Smile, Mirror is a movie about four women inside a room - "The Girl With The Beautiful Voice", "The Girl Who Is Braiding Her Hair", "The Girl Lying In Bed" and "The Girl With The Moist Eyes" and the question of the expectation of the pain, what we expect and what others expect of our pain.
23 min
2014
Director Carlos Vin Lopes
Cinematographer Yuri Salvador
Music Rodrigo Garcia
Editor Carlos Vin Lopes
Sound Julian Breuer
Production Assistant Henning Ebermann
Color Grading Samanta do Amaral
Actress Ida Keskic
Actress Monika Freinberger
Actress Sofia Pintzou
Actress Anna Athanasiou
Sweet Water of Memory tell a story about Leon, who collects a series of perfumes that are mixtures of smells that are connected with his memories. Each one of these memories connects him to a type of feeling that he uses in his daily life. Questioning the normality of his behavior, Leon asks himself, what in fact being normal is?
15 min
2016
Director Carlos Vin Lopes
Producer Jonathan Steinhardt
Producer Nicola Suesser
Cinematographer Yuri Salvador
Camera Assistant Philip Henze
Camera 2 Leo Conceição
Camera 2 Stefan Thissen
Light Anika Schulze
Editor Carlos Vin Lopes
Sound Design Adrian Lorenz
Sound Mix Sebastian Sanchéz
Atmo Design Robert Niemeyer
Foley Artist Robert Niemeyer
Make up Josephine Gall
Make up Alexandra Welke
Scenography Coralie Stier
Composer Raoul Vignal
Animator Hagar Faibish
Translator Viktor Toth
Colorist Samanta do Amaral
Photographer Katy Otto
Photographer Jérôme Lühr
Photographer Thabo Thindi
Actor Maximilian Nepomuk
Actor Sebastian Stielke
Actress Jana Klinge
Actor Filip Grujic
Actress Aylin Esener
Actress Alice Pocnet
Actress Andrezza Woolf
Actress Ronya Peters
Actress Anna Tilling
Actress Luise-Caroline Gali
Actor Max Mischok
Strawberry Jam is a movie about an exchange of ideas between the value of the silence and the value of the words. Mily in a contemplative moment, admiring the process of Vinzent in silence eating his breakfast, asks: “Can you fill my silence?”. The answer of the question begins with another question - “With words?”.
24 min
2018
Director Carlos Vin Lopes
Producer Jonathan Steinhardt
Cinematographer Yuri Salvador
Production Supervisor Alexander Maulwurf
Music Cuarteto Rotterdam and Ronei Jorge
Editor Carlos Vin Lopes
Gaffer Florian Pusch
Light Assistant Leroy Hawelky
Sound Ralf Hermann
Costume Lena Chabrova
Make up & Hair Alexandra Welke
Set Design Pia Sophia Steinhardt
Audio Mix Marcel Dadalto
Photographer Katy Otto
Actress Diana Marie Müller
Actor Christian Natter
In Search of a Landscape is a documentary about an association of local stakeholders that saved a monument from an imminent destruction and is currently overseeing the restoration efforts.
Their ambitious project aims to transform this vast space into a hub for nature, agriculture, and culture, open to the public.
Visual artist Chrystel Lebas engages in long-term projects involving photography, sound, and video. Her work documents and reveals changes in nature caused by ecological and anthropological interactions, and together with a map from 1723, they embark on a short journey to understand who is part of the transformation of this territory.
20 min
2024
Director Carlos Vin Lopes
Creative Producer Valerio Nicoletti
Cinematographer Carlos Vin Lopes
Art Direction Lucia Sgrafetto
Music Aude Langlois
Editor Carlos Vin Lopes
Audio Aude Langlois
Color Grading Carlos Vin Lopes
Produced by Förderverein Hofgestüt Bleesern e.V.
Kultur-und Kunstverein Kemberg e.V.
Polygona Kunstverein e.V. Bad Düben
In Cooperation with Passage — Artist-in-Residence Programm
Promesses is the first solo EP release from the French sound artist and sound designer Aude Langlois based in Berlin. The short film music video was shot in the German countryside using LOMO vintage anamorphic lenses, amplifying a certain sense of melancholy and unsettling mystery evoked by Aude's voice and lyrics.
