Break the hood & Freedom fighter

Both micro movies ‘Freedom Fighter’ and ‘Break the hood’ are a Sir ja sir production. ‘Freedom Fighter’ is about a hero who saves the world in an unconventional way. In the second clip, ‘Break the Hood’, break dancers are taking over the city. ‘Break the hood’ won the first price at the 2007 O2 Mobile [...]

Imprisoned rappers

‘Imprisoned Rappers’ is the working title of a documentary about a group of five rapping young men, their everyday life behind bars and an alluring career in the music business. We escorted them for one day to their second concert at all. Tensions were high as this concert of all places should be in the [...]

Go up in smoke

‘Go up in smoke’ is a music video for the Frankfurt group Good Heart Boutique. Another joint project with the comic artist Christopher “Piwi” Tauber. For the shooting we used 20 years old vintage pro-VHS-cameras to get this unique lo-fi 80s music show look. It successfully fitted together with the rough garage sound of the [...]

Panzer

‘Panzer’ was the practical part of my BA dissertation in European Media Studies. It is a music video for a song of the same name of the Mediengruppe Telekommander. The theoretical component was an inventory control of music videos entitled “Machine guns in the picture stream – music videos and the war”. ‘Panzer’ montages hundreds [...]


About
This is the online portfolio for motion and design projects and related research of Nico Roicke. I'm a graduate of MA Communication Design, pathway Digital Media, at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Also I'm part of the motion design studios Sir ja sir and Buchstabenschubser.

Beside motion graphics (or motion design, if you prefer) I'm the co-founder of the fanzine and weblog Jackpot Baby! - New digital pop culture (all texts unfortunately in German language) and I write for Berlin's finest Webblog Spreeblick - Pop, Politics, Products & Positions (German again). Go and catch up some of my latest tweets on Twitter (English and German, it's really hard to tell) or take a glance at some of my Flickr pics and Vimeo vids.