Kalina is a Polish-born, London-based filmmaker, photographer and creative director.Kalina has been working in the creative industry for the past fourteen years, initially focusing on fashion styling and creative direction. Assisting stylists and creative directors such as Edward Enninful, Karen Langley and Lucia Liu, to name a few, she developed a strong work ethic and an eye for detail, working across the UK, US, Europe and Asia on projects with artists such as Frank Ocean, among others. As her career progressed, she became increasingly drawn to storytelling and the magic of working closely with her subjects in a multidisciplinary way, eventually leading her to shift towards lens-based media. Since then, Kalina has shot short films, music videos, press shots, campaigns, lookbooks and branded content.Her work explores the spectrum of human emotion within micro and macro communities, highlighting people, places and scenarios that might otherwise go unnoticed. Social critique, social justice, cultural identity, migration and mental health are overarching principles and core themes in her practice, often stemming from personal experience, including her diasporic heritage and moments of intimacy within the mundane.Kalina’s multidisciplinary background allows her to apply her skill set to various project types and media formats, from moving image and photographic work to printed photobooks and, more recently, installation art. Her visual style is defined by a bold and meaningful use of colour and a blend of analogue and digital processes. She often plays with the confines of the frame, be it the literal confines of the camera or the boundaries of the set, firmly grounding her subjects in reality.

Director

Kalina Pulit

Kalina Pulit directs an effervescent time-travelling mini-blockbuster starring singer Mae Muller and DJs Billen Ted for their dance-pop anthem When You're Out.&nbsp;With the Billen Ted duo breaking free from enforced isolation to clubbing freedom courtesy of their time-travelling DeLorean - complete with Back To The Future accessories - Pulit builds a playful, all-action narrative, employing 360 camerawork to enhance the storyline, and Mae Muller's charismatic performance.It's a big breakthrough into mainstream pop videos for the director, whos work for the likes of Harry Edwards and Schafter has tended towards the more experimental. But that proves to be an advantage here as she interprets this infectious summer hit through a distinctive lens.&nbsp;&nbsp;We spoke to Kalina Pulit about the experience of making the video.[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>We got our hands on the most accurate&nbsp;Back To The Future&nbsp;Delorean Time Machine...</blockquote>Pn: How did you get involved in the project? KP: It was one of those projects that caught my eye for several reasons. It came through Emily Rudge, an amazing EP. We’ve been meaning to work together for a while. Billen Ted guys have laid out a compelling foundation to build on within the brief. Also, the track pays homage to a classic Don’t Think I’m Not&nbsp;by Kandi, so there’s an element of reworking something nostalgic, which I found interesting.How did you develop the time-travel idea for the video? I think it’s important to make work that resonates. I imagine a lot of us daydream occasionally about time travelling - either to the past or future- especially when going through such a period of reflection as the one brought via the pandemic. The aim was to address the transition from a home rave to a club one, and we took that quite literally. The base for it came from Billen Ted and I’ve just built on top of that and developed it further.I love working with music artists that have a vision for the visual aspect of their work and this was a great opportunity for capturing the playfulness of Billen Ted duo and Mae Muller’s empowering energy.[imgtoken data:2]<blockquote>We aimed to address the transition from a home rave to a club one - we took that&nbsp;literally.</blockquote>Your directing work in videos has generally been for more leftfield artists. How did you adapt to directing a video for a pop banger? There was something about pop music bringing joy to the masses that Sia spoke about during her podcast with Louis Theroux, which has stuck with me. I felt like bringing some positive vibes into our Covid-fractured reality.Also, I like to be versatile with my work and I’m particularly interested in things I haven’t explored yet. More consideration went towards the audience on this one. I wanted to create something that would&nbsp;be cinematic, and at the same time reflect some of the trends generated on platforms such as TikTok.Linear narrative is not usually my thing, I’m more into non-linear storytelling. Working with a more commercial song required a compromise on that front. I like to layer messages in my work rather than force a certain literal interpretation, so that the viewer can take what they want from it. In this case it might be Mae’s powerful performance, Billen Ted duo being fun, the energy of a much longed-for night out and the DeLorean looking cool.And if you want to read into it more, there’s inter-dimensional time travel, duality of worlds, escapism from mundane reality, disco ball and plethora of other circles within the frame and camera style, symbolising movement and things being forever in flux.[imgtoken data:3]<blockquote>360 camera technology...&nbsp;seemed like a perfect vehicle for transitioning between the two worlds.</blockquote>Where did you find a DeLorean with proper Back To The Future tech? Could that be the original car? We were extremely lucky to get our hands on the most accurate&nbsp;Back To The Future&nbsp;Delorean Time Machine - with some of the parts used from the vehicle in the movie. Kudos to the DMND CLR production team for making that happen.I have a thing for peculiar cars - but this one was like nothing I’ve seen so far. Literally out of this world experience. The design, the details, the condition of it, the sound it made. One of the highlights of the shoot for the crew and onlookers, and rightly so.What was the thinking behind shooting some of the footage on a 360 camera? I’m always on the lookout for something that will provide a framework for storytelling and an opportunity for visual experimentation, whether that’s working with analogue film, datamoshing, CCTV cameras, projection art or 360 cameras - depending on what fits the narrative best.I was drawn to 360 camera technology as it’s still fairly new and unexplored. I was curious to see what we can do with it. Plus it seemed like a perfect vehicle for transitioning between the two worlds – the ‘current’ and the ‘club’ reality.[imgtoken data:4]What were the big challenges on the shoot - and on the production as a whole? We’ve had a really great day on set -&nbsp;lovely crew, amazing atmosphere. We worked within a very tight schedule, due to the multi-camera set up, amongst other things. I think the biggest challenge was to facilitate the environment for the 360 cameras element – as everything gets in the shot when using these. It took some meticulous planning, balanced with plenty of improvisation.What has been your biggest takeaway from making the video? The biggest takeaway from making the video is perhaps easing more into the art of relinquishing control over the final outcome and adapting to work within certain limitations, whether that be technology, time, or resources available.There’s plenty of things that turn out to be much better than intended and some that don’t work at all on projects with that level of experimentation so training that flexibility muscle and staying on course is key.

