Written and Directed by Carlos Vin Lopes
2025
A man is lost in his own dream. He wants to wake up, but he can't, finding himself in despair and with only a strange being for company who makes him feel that this dream may not be a dream after all.
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A fashion film
Written & Directed by Carlos Vin Lopes
This is a fashion project by Lena Chabrova & Kristina Huber their collection part of a surreal and experimental story between two individuals sharing something they can't see, but only feel.
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Created & Designed by Carlos Vin Lopes
2025
I’ve been researching and reading some books about the scientific and emotional side of memory.
To help me in this process, I’ve started to set up some analogical (and abstract) tests with my own memory.
With some cardboard of different colors, I began to draw and create some abstract shapes, which metaphorically could connect to some specific memory, some trivial moments from the past.
After cutting out dozens and dozens of unusual shapes, some of these shapes began to represent a specific “reality”, a moment that had happened and then other smaller shapes based on these larger shapes began to represent what I actually remember from these specific moments. And in the process of giving meaning and cataloguing these shapes, I started to think about how much I remember from these exact moments, what exactly I remember, almost like a mental game about “fact” and “fantasy”, where I was trying to reconstruct some past in my mind and understand what was “real”, as an act of “imaginative reconstruction”.
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Written and Directed by Carlos Vin Lopes
2020
This is a music video for the Berlin based French musician Aude Langlois.
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Written and Directed by Carlos Vin Lopes
2016
Sweet Water of Memory is a movie shot almost 10 years ago and is about the reflections about memory.
The character played by German actor Maximilian Nepomuk plunges into reflections on the madness and normality of remembering the past, mixing facts with fantasies that result in wondering what is and was really real, who really existed and how all our memories play with our lucidity.
After 10 years, a movie we created to talk about memory has become a true memory itself.
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Directed by Carlos Vin Lopes
2024
An association of local stakeholders saved the monument from imminent destruction and is currently overseeing the restoration efforts. Their ambitious project aims to transform this vast space into a hub for nature, agriculture, and culture, open to the public.
Visual artist Chrystel Lebas engages in long-term projects involving photography, sound, and video. Her work documents and reveals changes in nature caused by ecological and anthropological interactions, and together with a map from 1723, they embark on a short journey to understand who is part of the transformation of this territory.
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Written and Directed by Carlos Vin Lopes
2014
Smile, Mirror is a movie about silence and the feelings inside.
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Written and directed by Carlos Vin Lopes
2018
A time that has stopped in the past, and has no more future. When people who love each other stop loving for some reason, maybe time has made them not love as before, and these remnants, "pieces", "fragments" of love are no longer enough to move on.
The memory is forever, the moment of love is marked, even knowing that it is at an end.
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Created & designed by Carlos Vin Lopes
2021
Can you picture life without the act of feeling, creating, imagining? Since the daw of humanity, we aim to fill the gaps in our life with our senses, thoughts, words and tools. Even in our most prosaic actions, we accept the underlying truth that life is not enough. We create moments, made with simple elements and things around us, in order to be able to fill - and feel - life.
Written and Directed by Carlos Vin Lopes
2015
Blind Data is an experimental series when two strangers (a German and a French) meet and develop a relationship, without ever seeing each other, as they are required to be blindfolded at every moment. They are part of a scientific study where there are clear rules: they can't see each other (both wear blindfolds), personal information are forbidden as both signed a contract, and they let two scientists watch them and eventually turn their lives around as they go into something much deeper than a simple experiment.
The project is a mix between documentary and fiction.
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Written and Directed by Carlos Vin Lopes
2019
This is a music video for the Swedish musician Minru.
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Film and Visual Identity by Carlos Vin Lopes (Grupppo Studio)
2021
‘Passage’, temporary artist residencies in the region of the Dübener Heide, a programme of the Kultur- und Kunstverein Kemberg e.V. (Kemberg Culture and Art Association) and Polygona Kunstverein e.V. (Polygona Art Association). ‘Passage’ aims to look at the region of the Dübener Heide in the context of its history, landscape and culture through artistic approaches by means of photography and film and to thematise it regionally and transregionally. The aim is to highlight trends and focal points of a region that is undergoing a transition. ‘Passage’ is looking for ways to use ingenuity and creativity to broaden the view of the fragility of nature and make social changes visible.
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Directed by Carlos Vin Lopes
2016
A Terra Dentro da Gente is a short documentary about four Brazilian musicians in Berlin.
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Created and Designed by Carlos Vin Lopes
2024
The Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (CIIPE) invited me to present two of my works at this year’s Biennial. The Biennial has been held since 1979 with the aim of inviting different poster artists/ designers from different parts of the world to present their latest work to a North American audience.
The work I chose for the Biennale was the project I’ve been developing with the composer and professor of Music Composition, Paulo Rios Filho, a Brazilian musician focused on experimental music who has performed in most Brazilian states and a dozen countries around the world.
The project we’ve been creating started at the beginning of 2023, focusing on a visual dialog between experimental music and graphic design.
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Carlos Vin Lopes
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Brazilian-born director/writer, art director & visual artist based in Berlin since 2012, Carlos Vin Lopes completed a MA in Visual Communication at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. He held a scholarship from the prestigious German institution DAAD. His work has been featured in film festivals and museums worldwide (Bolivia, France, Germany, Poland, USA).
