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VANITAS refers to baroque still life paintings where the things around us are staged to symbolize both impermanence and vanity. The film VANITAS will take you into a dark and dreamy world of queer bodies and symbols ruled by change. Here you will meet the precariousness of finding intimacy and meaning in landscapes dictated by binaries. Flowers wither, fruit rot and glass break. Nothing is forever. VANITAS is performed by professional dancers, performers and singers to a poetic sound collage of popmusic. The film is filled with ambivalence and everything is in a constant state of transformation.

William Andreas Wivel is a Danish born filmmaker, working in several countries, based in Copenhagen. He received his MA in Film Science from the University of Copenhagen in 2014 with a part productional, part academic thesis on the subject; queer-feministic film aesthetics. After finishing university Wivel entered The National Film School of Denmark where he graduated as Director (Documentary) in 2019. Wivel is specialised in auteur-driven documentary film and his work has an essayistic approach to storytelling and combining strong visuals with an in-depth character study. His latest film "Say?nara" was a Tiger Short Nominee at International Film Festival Rotterdam and selected for European Media Arts Festival, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin and Rencontres Internationales Du Documentaire De Montréal amongst others. He is now working on his debut feature length hybrid documentary “Atlas”. Jules Fischer is educated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2017 and has also studied Dance and Choreography at The National School of Performing Arts as well as in Art and Social Practice in Portland State University. Fischer has in collaborations with professional dancers and performers shown works at various art galleries and institutions, such as Kunsthal Charottenborg, Overgaden, Tranen and Glyptoteket. In 2023 they will have their first solo-show outside Denmark at UKS in Oslo. They have been chosen as part of the program “The young artistic elite 2022-23” and received work grants by Statens Kunstfond from 2017-2022, Agnete Jørgensens Billedhuggerlegat in 2017 as well as Bikubenfondens artist in residency grant in 2019-2020.