This Beautiful Shot is Not an Accident
by Laura J. Lukitsch: Filmmaker and Story Consultant
This Beautiful Shot is Not an Accident is a podcast that explores the creative process, storytelling and social change. These are inspiring conversations with creative individuals. Join me as I speak to artists, change-makers, and thinkers – creative humans who are deeply engaged in the creative process, exploring new ways of seeing the world and sharing what is possible. In the podcast, you’ll meet creative directors, filmmakers, advocates, artists, philosophers and more, in conversation with Laura J. Lukitsch, filmmaker, video artist and story consultant. Learn more about the series at thisbeautifulshot.com. Produced by Global Performance Media, globalperformancemedia.com.
Episodes
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Cleopatra Kambugu, seeds of change
“This is what I am, do you read me?” Cleopatra Kambugu is a biologist, activist and transgender film personality. Her wish to understand her gender expression led her to study genetics and molecular biology in university and later undergo surgery to help others decode what she felt she already…
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Tom Kellner, translating culture
Can books from one culture bring empathy to people from very different backgrounds and experiences? Post-doctoral research Tom Kellner is researching the translatability of Israeli literature being published in Germany. In this episode we speak about the process of understanding what books sell,...
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Michelle M. Wright, narratives and inclusion
Biases in search engines are not only an issue of algorithms, our bias is built into the beliefs we have about the world. And our beliefs are influenced by the stories we absorb through our culture and more and more the information we find online. Today I’m speaking with Michelle M. Wright,...
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Dori Tunstall, designing for diversity
Inclusion and equity don’t just happen because it is part of your mission statement. Creating a space where all members feel a sense of belonging is a process. And today I am in conversation with Dori Tunstall who has been working in the area of diversity, equity, inclusion and decolonization.…
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Della Duncan, upstream podcast
What is needed to create an economic system that supports human and planetary flourishing? Renegade Economist Della Duncan speaks about what is needed, deeper connection with our values. Della is founder and co-host of the Upstream Podcast where she invites listeners to imagine what a…
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Mischa Leinkauf, at the border
Today I’m talking to filmmaker, installation artist and photographer Mischa Leinkauf whose work explores the borders, borders of buildings, bridges, public space, laws, and nation states. This season I’ve been talking to artists about their first solo show. Many of his works are performative...
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Wild Anima ecology of emotion
The ecology of emotions is a concept Wild Anima, musician and sound artist Alex Alexopolous has been developing. It is a practice of mending the broken parts through our inner process of photosynthesis. Her sound work and artistic practice center around the heart and healing through nature,...
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Artist Residency Part 4, Time & Possibility
Time and a sense of new possibilities are essential for the creative process. Today I speak with the co-creators of KuBa Kulturabahnhof where I’ve been in residence for a month about the artistic process and the gifts of the residency sharing space with the villages of Klien Warnow and beyond. I...
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Artist Residency Part 3, Changing
This week painter Jamila Barakat and video/audio artist Laura J. Lukitsch speak about how their work has developed during the three weeks at the artist residency at KuBa Kulturbahnhof. Jamila shares how she was able to break through her previous painting style to find a new dialect to her…
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Artist Residency Part 2, Unfolding
The creative process is not a straight line. This week painter Jamila Barakat and video/audio artist Laura J. Lukitsch share reflections on their creative process during their artist residency at KuBa Kulturbahnhof. The conversation covers feeling like a fraud, thoughts on beauty and disgust and…
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Artist Residency Part 1
Have you been curious about what happens at an artist residency? Painter Jamila Barakat and video/audio artist Laura J. Lukitsch share their reflections on their first artist residency. They talk about the creative process, embracing happiness and failure, self-esteem, past projects and what they...
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Artist, Curator, Katze Shaw
Katze is a Chinese artist and curator living in Berlin. In today’s conversation, we travel from a buried treasure in a school ground in China to marching down the streets of Berlin while remembering the events of 1989 in both countries. Her work is a deep meditation on freedom and the forms it...
