HERE ==> https://vimeo.com/168071296 

Hope you like it !!

See you soon,

Lamia xx

Chicago - Cell Block Tango

BLOOD ON THE LEAVES

Hi everyone!

Last week, I took some pictures and I thought I would share them with you. I hope you'll like them !!

I quite like the red version as well so I thought I would post it too. Let me know what you think!

TOMATO SOUP

Hi everyone!

I hope you're all doing well and enjoying the festive season! Last week, I made an experimental short film for my Audio-vision module. The task was to explore the dialogue between the image and the sound in a 1 to 3 min video. I tried to make an original statement with mine. I'm kind of denouncing war, representing it as an absurd tomato soup. But since it's an artistic piece, you can interpret it however you want! Enjoy!

I'm still a bit shocked over the attacks in Istanbul and Berlin, especially Berlin as I was there just two weeks ago... My short film is therefore quite current unfortunately.

BERLIN

Hi everyone!

I hope everything's going great for you and that you're enjoying the festive season!! 
Last week, I traveled to Berlin. I had never been to germany before and I was really surprised that it was a lot colder than London (maybe because the weather is dry there). 
Moreover, I thought people were quiet nice there, even if that's not the image most of us have of germans for some reasons. 

I only spent a few days in the city but it was definitely worth it and enough to get a glimps of the most important monuments. 
Plus, seeing in person the Berlin wall was even an emotional moment, I studied so much about it in high school, was almost surreal.
All in all, It was so rich historically, architecturally and culturally that I obviously took loads of pictures.  

See you very soon,
Lamia xx

Albert Mangelsdorff Quartet - Never Let It End 

HOCKEY

Hi everyone!

I hope you're all doing well and enjoying the beauties of autumn!! As some of you might already know, I started playing hockey last year and absolutely fell in love with the sport. It is a bit like football rule wise, however I was absolutely not used playing with a hockey stick but I eventually managed to get around with it. Back to the point, today we played agains LSE at the Olympic stadium which was pretty amazing :D, and as I was a sub I took some pictures during the match so I thought I would share with you my best shots of the day! Unfortunately we lost but it was still a really good game!

Please enjoy the very colorful photos as it is quite rare in my posts.
Hope you'll like it!

See you very soon,
Lamia xx

Moby - Natural Blues

Short Films

Hi everyone!

I hope you're all doing very well and enjoying the summer (even though the weather is a bit schizophrenic)!
As I told you in the last post, I've been busy working on a few short films this last 2 months. It has finally come to an end, and I'm quite happy with the result!

In the first one: "Studio 69" which is a comedy about 3 guys wanting to become porn stars, I was only in charge of the sound. It is a very funny story so I really recommend you to watch it  :D
For the second one: "Contactless", I did the color correction and grading as well as the sound recording. However, we had a lot of problem sound wise as it was very windy on the day we decided to shoot outdoors.Therefore, we had to do some ADR (Automated dialogue replacement) but it sounded very different from the sound recorded on location and still doesn't sound very natural... The photography however is not that bad so you can have a look!
The story takes place in a café and stages a homeless man stalking a young girl working as a waitress there. I don't wanna spoil it so if you wanna know why he's following her:

I hope you'll like it!
Have a nice week,

Lamia xx