User:Ines von Bonhorst

Ines von Bonhorst is originally from Portugal and is based in London for the last 8 years, she have a BA(Hons) in Film &TV production at Westminester University and a HND in Multimedia at Kent Institute of Arte and Design, she is a Director, producer, Editor and video artist with over 10 years of activity. Her works range from documentaries, long and short films, experimental films and video art installations, produced UK, Portugal and globally.

In her work she often explores notions of identity, form, human limit within a physical and mental realm and our relationship with society using the subconscious, surrealism and the counterfeit of being. She loves to mix the deceptive of the performance art, theater, circus, with life itself and thinks that the boundaries between the two realities are not so far from each other. Von Bonhorst uses space, architecture and mood as a way to tell a story or represent the sensations given by the location itself.

Many of her works try to create a spatial relationship between participants, she tries to create a connection between the real and the fictitious and aims to provoke sensations taken from our actual society such as anxiety, fear, love, claustrophobia and so on. She interacts with the viewer using her video installations in a way that the audience can gain a new insight into their own idea of existence. Von Bonhorst’s works often come as a result of prolific collaborations between different artists, such as composers, performers and visual artists.

She is one of the funders of Magma Collective (http://magmacollective.wordpress.com/about/) together with Yuri Pirondi and Jaime Valtierra

Film Selections 2013

- Official Selection for the Art film in Cannes Festival, (AVIFF Cannes), France - Official Selection for the 5to International video art Festival, Camagüey 2013 Cuba - Official Selection for the HEP 2013 video art Festival, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal - Official Selection for the Fonlad video art Festival, Coimbra, Portugal - “The Guise film” was screened on .Box Video Art Space, Milan - “The Guise film” was screened in Fest Art, Milan, Italy - “The Guise film” was screened in the main Art Fair in Jaén (AtJaen), Spain

Film Selection 2012

- Official Selection – best of ten films in Proyector Festival - Official Selection in Proyector Festival, Spain - Official selection to screen live in Visual container TV