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Oct 31, 2019
1 min

I AM – my latest film

I AM challenges our preconceptions of diversity. It features four young performers – Andrew, Sandra, Steve and Awa – who prove one thing. We are all able to go beyond where others think we can. We all are. You are. I am. Written, Produced and Directed by Michal Dzierza dzierza.com Director of Photography Borja Mucientes borjamucientes.com Original Music Score by Olivier Depardon olivierdepardon.com Edited by Mike Lang Colour Grading by Priory Post Lighting by Shoot Blue F

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Michal Dzierza

Jun 7, 2017
1 min

Screen recording in iOS 11 for #mojo

One of the new iOS 11 features coming soon to iPads and iPhones is likely to be screen recording. Apple’s WWDC 17 keynote didn’t actually mention it, but many developers have already tweeted about the feature. Here’s a brief video overview of the new functionality: Right now, a few months before the system’s release, it’s impossible to judge how useful the feature will be, what its limitations might be, but as a mobile filmmaker and journalist I really look forward to it. An

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Crystal Palace Subway – my short NatGeo film

Michal Dzierza

Jan 18, 2016
1 min

Crystal Palace Subway – my short NatGeo film

Hidden underneath a busy south London street is a piece of history rarely seen by Londoners. It’s called the Crystal Palace Subway and a group of local volunteers wants to reopen it to the public. Accessible mostly during London Open Days, the subway – or foot passage – forms part of a former railway station that once connected central London to the actual Crystal Palace which stood where the Crystal Palace park is now. The 150-year old Crystal Palace Subway – while not in

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The coolest place I’ve visited in a while

Michal Dzierza

May 21, 2015
2 min

The coolest place I’ve visited in a while

I was surprised how expensive Mr Toppers in Tottenham Court Road has become. I haven’t been to a barber since I decided to cut my own hair. Or what remains of it. At Fred’s barber shop in Dubuque, Iowa, it’s $11 for adults and $10 for seniors and children. Cheaper than Mr Toppers. And probably more charming too. I came across Fred’s shop while at the Julien Dubuque Film Festival where a film I directed had its premiere. I was walking around Dubuque trying to get over my jetl

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Michal Dzierza

Feb 11, 2015
2 min

X-ray Audio – illegal music on the bone

We copy legally available music illegally all the time and think nothing of it. But things were different some 60-70 years ago in Soviet Russia where the term ‘legally available music’ referred to music that wasn’t prohibited by the state censor. And a lot of it was. Back then those who copied music didn’t do it because they were too stingy to splash out on the latest Ella Fitzgerald or Elvis Presley record. No. They simply didn’t have access to those records. Some music was

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Michal Dzierza

Jan 5, 2015
1 min

The Aegean – an iPhone 6 film

Towards the end of 2014 I travelled several times across the mind-blowingly stunning Aegean Sea between Athens and the Cycladic Islands. Each time I filmed some footage using just my iPhone 6, hoping to be able to edit it into something meaningful later. I had other video gear on me, but wanted to see how the iPhone will cope with the conditions. And cope it did. Suffice to say, no tripod was used (I tried my gorilla pod a couple of times, but each time the strong winds won)

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Michal Dzierza

Nov 28, 2014
2 min

If you’re curious, you’ll love this

I think I was 11 or 12 when I sent my first letter to a local TV station to ask them if I can come in one day and see the studios and how they make live shows. To my surprise, they replied and invited me the following Saturday. I was dying of excitement and curiosity – all those secrets were about to be revealed. The same happened when I wrote to a local radio station a few months later. Radio fired up my imagination even more and I wanted to know how all that magic happened

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Creative types: Rob Lowe aka Supermundane

Michal Dzierza

Oct 7, 2014
1 min

Creative types: Rob Lowe aka Supermundane

I first met Rob several years ago and already back then he was a kind of a cult figure. Drawing funny characters, creating simple, but beautiful visual treats, using curved lines and lots of imagination. Since then he’s started his own studio and became a successful artist creating a wide range of pieces: from museum installations to awesome Nutella jar designs, to visual identification for brands and businesses. He’s had many exhibitions and his south London studio – packed

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Michal Dzierza

Oct 1, 2014
2 min

Dear London, will you dance for me?

I recently shot a music video for a British-Norwegian band, Casa Murilo. Not my first venture into the music video world, but definitely my first where I was in total control of the project. I loved the track (called ‘Drive’) and I’ve managed to convince them to ditch their original idea of shooting a lyric video. We’ve decided to produce something without the band, without even any specific actors, but with lots of movement. I tried to build a narrative by constantly switch

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Michal Dzierza

Sep 2, 2014
1 min

Awe-inspiring women: Tammy Parlour

I met Tammy a few years ago when she commissioned me to take some pictures for her site. That’s when I discovered the fascinating world of hapkido, a Korean martial art, which Tammy has been practising for over 30 years now. Since then we’ve worked together on a video for Women’s Sport Trust, which Tammy co-founded last year and which has gained an incredible momentum and backing from lots of prominent supporters. What I didn’t know until recently, was Tammy’s back story whi

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Michal Dzierza

Jun 12, 2014
1 min

Like a bird….

