Wonderful news: I will be performing at Glastonbury Festival, U.K. 2024 at the Woodsies Area – Tree Stage!
I will do 2 live performances / video projections, together with ENTITY (Steve Everitt), who will produce the live soundscapes for the shows:
Wednesday 26th June 19:30 – 20:15 THE ART OF FLYING (acoustic set)
Thursday 27th June 11:30 – 12:10 PLANKTONIUM (full immersive set)
I am very honoured to be part of the largest Festival of contempary performing arts in the world.
Short film about “murmurations”: the mysterious flights of the Common Starling. It is still unknown how the thousands of birds are able to fly in such dense swarms without colliding. Every night the starlings gather at dusk to perform their stunning air show.
Because of the relatively warm winter of 2014/2015, the starlings stayed in the Netherlands instead of migrating southwards. This gave filmmaker Jan van IJken the opportunity to film one of the most spectacular and amazing natural phenomena on earth.
2015, HD Video, black&white, 06:52
The film has been screened at more than 50 international film festivals, art galleries, museums, etc. It was awarded “Best art film” at Pärnu Int. Documentary Film Festival, Estonia. The short 2 min version of the film was published online by National Geographic’s Short Film Showcase and was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick.
List of screenings & awards THE ART OF FLYING
Link to the photoseries The art of flying:
https://www.janvanijken.com/the-art-of-flying/
Photoseries about “murmurations”: the mysterious flights of the Common Starling. It is still unknown how the thousands of birds are able to fly in such dense swarms without colliding. Every night the starlings gather at dusk to perform their stunning air show.
Because of the relatively warm winter of 2014/2015, the starlings stayed in the Netherlands instead of migrating southwards. This gave filmmaker Jan van IJken the opportunity to film one of the most spectacular and amazing natural phenomena on earth.