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Musician Shasta Ellenbogen
Shasta Ellenbogen is a musician, violist and who founded Classical Sundays, a classical music series bringing new audiences to the classical music genre through an innovative way of curating concerts in Berlin, Germany. In today’s conversation, we talk about the culture of classical music…
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Radio Producer Gabi Schaffner
Radio Producer and artist Gabi Schaffner has been creating audio experiences in the realm of field recording music fusions and collaborative garden based radio programs. In our conversation, Gabi shared insights into her artistic trajectory and the links between her work and her view of the…
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Artist Maria Thereza Alves
Artist Maria Thereza Alves has been investigating the histories and circumstances of particular locations to bear witness to colonial stories that have been silenced. Her work makes visible the impacts of an economic practice that fails to view nature as alive: from documenting the…
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Jennifer Bennett, visual artist & author
Visual artist and author Jennifer Bennett’s work explores boundaries and otherness, diversity and exclusion. In our conversation, we talked about her book, SAVE, which documents her travels since 2010 from Paris to Mexico and the US. In discussing her first work she also talks about the role of...
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Sound Artist Jens-Uwe Dyffort
Sound artist Jens-Uwe Dyffort listens to the architecture of space and along with artist Roswitha von den Driesch, creates spatial audio installations and environmental audio work for galleries and public spaces. The work, through a web of sound that bounces, moves, swells, and circles, brings a...
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Cultural Worker Mikala Hyldig Dal
Cultural worker, artist, curator and author Mikala Hyldig Dal today employs radical optimism combined with realism to engage with complex issues like housing in the time of gentrification. Mikala’s first solo, Who’s Afraid, looked at ISIS videos and political role plays. We talk about her work,...
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Performance Artist Tone Haldrup Lorenzen
Many of us have a voice in our head that keeps us for doing our work. Tone Haldrup Lorenzen, a performance artist, director and co-founder of the feminist theater, had such a voice. This season I am talking to artists about their first solo show. Tone shares about overcoming this destructive…
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Bitter Things Exhibition bi’bak
Today I’m talking about research-based artistic practice with two members of the bi’bak creative team about the exhibition, Bitter Things, Narratives and Memories of Transnational Families (co-artistic director, Can Sungu). We speak about the process of finding a story and how a series of...
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Artist Giò Di Sera
Today I’m talking to Italian artist, musician, radio host and founder of StreetUniverCity, Gió De Sera, also known as, Don Rispetto. Giò’s work focuses on bringing the history of hip hop to the youth of Kreuzberg. In today’s episode Giò shares some difficult subjects including the impact of…
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Author Mathilde Ramadier
Today I’m talking to French author and artist Mathilde Ramadier about the power of observation and the importance of listening to nature. Mathilde has written about work, sexism and most recently deep ecology. The foundation of much of her writing is taking time to be aware of what is happening...
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Musician Marion Ruault
Today I’m talking to French musician, improviser and composer, Marion Ruault. We spoke about the freedom and responsibility that comes with playing improvised music about the need to find a balance between one’s impulses on what’s happening in the group. Listening is an important part of this...
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Noise Artist Mathieu Sylvestre
In this episode, I talk to French noise artist, Mathieu Sylvestre about listening. As an artist, he plays live experimental works and sometimes composes for film and theater. When composing for others, he speaks about the challenge of translating what is heard and felt by one person to another.…
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Artist Karine Bonneval
In the spring of 2019 I attended a Tree Sound Walk organized by French artist Karine Bonneval, who works on the topic of human-plant relations. She was as artist-in-residence at the Berlin gallery, Gru_nd with her project, De'jardiner, or De-Gardening. We spoke about her work in finding ways to...
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Musician Pamela Z
In this episode I spoke with composer, performer, and media artist Pamela Z, about her process of collecting sounds to create compositions, using samples from the environment, interviews and her own voice. Her practice has shown her that observing is an active role. We spoke about how a work is…
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Dancer Márcio Canabarro
In winter 2018 I spoke dancer Márcio Kerber Canabarro about listening as a kinetic practice. Beyond dance, he sees listening to the self as a way of understanding others better.
