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GIADA D.

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE!

About Me

***** (Writer/Producer/Director/Cinematographer/Perfomer) Some of my videos and films: ************************************************************ **************** I've been making films, music videos, documentaries and visuals since graduating from St. Martin's College of Art in Fine Art : Film & Video in 1999. I lived another life as a character on a German Soap Opera. I write songs: lyrics, melodies & beats. I write for NIGHT Magazine. I produce and perform in site and theme-specific multi-media experiments. I am driven to catalyse wonder. For me, creation always starts with a concept and the medium is guided by the idea.

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My Interests

I LOVE MY LOMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These are some of my best shots!"Turn on with me" by GIADA&FELIX.. width="425" height="350" ..

I'd like to meet:

Curators, Art Comissioners, Music, Comics and DVD Distributors, Publishers. Brand sponsors.People who want to collaborate... People who innovate... People who create... Enlightened beings... Yogis, Icons, Aliens, Fairies...Nick Bantock, Neil Gaiman, Jeff Koons, Brian Eno, Richard Branson, Deepak Chopra, The Dalai Lama, Tony Robbins, Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper,David La Chapelle, Matthew Barney, Bill Viola, Felix Dennis, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Courtney Love, Spike Jonze, Sofia Coppola, Wes Anderson, Miranda July, Pierre et Gilles.

Music:

Checkout: Kitsch Palace and GiGi Von G "Das Model" TRAID sponsored fashion event to raise funds for the Sudan Appeal 2004. Archive footage courtesy of Anton Perich Archives..."Just B" Nike-supported promo for Anti-Bullying Campaign created by GIADA "Save your battles for the dancefloor". "Just B" documentary and promo: Featuring top UK B-girls at the first ever world B-Girl champs in Berlin 2004. "Just B" original song written and produced by Paul "Groucho" Smykle & GIADA. Performed by Ayak, Nadine Atalanta, Miss T... ***** "MAB-PURE" (I was the Cinematographer and a Producer on this one!)

Movies:

