“This, too, was a gift” is a research rooted in the artist’s personal process of transformation. Underpinned by analytical psychology, the theory of complex trauma, writings on film, trauma and the representation of the unrepresentable, the research explores how filmmaking can be a tool to foster and chronicle this multi-layered journey. Here, particular emphasis is placed on making visible — and empirically experiential — the impact of past traumatic events on the present moment.
Janos Tedeschi (b. 1983) is an artist, thinker, and seeker. A citizen of the world with Swiss and Italian heritage, he was educated in several countries in Europe and Asia and has continued to bloom where he is planted throughout research stays in several others around the globe (e.g. France, Indonesia, USA), leading to novel, complementary, and often contradictory ways of thinking and being. Now based in Amsterdam, he has found himself comfortably not at home there while thriving in a locus of creation.
Janos studied composition, gemological science, and process design prior to his current interdisciplinary film work. His most notable screen works thus far include the feature documentaries “No Way To Heaven” (2008), about people living on light, and “Inventing the In-between” (2019), with and about the pioneering actress Miriam Goldschmidt and her decades-long collaboration with theatre vanguard Peter Brook.
Since 2007, in a parallel creative realm, Janos has honed his expertise in historical jewellery design. Intrigued by the button as a socio-cultural signifier, he set out to reinvigorate the age-old craft of button-making; his iconic jewellery designs have become treasured objects among art collectors.
Janos is an active member of the Analog Sea offline community of artists and thinkers and co-edits the award-winning literary journal The Analog Sea Review. Impassioned and bewildered by the vital depths, dreams, and the transcendental, Janos looks at life as a mystery and the central leitmotif of all his creative practice is his probing approach into worlds beyond the visible, tangible and effable realms – both within and without himself.