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Choreographer Sara Shelton Mann
This season I am talking to artists and thinkers about the art of listening. In winter 2018 I spoke to choreographer and performer, Sara Shelton Mann In the winter of 2018, Sara Shelton Mann brought Echo/Listening Through Walls to Dock 11 in Berlin, Germany, in collaboration with Anya Cloud and...
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Choreographer Yannis Adoniou
This season I am talking to artists and thinkers about the art of listening. In winter 2018 I spoke dancer and choreographer Yannis Adoniou about his work and how listening influences his practice. He spoke about the importance of making conscious choices of what we listen to and how we give...
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Embracing Change | IOBY
Building empathy is a fundamental part of the design thinking process, and that often takes place through direct conversations. IOBY’s has developed an innovative way of pairing a tech-based crowdfunding platform with on the ground organizing to foster social change one small campaign at a time.…
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Staying Positive | Emilia Gutierrez, Amnesty International USA
When working on social change issues, how do we stay positive? That is a question I asked EMILIA Gutierrez, Director of Online Engagement at Amnesty International USA. Emilia started her journey in social change work on the campaign trail for Obama and has experience working with new media. For…
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Designing narratives | Stephanie Romig
In this episode, I speak to designer and social entrepreneur, Stephanie Romig. As a designer, she leverages narrative design to create solutions for public spaces. We speak about the use of questions as a valuable but overlooked tool for building stories and connecting stakeholders. Stephanie...
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Transforming a City | JP Amaral
In this episode, I speak to bike activist JP Amaral, co-founder of Bike Anjo, about narratives that change a city. When JP fell in love with biking in 2007, it was said that biking in Sao Paolo was impossible. By 2017, Sao Paolo had over 74 miles of bike lanes and a bike-sharing program. I spoke…
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Exploring New Urban Narratives | SF Urban Film Fest
In today’s episode Fay Darmawi, founder of the San Francisco Urban Film Fest, talks about the power storytelling to humanize policy work. Fay had been working in affordable housing finance for twenty years when the program supporting affordable housing financing was suddenly cut without any…
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Using Video for Fundraising | Bowman School
As Development Director of a California Montessori school, Chiara Sani is responsible for raising millions of dollars. She decided to use video as part of their fundraising communications strategy. It was her first time working with video and the process involved both unexpected bumps and…
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The Importance of Planning | Swordfish
In today’s episode, we talk about key ingredients for successful design projects. I speak with Matt Silverman, Executive Creative Director and founder of the motion design studio Swordfish, and Kathryn Bodle, Executive Producer. They share that no matter the size of the client, successful…
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Video for Good | SF Beautiful
You may not be able to imagine a time without easy access to cameras, but that was the situation in the US in the 1930s. Roosevelt sent out photographers to document the lives of Americans. Those images inspired congress to understand the impact of the Great Depression and to provide programs to...
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Changing the Narrative | Maya Zuckerman
In today’s episode, I speak with Maya Zuckerman, a regenerative entrepreneur, speaker and culture hacker. We talk about social change organizations and the importance of vision, defining what one stands for as opposed to what one stands against. We discuss the specifics involved in building these...
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Fight Hard and Speak Out | Earthjustice
In today’s episode, I speak with Ray Wan, creative director of Earthjustice. You may know Earthjustice from their tagline, “Because the Earth needs a good lawyer,” and their work for the environment, wildlife and community health. We met up a few weeks after Trump entered office and spoke about…
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About this show
This Beautiful Shot is Not an Accident is a podcast that explores the creative process, storytelling and social change. These are inspiring conversations with creative individuals. Join me as I speak to artists, change-makers, and thinkers – creative humans who are deeply engaged in the creative process, exploring new ways of seeing the world and sharing what is possible. In the podcast, you’ll meet creative directors, filmmakers, advocates, artists, philosophers and more, in conversation with Laura J. Lukitsch, filmmaker, video artist and story consultant. Learn more about the series at thisbeautifulshot.com. Produced by Global Performance Media, globalperformancemedia.com.
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Laura J. Lukitsch: Filmmaker and Story Consultant