Marcelo von Schwartz

Marcelo von Schwartz is a film director, architect, and art photographer.
His work is known for focusing on the dark side of things. He has worked on over 20 film/video art projects, and recently released the feature film Dark Bridge Binaural Brainwaves, which utilizes the hypnotic qualities of binaural beats for heightened cinematic effect. His work reflects the conjunction of different disciplines, always searching for new challenges and limits. His architectural projects are focused on futuristic solutions while the films are structured by invisible architectural laws – incorporating also ideas from neuroscience – and his photographs seek the impossible, being currently considered one of the heirs of MC Escher’s work.
Creative journey
Marcelo von Schwartz completed his studies at the University of Buenos Aires in architecture and went on to study filmmaking under David José Kohn, one of the most influential Argentine filmmakers and a precursor to the Argentine Nouvelle Vague of the 60s (one of the “60’s generation”).
After working in Barcelona as Art Director and Production Designer on various independent films, he wrote and produced the 35mm Neo-expressionist short film Phoenix. The film competed in over 30 festivals worldwide, winning international recognition and several awards.
In 2014 released the Binaural Brainwave version of his movie Dark Bridge, his first long feature film, entirely shot in Bangkok. It is significant in being the first feature film to include a mixed Theta Binaural Brainwave through the entire movie’s score to accentuate its hypnotic mood, opening the door to “new subconscious movie experiences” – a precursor to the new Neurocinema movement.
He has also recently made a visual collaboration with RECOIL (Alan Wilder, former keyboardist, and songwriter of Depeche Mode) for the RECOIL Selected World Tour 2010-2011.
Currently is developing a VR thriller 3D movie project to shoot in Asia in 2023 among other photography projects.

Art Exhibitions/Art Events

2022 [May] Die Lange Nacht der Forschung AR exhibition Vienna

2022 [March] Tokyo Still Motion-with Tomoo Nagai-, NIAV, Fukushima, Japan

2021 [October-November] Breathe – AR collective exhibition at Desiderio Gallery, Vienna

2021 [November] Tokyo Still Motion -with Tomoo Nagai-, Tennozu Isle, Tokyo
2021 May to Ocotober Metropolitan, Da Noi, Bangkok
2020-21 [December-February] Bangkok Dreamscapes at Rivercity Bangkok
2019 [October] Metropolis. The Bangkok Club, Bangkok
2018 [October] Art Takes SoHo [Collective] The Untitled Space, Tribeca, New York
2018 [September] SPACES [Collective] Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi Architecture Biennale Venice
2018 [April] Bangkok Dreams Solo exhibition Continent Hotel Bangkok
2017 [October] ESCAPE Solo Exhibition RMA Institute Bangkok
2017 [May] Tokyo International Art Fair Japan
2015 Epokalipto, Bangkok Slideluck I, [New York] The Space, Bangkok
2012 Dark Cabaret Photo Book Launch, Warp Studio, Bangkok
2011 Dark Bridge [Feature film, 90’], Premiere at Puchon Fantastic Festival, Seoul
2010 Art Videos for RECOIL World Tour, SELECTED/Strange Hours 2010-11, US-Europe
2007 [H]opening and Trayectos Extremos, OffLoop, Nau Ivanow, Barcelona
2006 [H]opening, [video-art] ARCO Madrid, Jacobo Karpio Gallery Miami
2005 Trayectos Extremos [video-art], Miami Art Fair, Segovia-Isaacs Gallery Barcelona
2004 Imaginary Landscapes, [Photography] Galeria Segovia-Isaacs, Barcelona
2003 New Figuration [Photography] Galeria Segovia-Isaacs, Barcelona
2001 Gaudi Moving [Video Art], Casa Mila, Fundacio Caixa de Catalunya, Barcelona
1998 Phoenix [Art short film] Premiered-Awarded at 60th.Brno Film Festival [Czech Republic]
Photobooks
2012 Dark Cabaret
2019 Two Realities [Curator]
2021 Tokyo Still Motion with Tomoo Nagai, album+photobook, Japan
Upcoming Exhibitions
Bodyscapes [Bangkok]
February 2022
Living Portraits [Barcelona]
July 2022
Contact
mvonschwartz@gmail.com
www.marcelovonschwartz.com

Tomoo Nagai

Tomoo Nagai is a percussionist, drummer, and composer. Born Shizuoka, Japan, 1975. Undergraduate, BA and Graduate,MFA Degrees from Tokyo University of the Arts. As a student Nagai was exposed to Jazz. He explores improvisation in Live House performances and in concerts experimenting in different styles of music genre and recording. He creates his own original instruments and gives solo concerts performing with them.

