Dadara and Jesse
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Dadara and Jesse are a veejaying duo from Amsterdam, who together made the movie Fall and Rise of the Fools Ark.
The movie is the partially animated story of the Greymen and their battle against the Fools Ark, a 15-metre-long wooden ship built in Holland, transported to the United States, and burnt in the Nevada desert. Footage from the construction of Dadara's Fool's Ark at Burning Man is intertwined into an audio-visual journey through forgotten worlds to tell the story of the project. This journey is guided by the music from Lamb.
Dadara is a contemporary painter, sculptor, and installation artist from Amsterdam, who regularly exhibits at the Reflex Modern Art Gallery in Amsterdam. He established himself designing flyers, doing live paintings, and recordsleeves for the emerging house music scene at beginning of the nineties. Other projects include the eight-metre-high "Greyman Statue of No Liberty", baby-shaped loudspeakers for B&W, and campaigns for Greenpeace and Absolut Vodka.
Jesse Limmen is an animator, graphics artist, woodcarver, and cameraman from Amsterdam. Hr started out designing websites, but quickly burned moved on to make animations and free work. He has produced large animation projects for national TV, as well as live concerts. Next to commercial work, woodcarving is one of his strong points.
