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News about Nikola Tesla project

 

  • The filming continues: New York, Colorado Springs...

    • The filming for the "Tesla" project will continue in New York and Colorado Springs (June 2007). The project should be finished by the end of 2007.
     

  • Filming in New Zealand

    • The "Tesla" team was on New Zealand in Febuary 2007. What did we film and why? More when it's done... Another new thing is that Alistair Keddie, the Scotish landscape photographer and animator, author of the cartoon "Stribor's Forest" from our project "Croatian Tales of Long Ago" also joined the team! The new member of the crew is also Stuart Page, New Zealand director, cinematographer, photographer and video artist.
     

  • The first presentation of "Tesla" project

    • On Interliber, Zagreb major book fair, on Friday November 10th, we presented our project inspired with the scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla. The presentation was a part of the program of national quiz for the promotion of reading, organized by Zagreb Public Libraries and Croatian Center for Children Books. We presented what was done so far, together with some thoughts about Tesla by famous artists that we interviewed for our interactive film. This was the first public presentation of the project in Croatia.
     



  

  • Interviews with Terry Gilliam, Andy Serkis and Christopher Priest!

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    The team of the interactive film inspired by Nikola Tesla was in Frankfurt at the end of September 2006, to film interviews with Terry Gilliam and Andy Serkis. A week before the team was in London to film an interview with the British writer Christopher Priest.
     
    The interviews with Gilliam and Serkis were filmed at eDIT festival in Frankfurt. The festival is intended for film professionals, primarily in the field of special visual effects, and for the 9th time it united the VE elite from Europe and America. eDIT is famous for its relaxed and intimate atmosphere, where the attendants really get a chance to meet and communicate with the stars and famous masters. Both Gilliam and Serkis were honored with Special Achievement Award at this years eDIT festival, together with the legendary Ray Harryhausen, who is one of the greatest masters of special film effects of all times, and who did the VE in spectacles such as "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad", "Jason and the Argonauts" and "Clash of the Titans".
     
    Three years ago, at eDIT 2003 festival "Bulaja Publishing" presented its award-winning international project "Croatian Tales of Long Ago"!
    [Here you can see the trailef of the 2003. festival with Helena's interview...]
     

    Terry Gilliam & the film crew

    photo: Mare Milin

     
    On September 16th 2006 at Tate Modern Gallery in London we filmed an interview with Christopher Priest, author of the novel "The Prestige" where Tesla is a key episode character. The newest Christopher Nolan's film with David Bowie as Tesla is based on the book (coming out in October 2006).
     
    You will be able to hear some of the inspiring and - as expected - witty thoughts about Tesla that Gilliam, Serkis and Priest shared with us by mid 2007, when this complex film product with the working title "Mechanical Figures - 20.000 Cycles.Net" should be ready.

    If you wonder what's the connection between Gilliam, Serkis and Tesla, click here...
     

    Ch. Priest & the film crew, Tate Modern, London

    Christopher Priest and the film crew, Tate Modern, London
    photo: Mare Milin



 
 

  • Tesla's birthday - filming in Belgrade

    • On the 150th birth anniversary of Nikola Tesla (June 9-10, 2006) we were again filming in Belgrade.
     

    Laurie Anderson & Dana Budisavljevic

    photo: Mare Milin

     
    The reasons were a performance by conceptual artist Petar Grimani in Tesla's Museum, in hotel "Moskva" and on the streets of Belgrade, and meeting Laurie Anderson, who had a concert dedicated to Tesla in Belgrade, as well as Terry O'Reilly, the director of the opera Violet Fire that premiered at the National Theatre. We also filmed an interview with Dana Budisavljević, Croatian filmmaker and Nikola Tesla's grandniece.

 

  • Belgrade - Budapest - Zagreb

    • The team of the interactive film about the scientist Nikola Tesla was in Belgrade and Budapest on May 18-26. Among other things, in Belgrade we interviewed Terry O'Reilly, the director of a multimedia opera Violet Fire inspired by Tesla's life. The opera will premiere in Belgrade at the National Theater in July 2006, as a part of the celebration of Tesla's 150th birth anniversary.
     

    Terry O'Reilly, Zvonimir i Helena Bulaja

    photo: Mare Milin

     
    In Budapest we shot in the famous City Park (Varosliget) - the place where Tesla came to the idea of rotating magnetic field while he was watching the sunset and saying verses from Goethe's "Faust".
     

    Rade Serbedzija, Zagreb May 2006

    photo: Mare Milin

     
    After returning we were filming in Zagreb - we interviewed the famous actor Rade Šerbedžija and the magician M. G. Taylor.

     
     
     

  • More filming in New York, March 2006

    • On March 22nd the team of the interactive film about Nikola Tesla was in New York again, where we filmed an interview with the famous performance artist Marina Abramović. In 2004 Marina Abramović made a performance Tesla's Urn in Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade.
       

    Crew & Marina Abramovic, NYC March 2006

    photo: Mare Milin

     

  • Filming in New York, January 2006

    • On January 11-26th, 2006 a small team of our Nikola Tesla project was in New York City.

    Christian Biegai, Sabina Hahn, Laurie Anderson, Helena Bulaja, NYC Jan 2006

    Film crew at Bryant park, NYC Jan 2006

    photos: Mare Milin

     
    In the two weeks of intensive shooting we filmed about 10 interviews with acclaimed artists and creative people whom Tesla inspired (Laurie Anderson, Eric Orr, Douglas Rushkoff, Samantha Hunt, Matt Dilling, Craig Marin & Olga Felgemacher, Jamie Mereness, Joseph Kinney, Stephen Whitty), and most of the fictional materials for the film, with Josipa and Marijana Bronić, Sabina Hahn and Christian Biegai.
     

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