Claire Kurylowski = ThePresentFuture
ThePresentFuture = Claire Kurylowski

Claire hails from the UK where she graduated from film school in 2009 making the move directly to Berlin in search of accumulating new visual perspectives as a film director. With her demure mood-piece Plenitude (2011) a Fashion Film inspired by collections from the label Volutio by Anna Kleihues, (DE), Claire Kurylowski has made her third successful venture into fashion film.

She has recently directed 2 commercials for KOMA Elektronik, a new Berlin based, innovating, instrument effects company, which will screen at the renowned independent culture festival Incubate in Tilburg (NL).

Her 10-minute short film House Woman was in the official selection for the New Queer British Talent section at London’s Short Film Festival in 2010 and also garnering international recognition at festivals such as the European Independent Film Festival and the Madrid Experimental Film Festival.

In 2009 she won with co-director Jason Bradbury the Daily Motion Prize at ASVOFF – A Shaded View On Fashion Film Festival by Diane Pernet, for Harald Lunde Helgesen’s fashion film HLH:2509BC which was screened at Le Centre Pompidou, Paris. 2009 also saw her win a Kodak Student Commercials Award for her Barnado’s Children’s Charity commercial.
Claire’s films, predominantly non-dialogue pieces, thrive on their strength in visual imagery; startling and poetic whether a commercial, short film or fashion film. She intends to push fashion film to the forefront, elevating its importance through demonstrating its worth as an extension to fashion collections. In summary, following Nick Knight’s prediction that we are “…in the midst of a revolution”.

Her future collaborations under the new collective name for her films: thePresentFuture, include a fashion film for the Berlin label Von Bardonitz by Nicole Roscher, currently presenting her S/S 2012 collection at the BerlinPieces Showroom at Kumpanya62, Istanbul Fashion Week.