Peace Starts with Me

The Films

• Magali Charrier

  “Peace starts with me. Here. My body. Through fragmentation and dislocation, this film explores the body as a place where inner conflicts and tensions are played out. A frenetic collage gives way to a more serene version of the body. Peace comes as a sudden breath born out of chaos.”

  Magali Charrier is an experimental filmmaker and animator. She juxtaposes live action and animation to investigate the moving body and its failings. She graduated from the Royal College of Art, in 2010. Her first solo exhibition is currently on show in Seoul at the Soomdo Gallery.

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• Tom Gran & Kayleigh Gibbons

  “For us, peace is about letting go. We all have the potential to destroy each other and our resistance to letting go of our defenses makes conflict much more dangerous. Our film follows a society of living threads as they desperately support hundreds of bladed objects in mid-air.”

  Tom Gran and Kayleigh Gibbons graduated from the University of the West of England in 2010. Their first film Scunner premiered at Encounters Film Festival and was screened throughout the world. This is their second project together.

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• Max Hattler

  “My film is about mirroring and feedback abstract patterns and shapes fill the two sides of the screen, taking us on a journey from disharmony to peace. Conceptually, it’s about how violence breeds violence and love breeds love. Only by turning the other cheek can we bring about change, understanding and peace.”

  Educated at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art, Hattler has made over 20 moving image works and has shown at exhibitions and film festivals worldwide, winning many awards. He is also active in the field of audiovisual performance and has worked with music acts like Basement Jaxx.

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• Christine Malloy & Joe Lawlor

  “Our film is a portrait of a community, united in a celebration of peace. What starts as one individual ends in a large and spectacular group portrait, with people from all backgrounds standing together and sharing a moment of tranquility. Peace starts with me and gradually expands to include everyone. We are all connected.”

  Irish-born Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor studied theatre at Dartington College of Arts. Over the years their films have screened extensively around the world including screenings at Telluride, Rotterdam, London, Sydney, Thessaloniki, Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Singapore, Pusan, Durban and Morelia.

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• Noriko Okaku

  “Peace is always in your life, if you look for it. In my film, the word peace is concealed within an abstract landscape⎯at times clearly discernible, at others hidden. The film is meant to seem chaotic. Like the principles of Yin and Yang, positive and negative, peace exists within chaos and vice versa.”

  Japanese-born Noriko Okaku studied at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, and the Royal College of Art. Her art ranges from audiovisual work, to performance and experimental animation. She has had solo exhibitions in galleries in Japan and Europe.

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• Jacco Olivier

  “My film is an abstract visualization of the feelings and imagery that haunt me in the transitional space between sleep and wakefulness. I am a slow starter—every morning, before I can approach the world worry-free and open-minded, I need to first drain the negative. Only then am I happy and at peace with myself.”

  Jacco Olivier lives and works in Amsterdam, where he studied at the Rijksakademie. He is represented by the Victoria Miro Gallery in London; the Marianne Boesky gallery in New York; the Thomas Schulte Gallery in Berlin, and Ron Mandos Gallery in Amsterdam. His work has been exhibited extensively worldwide since 2003.

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• Bill Porter

  “Two fighters face one another in the ring, surrounded by spectators in masquerade. The bell sounds and the fighters jump into action. The spectators become more and more frenzied as the blows get harder and the fighters less guarded. Finally they peak and, exhausted, slump into one another—a moment of peace.”

  Bill Porter grew up on the isolated, wind-swept coast of North Cornwall. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art, in 2008, he now works as an animator/director in London and has screened at various animation festivals and galleries around the world.

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