Duration: 00:01:58

Technology: Hybrid digital and analogue. Live dancers are shot against green screen and digitally recomposed using coded repetition, delay, scaling, rotation, and frame repositioning in After Effects. The choreography is entirely composited.

In Ripple, dancers Simon Bus and Alesya Dobysh dissemble and merge, their forms manipulated to become ripple effects that hint at possibilities beyond the present and push the boundaries between other and self. The lines between what is captured from life and what is artistic fabrication are unclear, as dancers’ bodies are orchestrated through time and space in a mesmerizing moving image work.

Brands featured: Balenciaga, Jil Sander, Loewe, Prada, Thom Browne, Versace.

Bart Hess is a Dutch artist and designer whose distinctive practice explores the relationship between the body, material and technology. Working across art, design and fashion, he has collaborated with Lucy McRae, Iris van Herpen, Lady Gaga and Nick Knight, and frequently works with dancers and choreographers to create entrancing moving image and performance works.

He is one of the creators selected for POV, a new series of cutting-edge videos created in partnership with NOWNESS, a global video channel celebrating creative excellence in storytelling and the extraordinary of every day across art, design, fashion, beauty, music, food and travel, exploring new forms of storytelling, worldbuilding and fashion through
creative technology with a human touch.