He is one of the founders of the visual arts & design studio Grupppo based in Berlin and since 2024 he is one the professor at Catalyst - Institute for Creative Arts and Technology also in Berlin teaching Image Composition, Narrative and Storyboarding & Animation for the Bachelor degree course.
He has been working professionally as a film director, screenwriter, editor and art director since 2014, with projects mostly concentrated in Germany, Italy and Brazil.
Carlos Vin Lopes works on cultural and artistic projects with a focus on multidisciplinarity between filmmaking, design and storytelling.
He is one of the founders of the visual arts & design studio Grupppo based in Berlin and since 2024 he is one the professor at Catalyst - Institute for Creative Arts and Technology also in Berlin teaching Image Composition, Narrative and Storyboarding & Animation for the Bachelor degree course.
He has been working professionally as a film director, screenwriter, editor and art director since 2014, with projects mostly concentrated in Germany, Italy and Brazil.
Carlos Vin Lopes works on cultural and artistic projects with a focus on multidisciplinarity between filmmaking, design and storytelling.
Education
Master’s Degree in Visual Communication at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee - Germany (2012-2016)
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship Holder for Visual Communication at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee - Germany (2012-2014)
First Year Bacharel Degree in Architecture & Urbanism at Universidade Federal da Bahia - Brazil (2010-2011)
Bacharel Degree in Visual Communication at Universidade Salvador - Brazil (2005-2009)
Experience
Grupppo Studio - Berlin, Germany
(2022 - )
Co-Founder of the Image-Making & Storytelling Studio Grupppo - Graphic Design, Visual Art, Film, Directing, Writing, 3D, Branding, Art Direction, Social Media, Editorial, Web.
Catalyst Institute For Creative Arts And Technology - Berlin, Germany
(2024 - )
Professor of Image Composition, Narrative, Storyboarding & Animation for the Bachelor degree students at Catalyst Berlin.
Passage - Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
(2021 - )
Passage is a residency programme for lens-based artists organised in the Eastern Germany region of the Dübener Heide. Over the decades, the area has experienced extensive changes in landscape and land use, transitioning from its industrial past to more recent environmental interventions. The programme’s aim is to document the current socio-geographical status and emphasise the transitional nature of this territory through the research and interpretation of the artists-in-residence.
Together with his partners at Grupppo Studio, they are responsible in creating videos, visual materials and graphics for this residency programme.
The Worlddrooms Films - Berlin, Germany
(2014 - 2019)
Film director, screenwriter and graphic designer for the film production company The Worldrooms Film.
Theater Acker Stadt Palast - Berlin, Germany
(2014 - 2016)
Filmmaker and graphic designer for artistic projects at the theater Acker Stadt Palast.
Awards/Exhibitions
The Colorado International Invitational Poster
Exhibition 2024 - USA
He has been invited to exhibit two of his latest works at the Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition 2024.
Songscapes Book 2024 – Hong Kong
He was invited to exhibit one of his works in the book Songscapes dedicated to design and motion projects connected with music, published by Victionary Books.
Fusion Festival 2023 – Germany
Speaker of the discussion panel about diversity in the art and film industry in Germany.
Art Director Club 2023 – Germany
Selected and invited to Future Diversity BIPoC 2023 by Art Director Club Germany.
OFFF DACH 2022 – Germany & Austria
Speaker at Design & Visual Art Event OFFF DACH 2022.
FREE THE WORK – USA
Invitation to be one of the “Creator Spotlights” of the non-profit organization “Free The Work”, which is committed to realizing equity in media and creating opportunities for underrepresented creatives behind the lens in television, film and marketing.
The Colorado International Invitational Poster
Exhibition 2024 - USA
One of 80 designers/artists from around the world to exhibit at the Curfman Gallery, Lory Student Center, Hatton Gallery and Visual Arts Building in Colorado, USA.
International Art Design Poster Biennial – Bolivia
First prize at the International Art Design Poster Biennale in Bolivia, La Paz.
Cannes Film Festival – France
He screened his short film “Smile, Mirror” at Cannes Film Festival.
European Independet Film Festival - France
Nominated in the category Best Screenplay with his short film “Smile, Mirror”.
Lisbon International Film Festival - Portugal
He wrote and directed the webseries “Blind Data”, nominated at Lisbon Film Festival.
Ottawa Internattional Film Festival - Canada
He wrote and directed the webseries “Blind Data”, nominated at Ottawa Film Festival.
Caminhos Film Festival - Portugal
He directed and wrote the short film “Strawberry Jam”, nominated in the best short film category.
Die Serieale - Germany
He wrote and directed the webseries “Blind Data”, nominated at Die Seriale.
10th International Poster Triennial in Toyama - Japan
He was selected for a exhibition in Toyama, Japan to show some of his graphic design works.
22th International Biennial of Poster In Warsaw - Poland
He was selected for a exhibition in Warsaw, Poland to present two large format posters.
Skills
Film
Video
Design
Art Direction
Short Film
Storytelling
Music Video
Documentary
Graphic Design
Visual Art
Collage
Posters
Photography
Filmmaking
Experimental
Visual Identity
Motion Graphics
Screenwriting
Color Grading
Editing