ZSOLT BALOGH

Video Designer & Animation Director

Zsolt Balogh is an animation director and video designer. His creative portfolio spans live events, theatre, installations, exhibitions and film. As a freelance designer he has worked extensively for 59 Productions and he has contributed to projects with SDNA, One of Us, The Mill, The People Speak, The Tate Modern/Britain, the V&A Museum, the BFI & LIFT festival. Credits include: Great North Star 2018 Part of the Great Exhibition of the North Video Designer World Economic Forum – Opening 2018 Davos Satori - Project Polunin 2018 A mixed multimedia programme presented by world-famous ballet star Sergei Polunin London Coliseum & Tour Julian Stoneman / Project Polunin Ltd Sigma 2017 by Gandini Juggling Video and Projection Designer Edinburgh & UK Tour ‘Andras Lovasi is 50’ Birthday Celebration 2017 Video Designer The Papp Laszlo Sportarena, Budapest Faust X2 2017 Starring Ian McDiarmid Video designer The Watermill Theatre We Are Hull 2017 Made in Hull / UK City of Culture 2017 Video & Animation Designer Glastonbury: Land & Legend 2016 Video Designer Curator: Kate Bailey V&A Museum, London

Unreachable 2016 Video Designer dir. Anthony Neilson The Royal Court Theatre Moon and Me 2016 Video Designer dir. Dawn Richmond-Gordon Eggbox Theatre Suicide 2016 Assistant Video Designer dir. Nadia Fall National Theatre Perspectives - video installation 2016 Video Designer (for 59Productions) The World Economic Forum/National Geographic wonder.land 2015 Senior Animator (for 59Productions) dir. Rufus Norris, written by Moira Buffini with music by Damon Albarn Manchester International Festival / National Theatre

‘The all-digital Cheshire Cat – flowing multi-coloured whiskers, terrifying fang-like teeth, representing all that is

enticing and frightening about the internet – is magnificent’ - The Guardian

Rewind 500 - projection-mapped display 2015 Animator (for 59Productions) Hampton Court Palace Global Goals UN 2015 Animator (for 59Productions) New York United Nations HQ, Searching for Balance - video installation 2015 Designer (for 59Productions) The World Economic Forum / National Geographic Great Britain 2014 Animation director (for 59Productions) dir. Nicholas Hytner National Theatre

‘Giant video screens dominate Tim Hatley’s design, relaying snippets from other papers … and as the images flash past we experience the fluidity of the news agenda as well as its limits.’ - Evening Standard

Three Dances - projection-mapped display 2014 Art director / animator

Hungarian State Opera, Budapest Lighting the Sails - projection-mapped display 2014 Animator (for 59Productions) Sydney Opera House / Sydney Vivid LIVE Festival Shakespeare, the greatest living playwright – Exhibition 2014 Animation Director (for 59Productions) Victoria & Albert Museum Opening Night - projection-mapped display 2013 Video Designer Hungarian State Opera, Budapest Emil and the Detectives 2013 Director of Animation (for 59Productions) dir. Bijan Sheibani National Theatre

The true star [of Emil and the Detectives] is [the] stunning design. Expressionistic, wonky and sometimes vertigo-inducing, it evokes the Twenties setting and has a magic all of its own.’ - Evening Standard

The Baroque Story - gallery installation 2013 Animation director (for 59Productions) Historic Royal Palaces, London David Bowie is - Touring exhibition 2013 Lead animator (for 59Productions) Victoria and Albert Museum

‘Beautifully immersive… constantly surprising, fun, curious and compelling’ - Huffington Post London Olympic Opening Ceremony 2012 Animation director for ‘Projection House’ (for 59Productions) dir. Danny Boyle This 7-min projection-mapped sequence celebrates 1960-2012 British art, culture and entertainment, was broadcast to worldwide audience of over 1 billion and forms a stand-alone bonus feature on the official DVD of the ceremony Enchanted Island 2012 Animator, digital painter (for 59Productions) dir. Phelim McDermott Metropolitan Opera 12 Moves 2012 Designer/Animator (for SDNA) Worcester/SDNA / Cultural Olympiad. Curtain Call - film and architectural installation 2012 Designer/Animator (for SDNA) SDNA / London Roundhouse

Les Miserables Animator (for 59Productions) World Tour Cooked - short film 2011 Visual Effects Supervisor dir. Jens Blank. Selected for Cannes Film Festival 2010

Project Polunin - SATORI at Coliseum & World Tour 2018

FAUST X2 Watermill Theatre – 2017

WE ARE HULL Hull City of Culture Launch – Jan 2017

GLASTONBURY LAND AND LEGEND - Victoria and Albert Museum

UNREACHABLE – The Royal Court Theatre

HAMPTON COURT 500 REWIND

LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC OPENING CEREMONY - ‘Projection House’

EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES – National Theatre