“Short Stories” is an immersive 360° video. You can move your mouse or finger to walk around in the room. The short films projected on the walls are the animated charcoal drawings: – Micro Evolution – The Bride – Ovolution Click here to...
“Lost Theatre” is an immersive 360° video. You can move your mouse or finger to walk around the place. The short film projected on the wall is the animated charcoal drawing “Sea Change”. The video has been recorded at the...
Breathing Bags are plastic bags with rubbish found on the streets, which inflate and explode with breathing movements and sounds. One-way plastic bags are so ubiquitous in the street scene that we no longer even notice them. By watching them explode, we become aware...
Inspired by the sonopoem S.A.D. of Ilaria Boffa, Maria Korporal’s video expresses the tensions between conflict and harmony of seasonal affective disorder.
Homage to Joseph Beuys. During a walk in the streets of Beuys’ city Düsseldorf, I photographed a piece of rubbish sitting on the asphalt. Later I anthropomorphised and animated it, using charcoal drawing. It changed into a spontaneously created microcosm....
The full version is now available as pay-per-view on www.visualcontainer.tv! In this video I try to show the human experience of loneliness and impotence during their „meetings“ in cyberspace. Even if the light image accurately depicts the person, eye contact is imp…
The very first kiss captured on film was between two naked women. It was recorded by Eadweard Muybridge in his remarkable studies of the human figure in motion in the 1880s. I have animated several of his photographic sequences in my video works, but The Kiss remains...
Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing of a male figure perfectly inscribed in a circle and square, known as the “Vitruvian Man”, illustrates what he believed to be a divine connection between the human form and the universe. Beloved for its beauty and symbolic...
Extreme weather events, floods, droughts and fractured lands: signals the Earth keeps sending us. They are not only environmental emergencies, but also calls to care for one another. My hope is that humanity will answer this call — protecting the fundamental rights of...
NEW: The project will be presented on February 4, 2025, at INSEL Film, INSELGALERIE Berlin, as part of the exhibition MeeresStern. The screening of all Korporal Zoo videos will begin at 19:30h and last approximately one hour. This will be followed by a discussion with...
Korporal Zoo X: “Reynard the Fox”. Video installation with 12 triangular canvases (digital prints with manual intervention), and a video projection playing with all elements. Reynard (Dutch: Reinaert; French: Renard; German: Reineke or Reinicke; Latin:...
The video above is a 3-minutes trailer*teaser. The whole video is more than 13 minutes long and has been shown in the events 17 Days Videos Series (USA), Lines in Between the Maze (Berlin), and in loop at the exhibitions “Under Another Roof” in IA&A at...
Maria Korporal’s contribution to the collective installation “Under the Same Roof” The video wall “Walkabout” is Maria Korporal’s contribution to the collective installation “Under the Same Roof”, created with artists Marina Buening, Kristien de Neve...
Korporal Labyrinth is a work in progress, an account of a visceral journey in different stadia, expressed in a series of short videos. The artist’s drawing of the labyrinth was the starting point for the project, together with a bunch of footage taken mainly from July...
Screenings: Mostra Strangloscope 2019, Mitte Media Festival, Lines in Between the Maze, Video Art Miden 2018, Maria Korporal: 6×5 video, MADATAC 2018 In May 2017, having to recover from an eye retina operation, I took long walks in Berlin, meditating about the...
The video has been created on a piece of “musique concrete” which deals with the theme of incommunicability. Composer Emiliano Pietrini (Globoscuro) constructed his music on a series of “nonsense” dialogues embraced by a carpet of sounds...
a video by Maria Korporal The video above is a short trailer! The complete video is 3:12 and is shown in festivals or upon request. Description: Turn a blind eye = Pretend not to notice ‘please, don’t turn a blind eye to what is happening’ (Oxford English...
NEW SCREENING on exhibition in Prague in May 2018! read more about the exhibition “Your eyes saw my golem; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” (Psalm 139 :16) The Jewish legend of the Golem, a clay puppet that can be...