GIADA D.GIADA has been tagged a "cool-hunter", "an anomaly" and a "navigatrix". Filmmaker, performance artist...creative.In 1996 Giada landed a lead role on Germany's longest running and most popular Soap Opera, Lindenstrasse. Giada learnt to speak German for the role of party girl "Patricia" and appeared regularly until 2003. Her directing debut was a short documentary exploring religions and what they all had in common, whilst in her first year at St.Martin's College of Art in 1996. Next was a collaboration with Laura Jennings on short film "She, I" which earned her an honourable mention at the European Short Film Festival. Later projects include "Self-Portrait" which was screened at London's Portobello Film Festival and "White Rooms," a collaborative multi-media project between Giada, Gabriel Prokofiev and Laura Jennings commissioned and sponsored by Sonic Arts at The Institute of Contemporary Art, London. She graduated from Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design in 1999 with a BAHons in Fine Art/Film&Video. Her first collaboration with composer Nick Lloyd Webber was on her Central St. Martin's graduation film "Post." Written, produced and directed by Giada and starring Natalia Fitzmaurice, "Post" was well received and invited to screen at international film festivals. In 2000 Giada founded Little Wonder Productions as an umbrella company for her creative endeavours in both film and live multi-media events/parties. Giada curated and hosted monthly little wonder short film & music video nights at the GE Club that grew into curating, promoting and hosting large multi-media events at The Great Eastern Hotel called Electric Stew. In 2000 Giada collaborated with graffitti artist Jina Rox to design and launch a limited edition label of customised vintage and denim pieces; presenting theatrically staged shows at Mei Hui Liu's Secret Underground Fashion Parties. In 2000 Giada wrote her first feature screenplay and took it to cannes where she wrote a diary-style indie filmmaker's guide to the Cannes Film Festival that was published in NIGHT Magazine, she is since a regular contributor. In 2001, Giada directed the award winning short film "mon amour mon parapluie", on which Nick Lloyd Webber composed the score and did the sound design...it also featured cameos from cult authors Douglas Coupland and William Gibson who improvised their lines as philosophers. Nick and Giada were invited to the worldwide short film festival in 2002, to host a panel on film/music collaborations. Between 2001-2003 Giada was the personal assistant to writer, director, producer Jeremy Wooding (Peepshow, Derren Brown Mind Control) and also filmed the process from concept to premiere of his first feature film "Bollywood Queen". In 2003 after 7 years on the German Soap Opera& film festival circuit, Giada stepped back and went underground and began a screenplay adaptation of a Douglas Coupland novel. During this time she also began writing songs, singing, making beats and videos for those songs. In 2004 Giada conceived an anti-bullying campaign aimed at teenage girls and produced, shot and directed a Nike viral promo and a documentary on U.K All Star B-girl Crew "Outbreak" in the build up to and at the first worldwide B-girl Championships in Berlin. In 2004 Giada founded, produced and directed Kitsch Palace as a live multi-media party performance experiment. NIGHT Magazine allowed Giada to explore and incorporate Anton Perich's archive films into live performances and videos; including films of icons such as Andy Warhol, Mohammed Ali, Salvador Dali, Candy Darling, Grace Jones, Taylor Mead and Jerry Hall.. Those experiments and shows resulted in a recorded catalogue of original songs "Some like it kitsch", recorded re-imagined covers "Welcome to The Kitsch Palace.." and a catalogue of visuals and music videos. A limited edition 4 track EP was released through Banana Castle Records, White label releases on PopWhiteLabel and featured vocals on 12"vinyl compilation "Leibesgrusse aus Ost Berlin" ( Exil-Systems Records). In 2005 Giada was a creative & director with Real Creatives Worldwide, writing and developing ad campaigns, viral videos, creative branding concepts and strategies. In 2006 Giada won "PSP Amazeme London" a playstation and www.showstudio.com sponsored nationwide creative competition, resulting in a mentorship with Rough Trade founder Geoff Travis. In 2006 Giada directed viral campaigns, music videos and fashion promos and launched a channel on www.youtube.com/littlewonderfilms In 2007 Giada was commissioned by The Third Millenium Foundation to create a performance piece and visuals on the theme of Tolerance for the launch of The Ship of Tolerance designed by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, at the opening of The Venice Biennale d'Arte.Filmography: 2008 Spirit of Tolerance- Short documentary & music video*** 2008 Rodnik- Live @The Hospital 2008 Tea with Johnny Blue Eyes- Performances and interviews 2008 UK Vogue Ball @Trannyshack- Performances and interviews*** 2007 UK Air Guitar Championships- Performances and interviews*** 2007 Pietro Ruffo- Short documentary 2007 I can be so many people- Short film*** 2006 Turn on with me- Fashion promo/music video*** 2006 Duende- Short film*** 2006 Yoav- Live @Monkey Chews*** 2006 GIADA @ The GE Hotel- Anton Perich Film 2006 Bboy- short documentary& interviews www.bboythegame.com*** 2005 Kashpoint Re-birthday @Koko- performances and backstage*** 2005 MAB- Music video*** 2005 Swetbox- Music video*** 2004 Kashpoint- Battle of The Boutiques @Heaven- catwalk and backstage*** 2004 Kitsch Palace- Music videos*** 2004 GiGi Von G- Music videos, party and backstage action*** 2004 Just B- Documentary and promo/music video*** 2003 Archangel- Music video*** 2003 The Making of a Bollywood Queen- Feature documentary*** 2002 Patrick Wolf- Live @Mei Hui Liu/Victim Fashion Show 2001 Vanessa Galvin/Flawless- Fashion promo*** 2001 Noel Stewart- Fashion promo*** 2001 Mon Amour Mon Parapluie- Multi-award winning short film*** 2000 Gloss- Music video*** 2000 Theredhand.com- Documentary/fashion promo*** 1999 Post- Short film*** 1999 Self-Portrait- Short film*** 1998 White Rooms- Video/Sound art collaboration and short film*** 1998 The Lanterna Magika- interviews*** 1998 Czech Mate- Short film*** 1997 She, I- Short film*** 1996 Religion?- Short Documentary************************************************* ************* "mon amour mon parapluie" went on to inspire a series of paintings by Canadian artist David WilsonMY LOVER, MY UMBRELLA Canada - short - 35mm Screenplay: T. Hungerford Director: Giada DobrzenskaOne of my favorite shorts was MY LOVER, MY UMBRELLA - about a woman who loses her umbrella one day and really misses it. A weird little movie, very surreal... but still very involving. The darned thing is in French, but the story is told visually so language doesn't matter. She goes into a cafe where everyone is debating philosophy... I thought this was going to be another one of those pretentious short films. Just when the I had reached my breaking point for philosophical subtitles, she leaves the cafe... but can't find her umbrella. Some other customer in the cafe has taken it! She gets drenched walking home from the cafe. Every where she goes, it is pouring rain... rain drips through the ceiling of her house and she has buckets all over the place. She really needs that umbrella! When she goes outside in the rain, everyone around her carries an umbrella... does one of them have her umbrella's distinctive handle? We are on the lookout for her missing umbrella... just as she is! When she passes a dumpster with the skeleton of an umbrella protruding from it, we think "There it is! Look in the dumpster!" The story surrounds her with umbrellas which might be hers. She is a woman who has lost her lover in the city of romance... well, a woman who has lost her umbrella in a city of rain. The woman eventually finds her umbrella... in the hands of another woman! When a cat fight erupts over the umbrella, we completely understand (even though it would be silly if we were looking at the incident as OUTSIDERS). We would fight for the umbrella, too. We know how important that umbrella is to her, WE have been searching for it the whole darned movie, too! She finally regains her umbrella, and they live happily ever after. I loved how the movie made fun of pretentious films by using silly symbolism. It was beautiful to look at, too! Lots of reflective puddles and great B&W cinematography. -William C Martell Raindance Film Festival**************************************************** **************So much effort for so slight an endeavour. I'm not knocking it; I only wish Mon Amour Mon Parapluie were longer. The short film looks terrific with crisp, superbly framed black and white photography-a waterlogged waif whose world crumbles after she loses her umbrella-and confident production values, including music and set design. It's largely wordless in a Euro-minimalist kind of way, and shot through with pleasant ambiguity. The minimalism is a problem, though, since it requires generous time and space to be effective, a difficult task for a 10-minute film regardless of its poetic aims. But see it anyway, if only to be impressed with its overall loveliness, and if you've got lots of money, give it to director Giada Dobrzenska and the crew so they can make a feature. -Barry Link, Vancouver Courier***************************************************** ********************************8"One of the most stunning productions of any length to be made in Vancouver this year."- David Spaner, The Province

