Manuel Graf

Manual Graf currently lives and works in Istanbul and Paris and has been working mostly with film since 2003. His animated films reflect models from architecture and design. His digital and hand-made animations are visual lectures that combine associative visual references with text and music samples. In addition to his digital work with sound and film, Manuel Graf’s interest in the sensuality inherent to craft work has led him to start making his own ceramics and women’s shoes since 2007. These objects have become an important part of his work and he has incorporated them into his films and their presentation. Influenced by his reading of Rudolf Steiner and Richard Sennett, Graf also aims at a reconciliation between man and work, following the principle that doing is thinking. In 2010 his completed range of shoes will be presented in a catwalk context.