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  “White Swan”

6:13 minutes, 2009, Belgium

DIRECTOR: Sil van der Woerd

www.silvanderwoerd.com/whiteswan

Summary:

In the depths of a dark machinery world lies Lolly Jane Blue, exhausted, soaked. As she starts to sing of escaping her situation a mesmerizing world unfolds.

White Swan is Sil van der Woerd's second music video for singer Lolly Jane Blue. The video was shot in a dead coal mine in Belgium with the Red One camera. The post production was done in collaboration with students from Gnomon School of Visual Effects.

Director Biography

In 2005, Sil van der Woerd, born in the Netherlands in 1982, finished his study Fine Arts (Cum Laud) at the Academy of Art and Design in Arnhem, the Netherlands. At the Academy , Sil started using film and mixed new media, live action and dominant soundtracks to express his fictitious, atmospheric worlds.

In 2004 his short film Duet started to gain public attention and had a series of succesful festival plays. Then the short film Swim went global and brought home several awards and nominations.

After his study in the Netherlands, Sil studied at Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood. At Gnomon, Sil learned lots of new techniques that he exhibited in his award winning music video Worms for singer Lolly Jane Blue.

Worms was the beginning of a colaboration between Sil and the singer where they started to built a visual world around the songs. This resulted in photography and visuals that were projected during live performances. The making of Worms was covered in a 10 hour training DVD series recorded at the Gnomon Workshop.

By 2009 Duet, Swim and Worms received a combined total close to 2 million views on YouTube. In between, Sil created an underwater sequence for the 9th edition of Sensation, the world's leading dance event and did freelance work for OneSize, a Dutch Motion Graphics company.

Currently, Sil is back at Gnomon, this time as Artist in Residence, where he wraps up the second music video for Lolly Jane Blue titled White Swan. For this project, Sil collaborated with a group of Gnomon students to complete the post production. White Swan will be released on July 11th.

As of August 2009, Sil will be directing commercial work at Digital Domain.

See more of Sil’s work at SilvanderWoerd.com