Annex Films has signed the incredibly talented Sil van der Woerd. After studying Fine Arts at the Academy of Art and Design in Arnhem, the Netherlands, he made two short films “Duet” and Swim”. “Swim” went global and won several awards. From there he moved to Hollywood to study visual effects at Gnomon to perfect his technique. Sil uses film and mixed new media, live action and dominant soundtracks to express his fictitious, atmospheric worlds.
The music video “Worms” was the beginning of the collaboration between Sil and the singer, Lolly Jane Blue. The duo started to build visual worlds around her songs that extended in her photography and concert visuals. “Worms” gives us a taste of what this director is capable of. The making of Worms was covered in a 10 hour training DVD series recorded at the Gnomon Workshop.

The underwater sequences in "Worms", saw Sil approached by Sensation, the worlds leading dancing event, to create visuals for their 9th world tour. The producer’s of Cameron Diaz’s latest film “My Sister’s Keeper” also recently paid Sil, for a few seconds of footage from his short film “Swim” to be used in the film & trailer.

This week sees premiere of “White Swan”, Sil’s brand new music video for Lolly Jane Blue. The song is about escapism from an uncomfortable situation into an imaginary world. Shot in Beringen, Belgium, in a dead coal mine, the film tells the story of an exhausted, shivering girl who is captured in a dark machinery world where she dreams of being taken away under the wings of a white swan. The film was funded by Gnomon and Sil’s post production crew were the students of Gonom’s School of Visual Effects

Sil shares the experience, “Shooting a video backwards, in the middle of the night with a naked girl on a stone cold floor in ice-cold rain was...challenging to say the least”. Adding fairy floss to the mix, which absorbs moisture from the air requiring it to be made fresh during the shoot, added to the complexity.