Television:

LINDENSTRASSE! Ugly Betty, Skins, Gilligan's Island, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Jem and The Holograms, Punky Brewster, Degrassi Junior High.Below is a segment that I Produced, for an award-winning Channel 4 tv series called "Derren Brown: Mind Control". ********************************

Books:

Douglas Coupland, William Gibson, Neil Gaiman, Nick Bantock, Jeff Noon..... Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Magus, The Power of Now

Heroes:

The Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Eckhart Tolle, Bob Marley, Albert Einstein, Sally Bowles, Isadora Duncan, Mata Hari, Agnes Bernelle, Martha Graham, Anna Pavlova, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Audrey Hepburn, Joan of Arc, Andy Warhol, Anton Perich, Cindy Sherman, Pierre et Gilles, Douglas Coupland, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, David Bowie, Madonna andMany more amazing and inspiring people worth mentioning but too little time to write them all down."Little wonder"..

My Blog

one giant leap- what about me?

I saw a short clip from the new one giant leap movie today and it looks really great.I also had a moment during it...listening to a man speak on a "what about me" theory and i had an epiphany...a par...
Posted by GIADA D. on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:14:00 PST

I LOVE Emily the Strange

for more info checkout www.emilystrange.comSHE ROCKS MY imagination and will probabaly rock yours tooi want to write songs for her...and i want her to meet my friend GiGi von G...for a bit of Goth-Kit...
Posted by GIADA D. on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:35:00 PST

Lazy Questioning Poetry

  This city London... Does something wierd to me Something about it's energy At first it lifted me higher then I've ever been That it dropped me down and trampled on my dreams Some of the best p...
Posted by GIADA D. on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:05:00 PST

Bday Bonanza "BE" @Proud Gallery

So fun really so much fun! My favourite DJ De Vries hit the decks playing out some superfine rare mashups...trippy space rock...avante-kitsch...post modern irony...early 90s cheeze and grooves... and...
Posted by GIADA D. on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:38:00 PST

The Venice Biennale

So talk about wish fulfillment... One of my life goals has been to go to the Venice Biennale as an artist... And now that dream is close to coming true. GiGi and The Kitsch Palace Krew will be perfor...
Posted by GIADA D. on Mon, 14 May 2007 09:25:00 PST

GIADA's first blog: Little Wonder

Well I am no stranger to blogging now... I have a blog up on www.myspace.com/gigivongigolo and another one on www.myspace.com/kitschpalace. I then went and tried to create some more official blogs to...
Posted by GIADA D. on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:46:00 PST