United Kingdom

Dijian Eccles

Radical Media

Emily Rudge

Andre Wooz

Danny Rumbelow

Arran Green

Orlando Morris

Sam Kemp

Kristof Szentgyorgyvary

Ella Violetta

Vlad Barin

CHEAT

Denova Media

Katie Dolan

Black Butter

Dmnd Clr

Rupert Peddle

Jaime Jarvis

James Loach

Lisa Laudat

Zara Ali

Ola Christian at LEVILE

Jake Hunte

Oonah Anderson

REPmedia

Dance

Billen Ted ft Mae Muller 'When You're Out' by Kalina Pulit

Billen Ted - When You're Out (Official Video) ft. Mae Muller

Kalina Pulit explores surveillance and observation in her promo for teenage Polish rapper Schafter, featuring London rapper Houston X.&nbsp;The video for Need Help was shot in both Warsaw and in London, and is a frenetic journey through lo-fi aesthetics and fly-on-the-wall perspectives, featuring numerous TV screens in a nod to pioneering video artist Nam June Paik.&nbsp;The performances are suitably offbeat and energetic, celebrating the dynamism of the concept.&nbsp;

Maruška Dukić

Papaya Films

Kacper Sawicki, Paweł Bondarowicz

Karol Pieńkowski

Sofia Karolina Jakubowska

Igor Połaniewicz

Bradley Stearn, Łukasz Karbowiak

Jakub Żukowski

Abi Hurcomb, Paweł Chiczewski

Stefania Strzałkowska Rajca, Maciej Strzałkowski Rajca

Michał Koszek, Seif Ali-umaar

Anna Stykała, Holly Miller

Fred Van Eeden

Rio De Post

Sylwia Desowska

Jan Porębski

Restaurant Posse

Elliot Zelmanovits

Hip Hop

Alternative

Schafter ft Houston X 'Need Help' by Kalina Pulit

schafter - need help (feat. Houston X)

Kalina Pulit's second video for UK producer Harry Edwards&nbsp;continues her dissection of what it means to be a man in the modern world.The video for Grow Up is the sequel to <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/11/28/harry-edwards-tame-kalina-pulit/64471" target="_blank">Pulit's video for Edwards' Tame</a>, and like its predecessor, it packs a testosterone-heavy punch, but with an element of mystery.&nbsp;"Grow Up is a journey of inner and outer struggle of being a boy; an emotional pendulum, oscillating between anger and play, strength and vulnerability," she says.

Zofia Hussakowska, Milena Yen Tran-liniewicz

Maciej Gamdzyk

Maria Polaczek

Klaudia Wypiór

Monika Jakutowicz

New Wave Film

Kajetan Borowski

Krzysztof Oleksyn, Konrad Beta, Adam Hadi, Hubert Fiebig, Jakub Kozieł, Nikodem Nowak, Krzysztof Zarzycki, Łukasz Pawlak, Bartosz Gryz, Paweł Mandziewski, Tomasz Kozik

Wolf Tone

Milena Yen Tran-liniewicz

Czarek Elmerych

Harry Edwards 'Grow Up' by Kalina Pulit

Harry Edwards • Grow Up

Photographer and filmmaker Kalina Pulit investigates an emotional journey&nbsp;of losing someone close, and explores themes of distorted identity, decay and death through glitchy video effects in her video for Elephant Tree's Sails. A contemporary take on psychedelic paradigm.

Holy Roar Records

Elephant Tree 'Sails' by Kalina Pulit

Elephant Tree • Sails

Kalina Pulit's first video for producer-turned-artist Harry Edwards is a coming of age story exploring the spectrum of masculinity and the beauty of brotherhood, set in a boxing gym.

Maciej Gamdzyk, Czarek Elmerych

Harry Edwards 'Tame' by Kalina Pulit

Harry Edwards • Tame