IIIEIIIE is a multidisciplinary studio redefining content creation through 2D, 3D and stop motion animation, filmaking, motion graphics, title design, video mapping, vj and live visual art. We maintain an innovative fresh stance through our collaborations with various creative partners across all mediums, ensuring unique work for our clients. The audio division blutone offers timeless, epic, emotive music - the perfect combination: music and visuals
AD PACEM – Projection Mapping Mural Collaboration
Internationally renowned South African artists Inka Kendzia and Faith XLVII presented their new collaborative projection-mapped mural in Cincinnati during the Blink Light Festival.
Faith’s mural, thematically based on Eirene, the Greek goddess of peace, highlights the importance of actively working towards a society that functions on open communication and inclusion.
The intricate projection art is carefully constructed to interact within the artwork, layering a narrative alluding to borders, immigration, freedom of movement, peaceful protest, government oppression and the strength of the human spirit in overcoming these challenges.
The symbolic use of the flag accentuates the power of non-violent protest and negotiation in the pursuit of peace. The project invites the viewer to connect with their humanity and to see themselves as a part of the whole; to feel an interconnectedness between humans and nature, and the fluidity of geographic understandings of place and home.
Music by Stellamare
By inka on May 21, 2020
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AD PACEM – Projection Mapping Mural Collaboration
Internationally renowned South African artists Inka Kendzia and Faith XLVII presented their new collaborative projection-mapped mural in Cincinnati during the Blink Light Festival.
Faith’s mural, thematically based on Eirene, the Greek goddess of peace, highlights the importance of actively working towards a society that functions on open communication and inclusion.
The intricate projection art is carefully constructed to interact within the artwork, layering a narrative alluding to borders, immigration, freedom of movement, peaceful protest, government oppression and the strength of the human spirit in overcoming these challenges.
The symbolic use of the flag accentuates the power of non-violent protest and negotiation in the pursuit of peace. The project invites the viewer to connect with their humanity and to see themselves as a part of the whole; to feel an interconnectedness between humans and nature, and the fluidity of geographic understandings of place and home.
Music by Stellamare
By inka
on May 21, 2020
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AURUM at DESIGN INDABA 2019
AURUM is a theatrical performance piece created by Inka Kendzia and Faith XLVII.
A multi-disciplinary project coalescing videography and dance into a live immersive installation.
The layered piece weaves together various narratives with overarching themes including immigration, borders, protest, government oppression and the strength of the human spirit to overcome these challenges. The symbolic use of the flag further explores notions of patriotism / nationalism / surrender / compliance / negotiation and ultimately peace.
The inaugural performance took place in Berlin and was Performed by Manthe Ribane, during the opening of the Urban Nation Museum in 2017.
For The Design Indaba Conference in South Africa in 2019, Aurum was performed by PURE.
Music by Stellamara
stellamara.com/
Video by Inka Kendzia
With footage by Zane Meyer of Chop 'em Down Films
Special thanks to Mr Sakitumi, Babalwa Tom and Ellena Lourens
By inka
on June 15, 2019
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MARAMZA – uWrongu feat BONJ MPANZA
“UWrongu” is an intimate music video stylistically influenced by Afro Futurism. Distortions and glitches are used to represent the turmoil of emotions felt, the complexity of love, anger, loss and betrayal. The imagery distorts to reveal the storm that is whirling within Bonj, the mess that was created in her head, her emotions overflowing, spilling over the edges of the usual cinema crop. All this while Bonj looks directly at camera and speaks straight to the heart of the viewer.
The video is a collaboration between Inka Kendzia and Sara CF de Gouveia and the track is by Bonj Mpanza and DJ Maramza. Inka loves playing with projections and video mapping, this collaboration was a perfect mix between this projection art and the fantastic filmic and documentary approach and great eye of Sara’s
Directors: Sara Gouveia (Lionfish Productions) & Inka Kendzia
Animation Director & Projection artist: Inka Kendzia
Cinematographers: Sara Gouveia, Anton Scholtz and Lucy Hazard
Camera and Lighting Assistants: Julia Ramsay and Ellena Lourens
Make-up & Wardrobe: Soraya Guedes
Editing: Inka Kendzia & Sara Gouveia
Colour grade : Sara Gouveia
Visual effects: Inka Kendzia
By inka
on April 16, 2018
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Maramza - uWrongu feat Bonj Mpanza from Inka Kendzia on Vimeo.
