honorable mention
Kuba Lubniewski thailand
title
Bangkok street games
His short fashion film Risky Dancing won "The best art direction" award in Mercedes-Benz Bokeh South Africa International Fashion Film Festival 2015 and was also nominated for the best direction, best cinematograpy and grand prix.
Last 2 years he is living in Thailand, where he is working as a director of photography but also came back to his roots and passion which is analog photography. Thailand inspires him every day and he is looking for his own point of view. "Everywhere I see the frames" is the motto with which he defines his style and the search for his shots.
As a filmmaker, he often makes a series of photography to tell some bigger visual story with them.
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entry description
This series was shot at one of Bangkok's busiest intersections. I wanted to find my original way to show this congestion, so characteristic of this crazy city. It's already been shown in a million ways so it's not so easy to find some fresh perspective. I think I succeeded in achieving my goal. I looked at this city with my old Nikon F3, shooting on Kodak Vision 3 film stock, and to deepen the multidimensionality and crazy density of this city, I used reflections that I placed right in front of the camera lens. This allowed me to show this world in a non-obvious way, also disturbing the impression of what is top, what is bottom, what is truth and what is reflection. At the same time, using these reflections, I multiplied the density of this intersection further intensifying the oniric impression of the crazy rush hour in this unusual city of the future.about the photographer
Kuba Lubniewski - born 13.10.78 in Warsaw, Poland. All his life he was interested on photography and film. The effect of these passions was passing the exams to the film school at hte cinematography departament in Polish Film School in Lodz. During the studies he was participating in many international workshops and seminaries and cooperatd with the Andrzej Wajda Film School. After the studies he started his career from music videos, shot about 40 of them, was awarded for a.o. best cinematography, best music video, best script. He's working as a Director of photography in commercials, music videos and fashion films. He's also working on his documentary projects, one of them - the documentary movie about surfing, "El Sueno" was awarded in BITFF 2014 in the "Culture and tradition" category and it was shown in official slection of "American Documentary Film Festival" in Palm springs.His short fashion film Risky Dancing won "The best art direction" award in Mercedes-Benz Bokeh South Africa International Fashion Film Festival 2015 and was also nominated for the best direction, best cinematograpy and grand prix.
Last 2 years he is living in Thailand, where he is working as a director of photography but also came back to his roots and passion which is analog photography. Thailand inspires him every day and he is looking for his own point of view. "Everywhere I see the frames" is the motto with which he defines his style and the search for his shots.
As a filmmaker, he often makes a series of photography to tell some bigger visual story with them.
back to gallery