He performed with the group, LULI, with French musicians, Fabrice Bony, Samantha Zaccarie and Japanese musician Yasuyo Iso.  Nagai has also performed with the Trio, EPOCUS created with Koichi Yamaguchi (pianist) and Yutaka Kaido (bassist). He has performed with Sto-Mocs with Sachiko Nagata  « Il conformista » with Morley Robertson. He created a collaborative work with  musicians Akira Sakata, Yuki Saga, concerning the poetry of Kazuko Shiraishi,

Nagai created  a soundtrack for the movie”TAMAGO”, “FLOAT”, titled “Song of Windswept Traces” and was the director for an original work he created and performed for the exhibition of Kiyoshi Hibi, titled”The Night the Moon Came Closest to the Earth”.” He created and perfomed a percussion work, titled “metallications” and “saboten”, for the San Paulo Teatro Yuba Ballet Company established in 2011.

Music composed for the public was realized by Nagai in his project « Sound for 31 Stations » a tonal work which resounds throughout 31 stations on the Kinokuni line of the Japan Railway in Wakayama Prefecture. Nagai also worked on the project « Sounds for Tennoz Central Tower » creating musical pieces for the building’s public spaces.

Touring  internationally Nagai has  performed in Indonesia, Brazil, France, Morocco and Iceland  from2005-2014. Recent Solo Concert performances  include Opera City and  Omigakudo in Tokyo, Japan.

In 2013, The French Japanese Cultural Center in Toulouse (CCFJT) France, released his solo album « 514 Pictures ».

Musical Activities

2015 

HUES 1st album [in hue notes] Publication, Vo:Manami ISHIKAWA  G:Hideki TSUCHIYA

Torainart 2015 (Music director)

Shimane tour with pianist Noriko KOSE, Shimane Pref. Japan

Music for Theater Shizuoka SPAC, “Flying kingdom Aristophanes-The Birds-”

Solo concert , OVE Minami Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan

Eri Matuzaki “Parnassus” , Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre , Tokyo, Japan

Iceland tour “Reflctions”2015 , (Akureiry Art Museum) ,Arkureiry, Iceland

Solo concert, OVE Nakanoshima ,Osaka , Japan

Sound Track for Film [TAMAGO], (Mac Film Festival BRASIL Award of best cinematography, Accolade Global Film Competition America Award of recognition, Luisville’s International festival of film America Award of “On the Edge”, 2015 Oregon Film Awards America Gold Award of “First time director”, Filmmakers of the Year Film Festival 2015 Indonesia Gold Award.)

LULI Japan tour, Japan G:Fabrice BONY, Vo,Video:Samantha ZACCARIE,Vo:Yasuyo ISO

France Tour 2015, France

Composition for TENNOZ CENTRAL TOWER Building,「Sound for TENNOZ CENTRAL TOWER 」Tokyo, Japan

2014

Composition for 31 Stations of JR line 「Sounds for 31 Stations 」Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Solo concert ,Tokyo Opera city,Tokyo, Japan

Solo concert , Machiyama temple, Tokyo, Japan

France Tour 2014 , France

Fresh Winds Art Symposium 2014 , Iceland

2013

Solo concert , OVE Minami Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan

Art Tanabe 2013 Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

France Tour 2013

Album [the colors of water] Publication with Piano Noriko KOSE

Solo Album [514 Pictures] Publication from C.C.F.J.T France

“Full bloom” Art Symposium, France

2012

Concert at Morocco [The Traveling ORIN Project]

[The Traveling ORIN ] Publication

Art Tanabe 2012

France Tour 201

2011

Music for Teatro YUBA , Brazil

Brasil Tour 2011

Haruo HIGUMA Paradigm Shift ,Tokyo, Japan

sto-mocs Album [THAUMTROPE] Publication

ESPIRA Japan Tour 2011

Music for Theater [Tukiga Itibann Chikaduita Yoru] , Tokyo, Japan

2010

sto-mocs Japan Tour 2010

ESPIRA Japan Tour 2010

Art works for Deco Galeria ,Sao-Paulo Brazil

Concert EchigoTsumari Triennial , Nigata, Japan

Music for Exhibition [SABOTEN] , Tokyo, Japan

Produce music instruments for Baptist church , Okinawa, Japan

Music and musical instruments for exhibition [ISU ISU ISU] , Tokyo

2009

Performance [Akikann] ,Tokyo, Japan

Music for Kiyosi HIBI’s exhibition , Tokyo, Japan

ESPIRA Japan Tour 2009

2006

Takao Studio Inauguration , Tokyo, Japan

Music for Film [Fuumonnno utagoe]

Album [EPOCUS], Publication with Piano Trio EPOCUS

2005

EPOCUS, Indonesia Tour 2005 , Indonesia

Album [TALK HARD] Publication with Band “Flight Of Idea”

Music Production for Film [Float]