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ZAKI IBRAHIM SHOWVISUALS FOR DESIGN INDABA
Working with the powerful ZAKI IBRAHIM on her visuals for her set at the DESIGN INDABA 2018 was such a blessed experience. We played with projection on Origami and tessellated paper sculptures made by GEN and of course projection art onto her herself. Her music speaks of the connectedness of beings, of us all being planets emitting frequencies and I visualized this for her... the timeline was quite crazy on this... filming for 2 days and then editing for 4 to have all the tracks ready for the show, 6 of which were pre-edited and the remaining mixed live with the prepared clips and original content. Her recently released album THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANETS is receiving rave revues and was such an incredible inspiration .... Thank you Zaki
By inka
on April 16, 2018
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ZAKI IBRAHIM - ORBIT from Inka Kendzia on Vimeo.
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Mysterium Tremendum
Mysterium Tremendum is the latest immersive collaboration between Faith XLVII and Inka Kendzia created at the Juxtapoz magazine Clubhouse during Art Basel Miami.
Combining old and new technologies these South African enchantresses envelop us in a carefully constructed inner sanctum of astronomy and journey us through the mystical notion of the infinite within. In a time of intense political and cultural apprehension this work arouses a mysterious and sublime knowing which is undoubtedly needed for a shift in the global realpolitik.
Music by Mr Sakitumi
Muse the amazing Jessica Smith
Special Thanks to Lucy Hazard for filming and being
By inka
on January 10, 2018
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THE BEATLES – EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
I was beyond honoured to be directing and creating the motion design for this fantastic documentary focusing on the Touring Years of this band that I admire for their music and their incredible impact on not just musical history. It was an absolute pleasure to attend the worldwide premiere in London. Once I can show some of the motion design I will update this post and in the meantime I will just keep beaming with joy and listening to all their songs again and again
By inka
on October 12, 2016
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NEXT AFRICA
Commissioned by the INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE ROTTERDAM in the context of IABR-2016-THE NEXT ECONOMY
By inka
on April 12, 2016
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NEXT AFRICA from thegrrrl on Vimeo.
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Faith47 – Aqua Regalia – projection mapping
A projection mapping sequence created as a collaboration between inka kendzia ( the grrrl) and faith47.
Faith created a shrine-like installation made out of found objects, the mapping sequence was then projected on top of this shrine structure.
The projection was created specifically for the opening night of Faith's Aqua Regalia exhibition in New York at the Jonathan Levine gallery.
artist - faith47
animation and mapping - inka kendzia | the grrrl
music - fletcher beadon - fletcher in dub
filmed -zane meyer of chopemdownfilms
By inka
on December 7, 2015
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Rapsputin
Our friends at OFyt gave us complete creative freedom for their fun rebranding of Romanoff Vodka. We love this! Noël and I played around with video mapping and stop motion as hand made looking as possible. Fun for the Mad Monk Rapper Rapsputin or rather Rasputin, Patron Saint of Romanoff Vodka. We spent one evening filming our friends rapping and dancing with props and rear projected video. super fun. Thank you all round
By inka
on May 22, 2015
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SAE – i love what i do
SAE approached us for a logo animation incorporating their "i love what i do" concept and call to study at SAE here in cape town. Together with Simone and Jess, the great paper artists and co-directors, we developed this stop motion animation and added one of Mr Sakitumi's track for added fun.
By inka
on February 25, 2015
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SAE - i love what i do from meme on Vimeo.
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Mr Sakitumi & The Grrrl Sónar2014 Cape Town LIVE
We had the great opportunity to play at the Sónar Cape Town Festival. Thanks to Golden Circle for the great beaming lights and super booming sound, Seed Experiences for bringing Sónar to Cape Town and Sónar Festival for existing : )
Big Shout out to all the people who came to our show, we had great fun
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By inka
on January 25, 2015
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Mr Sakitumi & The Grrrl Sónar2014 Cape Town LIVE from meme on Vimeo.
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The Net Benefit
The super people at Derrick together with SASSI and MSC gave us the freedom to direct and create this short informative film. It is all about how to save the fish we have left in the ocean and become a more conscious consumer... let's do it! The music is of course by our audio division blutone. Massive thanks to Sim and Jess who built all the miniature paper-models meticulously - big respect for dexterous digits
By inka
on August 12, 2014
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Qrack It
Together with Metaphoria we developed this fun Qrackit character which takes you through the journey of this teens only global reality game. Teens solve real life problems and these winning solutions can find a real world implementation.... it was an absolute honour to be involved in something with such world changing potential. Go teens go : )
By inka
on July 12, 2014
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MR+GRRRL
This track features on Mr Sakitumi's latest EP release 'Sweet & Sour Vol.2' (2014)
we shot this footage ourselves, styled by crystal birch (with the assistance of jade ayla rea & louise steytler)
music video edited and effected by the grrrl.
it also features the grrrl on vocals.
mix and mastered by simon ' fuzzy' ratcliffe (sound and motion studios)
you can download this track along with the full ep for free from my soundcloud page:
soundcloud.com/mrsakitumi
mrsakitumiandthegrrrl.com
therealcrystalbirch.com
soundandmotion.co.za
By inka
on July 4, 2014
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Open Up – Mercedes Benz
Mr Sakitumi & The Grrrl were invited to be inspired by the sights and sounds while driving the Mercedes E 500 convertible with the top down to create a musicvideo for MB life - the online magazine
We loved every moment!
