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「ccc ad-fest」／“the darkroom”Exhibition

An audio-visual installation of short films, music videos, commercial work and more from 5 creatives of the darkroom, the experimental arm of Partizan.

Dates: 2010.07.03 (sat)–08.07 (sat)
Place: the center for creative communications (CCC)
Participating Creatives:
Saam Farahmand, Chris Cairns, Max Hattler, Poppy de Villeneuve, Timothy Saccenti

the darkroom
The Darkroom a division of Partizan production company, which has offices all over the world. With the advancement of technology, it brings forth new ways of communicating a brand's message with film production. Chris Cairns, Saam Farahmand, Ollie Evans are just a few of the experimental creatives in it's roster of creatives.

Participating Creatives

□Saam Farahmand
Saam graduated from Fine Art at Goldsmiths in 2002, and has become one of the most influential video director of his generation in the context of art, music, fashion, television, performance, online content, documentaries and advertising. Aside from making music videos for artists including Klaxons, Simian Mobile Disco, Hercules & Love Affair and Janet Jackson, and a feature-length documentary with Soulwax, Saam has done such projects as a film-based installation for Alexander McQueen Puma (Autumn Winter 09 collection) and a ‘physical music video’ installation for the band The xx.

www.partizan.com/partizan/musicvideos/?saam_farahmand
www.videoportraits.org/
www.facebook.com/pages/VideoPortraits/292255354992

□Chris Cairns
Chris likes describing sound visually. He studied graphic design at St Martins and after college he entered the industry as a runner while making videos for his flatmate Tom Vek. Those videos got him signed to Partizan. His short film featuring Shlomo and the Scratch Perverts, Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc was a huge viral hit and led to a live performance of the concept. He lives in London.
www.partizanlab.com/partizanlab/commercials/?chris_cairns
Neurosonics Video:
http://vimeo.com/6223439

□Poppy de Villeneuve
Poppy de Villeneuve graduated in 2002 with a BA in photography at the London College of Printing. Her stills editorial work is featured regularly in American Vogue, Esquire, Monocle, Art Review, British Vogue and most recently and the NY Times’ T magazine. Group shows include most recently, "Music Loves you" (Colette gallery; Paris), solo show "Strangers" (University of the Arts London/2007) and she was also included in the Helsinki Biennale in 2008. Her first short film was for the New York Times T magazine, shot at the Coachella music festival and titled ‘You are Everywhere’. Poppy signed to Partizan in March 2010. 
www.partizan.com/partizan/thedarkroom/
www.poppydevilleneuve.com

□Max Hattler
German experimental animator and media artist Max Hattler studied at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art in London. Max Hattler’s films have been featured at hundreds of festivals such as the London International Animation Festival, Videofestival Bochum and included in the touring programmes of the European Media Art Festival, onedotzero, and Resfest. Max has made music videos and tour visuals for several bands including Basement Jaxx and The Egg, and he has performed live audio-visuals across Europe, the Americas and Japan. He signed to Partizan Darkroom in May 2010.
www.maxhattler.com

□Timothy Saccenti
Timothy Saccenti is a director and photographer who lives in New York city and works worldwide. His reputation for creating singularly unique, immersive, stylized worlds for his subjects has put him in demand amongst industry-wide leading edge musicians, creative directors and fine art galleries. Timothy has created portraits of pop musicians such as Erykah Badu and Pharrell and collaborations with seminal experimental record labels including Warp Records and Domino. In 2008 he signed with world renowned production company Partizan. His clients include Sony, Audi, Nike, Nikon, EMI, Flaunt and Columbia.
www.partizan.com/partizan/musicvideos/?timothy_saccenti
http://timothysaccenti.com/

■For more information on this event

the center for creative communications (CCC)
4-16 Ote-machi, Aoi-ku
Shizuoka City 420-0853 JAPAN
tel：054-205-4750
info@c-c-c.or.jp