City One Minutes
Colombia - South Africa - Haïti - Argentina - Brazil - Jordan
2009 - 2013 / SD and HD video / each city portrait 24'00"
Commissioned by The One Minutes Foundation


From 2008 till 2010, and in 2013 again, I worked for the international video project City One Minutes: video portraits of cities in 24 minutes in which each minute represents one hour of the day. Together with local artists and filmmakers I realized City One Minutes in Medellín, Johannesburg, Port-au-Prince, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Amman. See pictures. In these cities I worked as coordinator, curator, director, filmer and editor. I also contributed with my own one minute videos to the portraits of Amsterdam (Netherlands), Beijing (China), Havana (Cuba) and Lisbon (Portugal). The video project with 200 City One Minutes had its premiere at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.

Medellín Videos by: El Squater, Diego Villada, Paula A. Rengifo (co-curator), Luis B. & Juan, Luis Palacios, Mauricio Robledo, Lenguïta Producciones, Lina Lopera, Carolina Ramos, Bryan Ruiz, Leo Catano, Andrés Valles, Carlos Alvarez, Catalina Rojas, Juan Fernando Ospina, Daniel Urrea & amigos, Jorge Rodriguez, Autarika, Julian Bedoya & amigos, Su Tomesen. Gracias: Centro Colombo Americano. Foto por Daniel Gil. Made possible through kind support of Mondriaan Fonds

Johannesburg Videos by: Anthea Galatis, Bianca Bothma, Cherice Whewell, Elliot Meekel, Gina Gibson, Jabulani Tshuma, Jesse Dullabh, Jurgen Meekel i.c.w. Kiki Doermann and Solam Mkhabela, Kitso Lelliott, Mbali Langa, Natalie Edwards, Neo Peterson, Senzo Shabangu, Su Tomesen. Ngiyabonga: Jurgen Meekel and Taku Kasela of WITS University and James French of The Bag Factory. Made possible through kind support of The Bag Factory.

Port-au-Prince Videos by: Les Atis Rezistans (Celeur, Cheby, Eugène André, Guyodo), Chantal Breukers, Damier Raymond, Flo McGarrell, Geraldine Le Carret, Groupe Media Alternatif (Gotson Pierre, Pieter Van Eecke, Plaisimond Beethoven), Su Tomesen. Merci: Pieter Van Eecke de Accès Media et Richard Morse de L'Oloffson hotel. Made possible through kind support of Fonds BKVB.

Buenos Aires Videos by: Adriana Berroteran, Carlos Trilnick, Diego Carabelli, Fernando Boto, Florencia Levy, Gabriel Rud, Luisina Bresler, Romina Salem Taborda, Su Tomesen, Viviana Perez Recalde. Gracias: Coen de Dui Dui y Peggy Vissers de la Embajada de los Paísos Bajos. Made possible through kind support of Fonds BKVB.

Rio de Janeiro Videos by: Antonia d'Orazio, David Bezemer, Eunice Gutman, Fabiano de Freitas, Gustavo Gelmini, Maurizio Lima, Moana Mayall, Rubens Pileggi Sá, Su Tomesen, Susana Fuentes, Thiago Luiz da Silva. Obrigada: Nanko van Buuren de Ibiss e Denise de Casa da Denise. Made possible through kind support of Fonds BKVB.

Amman Videos by: Amer Al-Sallal, Dana Qabbani, Esraa El-Mograbi, Esraa Jalal, Ghassan Aqel, Hasan Nabulsi, Mahmod Fares, Mahmod Al-Swadi, Mohammad Alqaq, Mustapha Mahmod, Najla Abdellatif, Omar Abed Alnabi, Rafiq Nasereddin, Shahira Issa, Su Tomesen. Shukran: Ola Khalidi wa Makan House. Made possible through kind support of Fonds BKVB.