6 min
2020
Director Carlos Vin Lopes
Creative Producer Valerio Nicoletti
Cinematographer Andres Lizana Prado
Production Manager Jana Francke
Location Manager Jan Stradtmann
Editor Carlos Vin Lopes
Unit Production Management Mighty Modern
Soundmix Dennis Beckmann
Additional mix / Mastering Elie Gregory
Additional mix / Mastering Elie Gregory
CAST
Lucie Aron
Rodger Brown
Jan Stradtmann
Linda Sykora
Aude Langlois
Hoxton Berlin & Adidas Runners invented me to direct a video featuring Berlin-based Lynn Maleen, running captain for Adidas Runners, as part of their collaboration with The Hoxton, ahead of the Berlin Marathon.
2 min
2024
Blind Data is a series when two strangers (a German and a French) meet and develop a relationship, without ever seeing each other, as they are required to be blindfolded at every moment. They are part of a scientific study where there are clear rules: they can't see each other (both wear blindfolds), personal information are forbidden as both signed a contract, and they let two scientists watch them and eventually turn their lives around as they go into something much deeper than a simple experiment.
The project is a mix between documentary and fiction.
9 episodes
Around 15 min each episode
2015
Director Carlos Vin Lopes
Producer Jonathan Steinhardt
Cinematographer Andres Lizandra Prado
Camera Assistant Jonas Maintz
Camera Assistant Dan Flegler
Camera Assistant Marjan Grunewald
Production Assistant Alexander Maulwurf
Production Assistant Fabian Esdadero
Editor Carlos Vin Lopes
Motion Designer Alf Ruge
Audio Adrian Lorenz
Audio Tobias Rüther
Audio Rainer Pappenberger
Audio Caspar Sachsse
Colorist Daniel Pipper
Gaffer Yuri Salvador
Make Up Alexandra Welke
Composer Serge Geyzel
Composer Sven Weisemann
Composer Balmorhea
Costume Lena Chabrova
Photographer Katy Otto
Actress Caroline du Bled
Actor Tobias Steinhardt
Actor Sebastian Stielke
Actress Nina Machalz
Seeds is a music video made between Sweden and Denmark for the Swedish artist Minru.
5 min
2017
Director Carlos Vin Lopes
Producer Jonathan Barbir
Cinematographer Yuri Salvador
Camera Assistant Juliette Bral
Costume Anne-Katrin Ruelicke
Editor Carlos Vin Lopes
Colorist Daniel Pieper
Colorist Yuri Salvador
Photographer Alexandru Schiau
International Invitational Poster Exhibition (CIIPE) is a series of exhibitions and events featuring the world’s most distinguished poster artists and designers. The Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (CIIPE)
CIIPE invited me to present two of my works at this year's Biennial.
The Biennial has been held since 1979 with the aim of inviting different poster artists/designers from different parts of the world to present their latest work to a North American audience.
The work I created in partnership with the composer and professor of Music Composition, Paulo Rios Filho, a musician focused on experimental music who has performed in most Brazilian states and a dozen countries around the world.
2024
The project focuses on a visual dialog between experimental music and graphic design.
Paulo composed the piece entitled “Oxóssi” and from then on I started creating graphic compositions that led me to the production of these two big posters.
The name “Oxóssi” comes from a mythology of African religions, known as an orixá, and he is one of dozens of orixás that exist in this mythology. The myth of Oxóssi says that he was a hunter who protected his community and the forest with a single bow and arrow. He was able to hit with his arrow the chest of a bird sent by evil beings, whose aim was to spread hunger, misery and destruction to his people.
From this story, the myth says that he is able to drive away pain and bring joy with his arrow.
On one of the posters, I included an excerpt in Portuguese from Paulo's research and composition process:
“Will we be able to say anything interesting about other forms of thought and sociability in terms of how they differ from our own? Or are we limited to what seems that we define as “common”, to ourselves and to others?”
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Since September 2024 I am one of the professor at Catalyst - Institute for Creative Arts and Technology in Berlin.
For the Bachelor's degree, I am teaching the courses Image Composition and Narrative.
The Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (CIIPE) invited me to present two of my works at this year's Biennial. The Biennial has been held since 1979 with the aim of inviting different poster artists/designers from different parts of the world to present their latest work to a North American audience.
I am really glad with this invitation and I would like to thank Jason Frazier, John Gravdahl and Roberto Muntoreanu for the opportunity to be part of this event.