The super short turn around time - delivery of a 3minute 33seconds video 3 days after the shoot - made for vj effects in the online process rather than using AFX . Thank you to the amazing team that made this all possible
Dylan Culhane - Director
Carol - Editor (Bring back choirboy/Priest)
Crystal birch - Styling
By inka
on February 27, 2014
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Patrick Dempsey Racing Le Mans
I am hooked on racing thanks to this fantastic documentary on Patrick Dempsey and his race to Le Mans. It was a fun challenge designing all the motion graphics for this, keeping it cinematic and sporty at the same time. It is airing on the Velocity Discovery channel right now (Aug/Sept 2013)
By inka
on August 27, 2013
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Living Apart. Entwined
Living Apart Entwined is painted on the corner of Williams and Sussex st, Woodstock.
An area in Cape Town that has been witness to recent gentrification projects.
It speaks of the relationship between our seperate identities and our deep commonalities.
Directed and shot by Makhulu.
2012
Artwork by Faith47
Music by Gary Morris
Animation by Inka Kendzia
By inka
on February 11, 2013
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Living Apart . Entwined from FAITH47 on Vimeo.
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has your food had fun?
The great Noël and the Grrrl collaborate as PONYPANDA. We played with playdough, turned the turntables and filmed the fun all in the name of food for thought: HAS YOUR FOOD HAD FUN?
The phonotrope / zoetrope inspiration to create this installation for 'THE INSPIRATION TABLES' at the Toffie Festival in Cape Town
The music is FUNKY STRUT by Mr Sakitumi
The Grrrl is an idealistic dreamer and Noël likes to dream with her. We grateful to be able to improve and work with our passion for visual expression and to use our visual art to bring emotion onto dance floors, telling stories through the play of light.
By inka
on February 10, 2013
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has your food had fun from meme on Vimeo.
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Obrigado photo shoot – Behind the scenes
mr sakitumi and the grrrl spent an afternoon in the sun with lulu gray, annie brookstone (obrigado magazine), russell, ninjalyn and of course andy lund taking snapshots for OBRIGADO... we are so excited to see the final pictures in print so very soon. Thank you to all involved, especially the great bmx tricksters who happened to be hanging out adding air to the fun. jungle jimmy enjoyed a day out
music: Mr Sakitumi - clockitumi
edit & FX : the grrrl
behind the scenes camera: ninjalyn
By inka
on November 6, 2012
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Obrigado - behind the scenes with Mr Sakitumi & the Grrrl from meme on Vimeo.
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The making of Jungle Jimmy
AN MK AWARDS NOMINATION FOR JUNGLE JIMMY
This is the behind the scenes fun we had bringing the Jungle Jimmy to life. It was hot... it was really really hot... Cape Town in a heat wave... always a good time to switch on lights and climb into an even hotter suit, but Tao performed brilliantly and kept his smile. The many characters had been waiting for months to boogie to the beat and now the bunnies got to hop about. As you can see by the credits, we are a small team, a family affair, no budget, just endless love, laughter and creativity... 3 lights, a fan and a garage
Credits:
Director - Inka Kendzia "The Grrrl"
Music - Sean Ou Tim "Mr Sakitumi"
Collaborator &Textile Artist - Bev Hodgen
Editor and FX - Inka Kendzia
DOP - Guy Hodgen
Jungle Jimmy - Tao Hodgen
By inka
on May 3, 2012
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The Making of Jungle Jimmy from meme on Vimeo.
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INTERNATIONAL TATTOO CONVENTION VISUALS
we are busy preparing visuals for the SIX tattoo convention, where we be vision mixing and running the stage events together with african dope records supplying fabulous beats and pieces. we are also putting together an interactive artpiece in collaboration with pixelproject, tatooting with a wii gun.... visit the event and partake in art and ink.
By inka
on January 21, 2009
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Here is a showcase of some of our local and international award winning work in animation and motion design.
Sean ou Tim is blutone - the audio division of meme. As an accomplished and celebrated musician and producer, Sean has written music and designed sound for numerous radio, television and cinema commercials, online games and live sound installations.
We create and perform visuals for live music events and installations. With these we travel the world over. Visit our website here.
We are visual architects and content creators for live events in the corporate and underground environment.
Things we do in our spare time.
