type film making animation and digital media industry arts and media founded 1999 headquarters camden products documentary drama video installation animation dance live vjing website http www.yeastculture.org yeast culture sometimes spelt yeastculture is a company engaged in film making and digital media based in camden london . the company was started in 1999 by directors nick hillel and marc silver . silver left the company in 2005 but hillel remains as creative director and is supported by a team of film makers visual artists and animators . it embraces many diverse disciplines including documentary drama video installation animation dance live vjing and touring exhibitions . 1 2 3 yeast culture shot and edited four one hour documentaries for channel 4 and bbc 2 ; naked protest burning man community or kaos global protest the battle of prague and big chill in cairo 1999 . 4 among their other clients have been work for nitin sawhney courtney pine jamie cullum the philharmonia orchestra beastie boys brian eno michael nyman dennis rollins baaba maal the v & a serious the british council matthew herbert the philharmonia orchestra akram khan and the national film theatre . 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 references edit jammie cullum . xl video . 2006 . retrieved 28 october 2010 . o donovan terry 22 july 2010 . confluence . the stage . retrieved 13 november 2010 . nick hillel s visual projections are surely the most sophisticated and sensitive on stage . walters john l 12 december 2005 . norwegian voices barbican london . the guardian . retrieved 13 november 2010 . video artists yeast did their best to unify all this nordic diversity with arresting largely monochrome visuals . 4docs films king of laughter made by nick hillel 2008 accessed 2010 people . heath life . 2009 . retrieved 28 october 2010 . johnson phil 15 january 2006 . jamie cullum colston hall bristol . the independent . london . retrieved 12 november 2010 . the superb visuals designed by yeast which mix inventive little films and animations with live camera coverage of jamie s manic gurning offer a classy context for the songs while the black and white live shots supply the intimate jazz club vibe that gets lost in a big hall . http www.coolhunting.com culture yeastculture.php quote they can do it off the cuff too and have vj d for artists as varied as the beastie boys and matthew herbert and also at the big chill . they ll be pulling out all the stops as part of the bbc s electric proms http www.independent.co.uk arts entertainment theatre dance reviews carlos acosta akram khan and nitin sawhney sadlers wells london 1835318.html quote film sequences by nick hillel and yeast culture flash up vague philosophical statements . http www.guardian.co.uk music 2009 sep 17 extreme cello matthew barley . quote the models on screen will play in synch with me against live video mixing by the artist nick hillel . it s eerie and sometimes touching to see a virtual image doing something so human . http www.journal online.co.uk article 7360 the virtual cellist . quote visuals invite a hauntingly haptic engagement with the screen as abstract ballet dancers move majestically across a grey scaled live feed of matthew s performance as if lifted straight from a degas sketch . flashes of a south american shaman engulfed in swirling smoke inaugurate the poetics of the melting of screen into space into audience mediation creating an all engulfing entropic experience . http www.theartsdesk.com dance akram khan desh sadlers wells theatre quote this production looks as if it has cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to stage with its luxuriously liberal video animations by yeast culture http www.independent.co.uk arts entertainment classical features electronic nightmares on bluebeards battlements 2366466.html quote the film maker nick hillel creative director of the digital studio yeast culture is giving me a sneak peek at his projected visuals for b la bart k s one act opera http www.latimes.com entertainment arts culture la et 0623 sf symphony review 20120623 0 413770 . story quote a stunning simultaneous short circuiting of the ocular and auditory nerves http www.sfgate.com music article nick hillel directs bartok s bluebeard s castle 3650294.php quote nick hillel directs bartok s bluebeard s castle http www.theaterdogs.net 2012 06 20 sf symphony scales bluebeards castle quote images that even if they weren t literal or specific to the story evoked just the right emotion http www.ebar.com arts art article.php sec outthere & article 376 quote of film company yeast culture nitin sawney akram khan beastie boys who has created evocative imagery and unusual staging to help tell the story . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title yeast culture film company & oldid 700843178 categories film companies1999 establishments in the united kingdomcompanies based in camden navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in 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