Es Fällt die nacht / Cae la noche

NIKA SON studied fine arts in Hamburg and has since worked as a musician, artist, film composer and DJ. Influenced by Musique Concrète and the outer space of electronic music, her compositions are constructed from modified and fragmented field recordings, interwoven with analogue synthesizers, broken rhythms, rare voice snippets and modulated tape. The sounds, of diverse origin, are translated into a highly unusual musical language, as if observing the audible. In March 2020, his debut album was released on the Belgian-British label Entr'acte. In addition to his solo project and various collaborations with artists, notably Helena Wittmann, he has regularly organised art and music events at the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg. Since 2019 he is part of the curatorial team of the Papiripar festival. www.nikason.de

HELENA WITTMANN is an artist and filmmaker based in Hamburg, Germany. After studying Spanish and media in Erlangen and Hamburg, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK) in 2014. Her first feature film DRIFT premiered at La Settimana della Critica at the Venice Film Festival in 2017, and like her short films, including ADA KALEH (2018), 21,3°C (2014) or WILDNIS (2013), it was shown internationally at various film festivals and exhibitions. Helena Wittmann often collaborates - for example with Nika Son in different contexts, or as a cinematographer for other filmmakers. She has been artistic research assistant at the HFBK in Hamburg and is currently a tutor at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia, Spain. www.helenawittmann.de