The second project is open

WORTH THE TIME. TWICE.

As of today you can apply for the second project: WORTH THE TIME. TWICE.

It is about people who give old things new value — by repairing them, by upcycling them or by turning them into art. Not about perfection and not about nostalgia. About the decision to put time into something that could simply have been replaced.

The structure is the same triad as in TWO WAYS OF BEING REAL, only with a different subject: the real working process is filmed from a fixed camera position and later condensed into one minute — hours become a minute. Eight analogue Polaroids showing the person and the object are made alongside. And one single sentence from the person portrayed: what this thing means to them, in their own words.

Only the person doing the work is visible. The object's own story is present nonetheless: in its traces of use and in the decision not to throw it away.

No craft training is required, and no modelling experience either. The series is limited to eight people, selected participation is paid with €50, and the free places are not determined by signed contracts but by recordings actually completed.

Everything else — process, rights, payment — is on the project page and in the participation FAQ:

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