In January 2022 I founded a studio in Berlin called Grupppo - Image-Making & Storytelling together with two other partners, Valerio Nicoletti and Lucia Sgrafetto.
We have been developing, planning and executing transdisciplinary projects that essentially include filmmaking, graphic design, web design, moving images, research, performances, CGI, spatial design, 3D, art projects and writing.
The Ladenkino Berlin invited me to be one of the speakers of the discussion panel on racism in the art and film industry in Germany together with the artists Malonda, Fairooz Aniqa and Malele Ncube. We had the panel at the movie theater stage at Fusion Festival 2023.
I was selected and invited to the Future Diversity BIPoC 2023 by Art Director Club Germany.
"There is an underrepresentation of creatives from diverse backgrounds in the creative industry in Germany. That is an undisputed fact. As ADC, our goal is to help change this status quo. Because creativity needs different people, their experiences, their expertise, their emotions, their perspectives - creativity needs diversity.
Our goal is therefore, on the one hand, to motivate the industry to become more diverse. On the other hand, and this is the most important thing - to support the creative diversity talents themselves!"
I was invited to be one of the speakers of the Design & Visual Art Event OFFF DACH 2022.
The Biennial Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (CIIPE) invited 80 designers/artists from around the world and I am so glad they put me on this list for this year's exhibitions. The event started on October 23th until November 4th at the Curfman Gallery, Lory Student Center, Hatton Gallery and Visual Arts Building in Colorado, USA.
Thanks again Jason Frazier, John Gravdahl and Roberto Muntoreanu for this invitation.
FREE THE WORK is a non-profit organization committed to making equity actionable in media and to creating opportunities for a global workforce of underrepresented creators behind the lens in TV, film, and marketing.
It is an honor to be on this Creator Spotlight on the platform.
The Bolivia Poster Biennal BICeBé is the most important international event of design and visual arts in Bolivia and the Southern Cone. BICeBé today is referenced integrator of Latin America through responsible design practice.
Since its inception in 2009, it has established the highest standards of national and international design and has created a network, like no other event, with all design schools and universities in Bolivia and Latin America. Each year, reunites great masters and outstanding professionals of the national and international environments, and also recognizes new actors, projects and initiatives in all the areas of design and visual arts.
The poster I created together with the art director Valerio Nicoletti for the social project with refugee kids in Berlin was selected for the Biennal in 2021.
And in 2009 I won the main prize in the Biennial with a project about the migration in South America.
Print is an American design and culture Magazine and website that began as Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts, in 1940.
As a printed publication, Print was a general-interest magazine, written by cultural reporters and critics who looked at design in its social, political, and historical contexts, from newspapers and book covers to Web-based motion graphics.
The project I was responsible to create the visual identity and concept "Where is Zuhause?" about and with refugee children in Berlin was featured on the platform.
New York International Screenplay Awards is an international screenplay competition for screenwriters who aspire to connect with the USA industry workers and explore the US markets.
My screenplay "Paradise at Night" was nominated at the Festival.
With the project Passage, the Kultur- und Kunstverein Kemberg e.V. (Kemberg Culture and Art Association) would like to facilitate temporary working residencies for artists from the fields of photography and film who approach the Dübener Heide in their work on site – a region that is characterised by extensive changes.
We created posters that were exhibited on the streets of of Arles in France during the Rencontres de Photograpie 2021.
The project is supported by the LEADER program in the Dübener Heide and receives funding from the European Social Fund 2020-2021 and 2022-2023
The project Where is Zuhause? was materialised in a series of workshops held with kids from different backgrounds but now all living in Berlin with their families.
We let the children manifest their emotions, exploring visual paths ranging from figurative representation to more abstract drawings. Subsequently, we tried to connect each one of these visual expressions with a feeling, by writing down notes, some in the form of small paragraphs, others as single words.
The visual content of this project is organized into four sections, representing our attempt to connect with the children’s experience: the departure from their countries (journey), the welcome in Germany (arrival), the integration into this new reality (adaption) and the next steps (future).
The project was funded by Berliner ProjektFonds Kulturelle Bildung.
Carlos Vin Lopes, Filmmaker & Graphic Designer /Art Director based in Berlin.
Carlos Vin finished a Master Degree in Visual Communication at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee – Germany.
He was a scholarship holder of the prestigious German institution DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
He is one of the founders of the studio Grupppo - Image-Making & Storytelling.
