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THE FACE WITHIN

THE FACE WITHIN is a film documenting a live performance and video installation with fashion by Esther Perbandt. It aims to make the inner world visible and the artist asks "What do I feel?" in every moment of the performance. This project features Johanna Keimeyer live, on stage, in an interview with herself while cameras record and project parts of her face. In the interview Keimeyer questions herself: “Where do my thoughts come from? What is the origin of my being? Who is looking through my eyes?“ Projecting her own body with clustered video screens, she creates a visualization of feelings, perceptions and their limits.

“I invite the visitor to take a seat, perceive their bodies and step back to follow the current moment. There is no prescribed script just the vibrant liveliness of the now which lets the piece emerge. I want to explore deeper questions about identity and the core fundamental values that make us human, ‘Who are we ?’“, says the artist Johanna Keimeyer.

  • Johanna Keimeyer
    Director
  • Johanna Keimeyer
    Producer
  • Johanna Keimeyer
    Key Cast
  • Esther Perbandt
    costumes:
  • Chris Munteanu
    DOP:
  • Christian Feess
    Sound:
  • Stanislav Glazov
    Visuals:
  • Javier Blancio Chioccio
    camera
  • Nicolas Simkin
    camera
  • Jimmy Lee Wolff
    camera
  • Suong Nguyen
    camera
  • Max Kissler
    camera
  • Heiko Pense
    photographer
  • Arno
    photographer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media, Other
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 58 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 9, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    60,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    32:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • Johanna Keimeyer
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Johanna Keimeyer

Johanna Keimeyer is an experiential artist who creates immersive experiences using interdisciplinary forms. This can take the form of large scale art installations transforming site specific architecture with video, light, objects, scent and sound.

Her strength is to create participatory art experiences that combine cutting edge technology with art, fashion, film and design. Her ultimate focus is to allow the viewer to explore profound questions about identity and humanity’s values. Her motivation for her art is to make the invisible visible.

Keimeyer studied design and digital media at University of the Arts in Berlin (UdK), Tama Art University in Tokyo, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Rhode Island, USA, and Boston's MIT Media Lab, USA.

Her previous work includes a series of lighting made from recycled materials and her underwater photography in hotel pools around the world. She is continuing to explore those topics and practices as an experiential artist with interdisciplinary forms.

Keimeyer has worked in the art collections of Hugues and Marie Taittinger (Tattinger Champagne, France), Petch Osathanugrah (O Museum, Bangkok), Alexander von Vegesack (former Vitra Design Museum Director), Lucas Verweij (Design Author), the Leo Kuelbs Collection and more.

Her current practice as an experiential artist is drawn from her experience working for Vitra Design (Herman Miller in the US) and collaborating with designers and artists from various backgrounds and expertise including: Ingo Maurer (lighting designer), Humberto and Fernando Campana (furniture designers, Brazil), Bart Hess (fashion designer), Felix Kubin (musician), Sven Helbig (composer), Sevil Peach (architect), Jonah Bokaer (choreographer) and Sissel Tolaas (olfactive designer).

Awards: Faces of Design Award, (FoD, 2010), International Design Award Lighting (IDA, 2009), International Design Award Architecture (IDA, 2018).

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Director Statement

Keimeyer‘s essence represents the interplay of spirituality and art.
“My art also has the task of shifting boundaries of consciousness, and this can of course only be done through emotion, and only with the most essential questions about the meaning of life and death, about faith and about absolute humanity. My art is meant to help people to interpret things freely and a tool to reflect on their perceptions of themselves, to move them emotionally. It is precisely when the boundaries between real and unreal worlds blur that something special emerges, and art fulfills its purpose of making the invisible visible."

Johanna Keimeyer

”I want to give people a felt experience that unifies the artwork and the viewer’s own inner universe. I invite the audience to explore deeper questions about identity and the core fundamental values that make us human.”