I love unexpected side projects. This one wasn’t even planned. I was driving to Beachy Head last Sunday when I spotted a bunch of paragliders on the side of a hill somewhere in rural East Sussex. I saw a farmer on a field nearby, asked him if it was ok to use his field to film for a bit and spent maybe 20 minutes trying to capture the beauty of paragliding. As this wasn’t pre-planned, I didn’t have a wide variety of equipment on me. Just my camera, one zoom lens and a tripod

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Michal Dzierza

May 22, 2014
1 min

Almost summer

Not sure why, but I completely forgot to post it earlier. Filmed a couple of weeks ago in Richmond. See more of my videos here. #slomo #slowmotion #video

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Michal Dzierza

Feb 17, 2014
1 min

What’s B-roll?

I was filming a series of tutorials over the weekend and one of the models we worked with asked at one stage: “Guys, you keep talking about ‘B-roll’. What is B-roll?” I gave her some convoluted answer that made a distinction between your main footage and secondary footage or something like that. But this morning I came across this great video on News Shooter that would’ve explained the notion much more succinctly. Slavik Boyechko from Alaska Public Media shoots a short docum

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Michal Dzierza

Feb 7, 2014
1 min

Creative types

Recently I met a wonderful – and wonderfully talented – man called Dave Walker. Dave draws cute (I hope he doesn’t mind the word ‘cute’) and funny cartoons. And he’s wildly popular. He focuses on two subjects: bicycles and church. Both of which have lots of fans. Dave works in a small studio/office in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, with a beautiful and calming view on the Thames Estuary. I wrote more about the video and Dave on Meehow, but this is the latest instalment in my occasio

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Michal Dzierza

Nov 17, 2013
1 min

Borough Market and my old iPhone 4S

Shock, horror, a legacy iPhone. Yes, and it’s coping well, thank you very much. I wanted to film something casual with my DSLR yesterday, and ended up at the revamped Borough Market. I admit: the German bratwurst with sauerkraut (20 minutes in the queue) and the raspberry and white chocolate brownie (5 minutes) sapped my energy and the crowds didn’t help either. I was still determined to film something somewhere though. The autumnal colours at the market were simply too gorg

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Michal Dzierza

May 9, 2013
1 min

London 1927

Everybody has been sharing this video today – and once you watch it, you’ll know why. It shows London circa 1927 through the eyes of one Claude Friese-Greene. As the description that came with the video explains, this is “incredible colour footage of 1920s London shot by an early British pioneer of film named Claude Frisse-Greene, who made a series of travelogues using the colour process his father William – a noted cinematographer – was experimenting with. It’s like a beaut

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Michal Dzierza

May 3, 2013
1 min

Something for the weekend – Screengrab by Willie Witte

Timelapse videos are becoming omnipresent and a bit repetitive. This is not a time lapse video. Not quite sure what to call this genre. Vimeo user Willie Witte uploaded this video called “Screengrab”, illustrating an experimental technique which combines video footage with screengrabs and prints. Within a few days the video was picked up by sites like Gizmodo and Boing-Boing. Willie said: “I’m testing an experimental process of printing out still frames from videos and using

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Michal Dzierza

Feb 13, 2013
1 min

Say no to vertical videos

Need I say more? #verticalvideo #video

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Michal Dzierza

Sep 24, 2012
1 min

Paris vs New York

Simple is beautiful. But sometimes to make something simple you need to put a lot of effort in. This lovely animation by Tony Miotto I found on Vimeo shows – in a simple, yet, quite time-consuming (for the creator, that is) way – the differences between Paris and New York. Why? No idea. (Well, it says at the end it’s based on a book by Vahram Muratyan which I just googled and it looks awesome too.) What a fabulous little video… #NewYork #video #tonymiotto #vimeo #paris

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Michal Dzierza

Apr 2, 2012
1 min

A photographer’s journey – Paul Clarke

As promised a few weeks ago, here is another inspirational story on how to become a successful photographer. If you are fascinated by photography and would like to turn pro – but don’t know how – Paul Clarke has a few words of encouragement for you. He features in today’s episode of my “A photographers journey” mini-series. Paul told me his story and explained how he became a successful and respected event (but not only) photographer. He’d worked on somebody else’s images b

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