BIOGRAPHY
Arnim Friess for pixelbox ltd.
Lighting - Projection design - Digital media design
Arnim trained and worked as a photographer and audio-visual media designer in his native Germany, before moving to the UK to study Scenography, receiving an MA at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. He is founder member of digital content creator pixelbox ltd, which specialises in designing dynamic performance environments, blending media like lighting, slide and video projection, animation, film-making and graphic design. His lighting and projections have been seen not only in theatres around the world, but also in a zoo, a monastery, an abondened pub and deep down in a cave in the Forest of Dean. Performances in the UK, Canada, the USA, Ireland, India, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Denmark, have spanned diverse arts forms from theater to opera and ballet via puppetry, Indian dance, experimental music and children’s shows.
Recent designs include ‘Joe Guy’ for Theatre Fahodzi at Soho Theatre, ‘Looking for JJ’ for Pilot Theatre at the Unicorn, ‘One Night in November’, ‘Monged’, 'Puntila and his man Matti' and the ‘Mysteries’ for the Belgrade Theatre Coventry,'The Suicide' and 'An Inspector calls' at Theatr Clwyd, Kaos Theatre 'Mine' (Tour) and 'The White Album' at the Nottingham Playhouse. Past designs have been science-fiction opera ‘The Pitchshifter’ for leading Dutch contemporary music ensemble Insomnia, award winning ‘Rumblefish’, ’Road’ and ‘Lord of the Flies’ for Pilot Theatre, bricks-in-space spectacle ‘Life on Mars’ at Legolands worldwide, the appearance of hundreds of angels inside St Pauls Cathedral for the City of London Festival, ‘Amour’ for Oval Theatre London and the Dance-Centre Toronto, 'Moll Flanders', ‘Metropolis’ and ‘The Importance of being Earnest’ for Kaos Theatre, ‘Paradise’ for Birmingham Rep, ‘Angels in America’ at the Sheffield Crucible, ‘Oliver’ at the Liverpool Playhouse, Mozart’s ‘Mass in C-minor’ for the Birmingham Royal Ballett, Hanif Kureishi’s ‘My beautiful laundrette’ for Snap Theatre, ‘The Wall’, ‘King’ and Philipp Glass ‘Satyagraha’ for Midlands Arts Centre, Bryony Lavery’s ‘Shot through the heart’ amongst others for Pentabus Theatre, and ‘Hard Day’s Night’ for Hull Truck Theatre Company.
Arnim also works as a photographer and graphic designer, lives in Warwickshire with his wife Susanne, daughters Ella and Amelie, and an overly dramatic cat. He enjoys playing drums and experimental cooking for fearless friends.
www.pixelbox.ltd.uk
Press:
“A staggering high-impact opening - the combination of Arnim Friess' frantic post modern digital imagery ... makes the jaw drop.” The Stage on Pilot Theatre 'Rumblefish'
“Digital projection and live action are combined to quite brilliant effect ... triumphantly proves that they can be equal partners.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian on Pilot Theatre 'Rumblefish'
“Multimedia effects are the curse of so many productions, yet [this design] manages to use film projections subtly and stylishly to bring out different layers of Kureishi's story.”
London Evening Standard on Snap Theatre ‘My beautiful laundrette’
“Andy Graham's production has…great use of video (Design Arnim Friess), particularly to represent the confusion in Johnny's mind and the pull of his former racist mates.”
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, on Snap Theatre ‘My beautiful laundrette’ |
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