Alexandre Klinke is a composer and media artist from Sao Paulo, Brazil, based in Vancouver, BC. With a background as a musician, as well as a videographer and video editor, his works encompass different fields such as media and installation art, music for film, sound design and performance. The division and sense of foreignness associated with the experience of immigration are often present in his pieces, where he seeks to find connections and patterns in seemingly unrelated events, juxtaposing audio and video material from different times and places.
His works in film and multimedia installation explore the perceptual and synesthetic effects of the relationship between sound and vision, using both analog (magnetic tape, super 8 film, VHS) and digital technologies. The juxtaposition of the warm and noisy characteristics of analog equipment with the hi-fi crispness and endless possibilities of the digital medium results in a variety of textures, applied in a way that suggests the ambiguous nature of perception and memory.
SELECTED WORKS
FILM/MULTIMEDIA
Video: Inland, 2020.
Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen (Curated by Grunt Gallery, Vancouver)
October 15th 2020 - April 15th 2021.
Multimedia Project: Playback Head, 2019
Multichannel A/V Installation presented at the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre at SFU Woodward’s (Vancouver), Sep 8-14, 2019.
Playback Head: Part I, presented at Fisura, Experimental Cinema & Video International Film Festival (Mexico City—Online Edition), 2020—2021.
COMPOSER (Selected Works)
Soundscape Composition: Atlântico—Pacífico, 2020
Presented at the outdoor broadcast event Touch at a Distance, (organized by Public Secrets) at Hadden Park, Vancouver, July 25th, 2020.
Public Sound Art: Sixteen Sine Waves, 2019
Presented at the event Sonologues 2019, Vancouver Public Library, July 8-12, 2019.
Presented at the Music & Sound Festival at SFU Woodward’s, April 12, 2019.
Soundscape Composition: Vento, 2019
Media Arts Committee (MAC) Commissioned Artist. Presented at the Vancouver Co-operative Radio on Jan 23rd, 2019.
Documentary: The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs, 2018 (dir: Bojan Bodruzic) – Additional Music
Best Canadian Documentary at VIFF 2018
Short Film: Lira’s Forest, 2017 (dir: Connor Jessup)
Documentary: Brasília: Life After Design, 2017 (dir: Bart Simpson)
Premiered at DOXA
Documentary: Piracaia, 2016 (dir: Tomaz Cavalieri and Renato Falzoni)
Feature Film: In Her Place, 2014 (dir: Albert Shin)
Premiered at TIFF in 2014 and nominated for 7 Canadian Screen Awards in 2015.
SOUND DESIGNER/ SOUND EDITOR
Short Film: Donny the Drone, 2017 (dir: Mackenzie Sheppard)
Short Film: Man In Phone, 2016 (dir: Mackenzie Sheppard)
Official selection at the Short Shorts Film Festival in Tokyo 2016 and winner of the Gold Screen Award at the Young Director Award event in Cannes 2016.
Documentary: Return to Reinchenbach, 2012 (dir: Maureen Kelleher)
Short Film: Itaka, 2012 (dir: Bojan Bodruzic) – Composer/Sound Designer
Playback Head - May 2020 Lugares - April 2016 In Her Place OST - September 2014 Checklist/Tempo EP - April 2014 Terreiro - February 2013 Loop Folklórico EP - March 2011