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PRECIOUS BALANCE WALK

Award Winning Art Film 

”We are all water in the same Ocean.”
– Yoko Ono

6 Nordic Performance Artists invited to perform in and with water in The Sound/Öresund, Ribersborgs beach, Malmö, Sweden. Filmed in 4 days of August 2019. The intention of the film is to create an immediate sense of affinity with water, and to awake impulses and inspiration to explore the fact that our bodies are composed of water and that we live in a hydrosphere. And remind us of how precious water is, and that we need to protect water.

 

Directors: Felicia Konrad and Johan Haugen/I Still Live in Water

Performance Artists: Lisa Nyberg; Malmö/Sweden, Erik Högström; Malmö/Sweden,

Joakim Stampe, Gothenburg/Sweden, Meri Nikula; Torneo/Finland, Ignacio Péréz Pérez; Finland/Venezuela, Elena Lundquist Ortiz; Copenhagen/Denmark.

Cinematographer: Benjamin Zadig

Camera Assistants: Anna Åhlander, Linnea Sparén

Sound Design: David Gülich

Editor: Sascha Fülscher

Music: David Carlsson, Felicia Konrad, Mats Persson

(Bass: David Carlsson, Vocals Felicia Konrad)

Mentor. Film director Jenifer Malmqvist

Producers: I Still Live in Water/Tangram Film

 

With Support from the Nordic Culture Fund, Boost Helsingborg, Filmcentrum Syd,

Marint Kunskapscenter, Oh Boy cykel hotel

AWARDS

Best Experimental Film'; ARFF Paris Around Film International 2021, European Short Film Festival 2021, Gliff Golden Lemur Film Festival 2021 Portugal, Arrow International Film Festival 2022, Sweet Democrazy Film Award 2022, Bhutan International Short Film Festival 2022, Venus Community Awards 2022 Turkey, AIMAFF, Athens 2023, Frida Film Festival 2023 Mexico, Vegas Movies Awards 2023, Echonation Audio and Filmfestival 2023, Ireland,

Golden Giraffe International Film Festival 2023, France

Best Performing Art and Critics choice; Calcutta International Cult Film 2022

Best Dance or Poetic; Climaxfilmfest Critic Awards 2022 Spanien

Best Cinematography; Benjamin Zadig; Arrow International Film Festival 2022, Golden Wheat Awards 2022 Turkey, Vegas Movie Award 2023

Best Sound Editing, David Gülich, Arrow International Film Festival 2022 Frankrike

Best Sound Design; David Gülich, Paris Shorts Film Awards 2022

Best Arthouse Film; 8 & Halfilm Awards May 2022

Best Director: Golden Wheat Awards 2022 Turkey

Best Original Soundtrack: Fox Film International 2023, Italy

Honorable Mention: (winner) New York Tristate International Film Festival 2023, Best Experimental Your Way International Film Festival, Malta 2023

Special Award; Cinematographer Benjamin Zadig/Precious Balance Walk; Cinematic European Film Festival 2022 Moldavia

’Outstanding Achievement’; DIFF Durk International Film Festival 2021 Bhutan, Reels International Film Festival 2022 Indien

Nominated Arthouse Finalist at Stockholm Independent Film Festival 2021

Nominated finalist for Best Poetic at Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, London 2022, Magma Film Awards 2022 (Hawaii)

Selected; Prague International Indie Film Festival 2021, Serbest International Film Festival (SIFF) 2021, Water Docs 2021, Canada

Nov Nature & Culture - Poetry Film Festival 2021, Copenhagen, Denmark, Hollywood On The Tiber Film Awards 2021,

Flickfair International Film Festival 2022, Snow Leopard International Film Festival 2022, European Peace Film Festival 2022 Ukraine



Screenings of Precious Balance Walk
2021 6/9 Friis Frame, Panora Cinema, Malmö, Sweden
2021 6/10 Malmö Art Hall, Malmö, Sweden
2021 13/10 Nordic Labour Film Festival, Malmö, Sweden

Exhibitions
2021 2/10 - 7/11 Precious Balance Walk, arthouse/experimental film, at Gibca Extended (Gothenburg International Biennal for Contemporary Art), 
Tjörns Municipality, Sweden

WATCH THE FILM:

Precious Balance Walk

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Please get in touch if you have any questions!

I am happy to answer to you personally.

©2022 by Meri Nikula.

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