Director and performer: Klāvs Liepiņš

Cinematography and colour grading: Sandijs Ruļuks

Assistant Director: Renāte Feizaka

Iceland, 2024

Loneliness as well as happiness varies in its form and nature.In the music video Graven, the character portrays those differences, revolving his existence around his inner liberation of post-Soviet generation gender conventions. It depicts scenes from the daily life of a seemingly quite lonely individual and shows the unseen wealth of emotional response hidden within those among us who appear to be the most disconnected.

Graven –

Written, recorded and produced by Vil – Lovis Bechmann and Julius Pollux Rothlaender.

Drums by Magnús Trygvason Eliassen

Additional recordings & mixed by Árni Hjörvar

Mastered by Katie Tavini

Vil - Graven

Artist Duo Klāvs Liepiņš and Renāte Feizaka

Hyperconnectivity

**Monk Echo** is a short art video and immersive installation exploring the threshold between body and sound. Created in collaboration with Mentha Works guitar pedal developers, the piece transforms sonic feedback into a spatial, almost tactile presence.

Through layered echoes and processed guitar textures, the body appears to dissolve into reverberation — contours blur, movements fragment, and physical form becomes an afterimage suspended in sound. Echo is not treated as an effect, but as a material: it stretches time, multiplies gesture, and destabilizes the boundary between origin and reflection.

Monk Echo

What becomes of the body and the soul after death? Religion and science offer divergent explanations, each shaping how we confront the unknown—interweaving belief, hypothesis, evidence, and imagination. Within this charged terrain of fact and fiction, the artist enters, not to resolve the question, but to navigate it—perhaps to construct another myth, perhaps to move closer to something elemental.

_Corpus_ is a contemplative meditation on mortality. It considers death not as an end, but as transformation: of body into matter, of matter into energy, of form into movement. Through subtle shifts in shape and motion, the work reflects on dissolution and continuity—on the fragile threshold between presence and absence.

Iceland, 2021

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