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 Stephen has made over a dozen short experimental and animation films that have screened at numerous festivals. |
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Stephen van Vuuren, known as stephen v2 in his local indie community, is a filmmaker, musician, photographer and ubergeek. He grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa and Knoxville, Tennessee. Despite being raised in a religious sect that forbade movies, television and pop music, Stephen still managed to developed passions for still photography, space, music and storytelling.
He devoured every book he could find and he first read about Saturn and Titan in Carl Sagan’s «Cosmos». The idea of sending a spacecraft to Saturn, landing a craft on the mysterious moon of Titan filled him with dreams of being an astronaut. His dad bought him a manual 35mm camera and his love of creating images began.
Years later, immersing himself in all the movies he had missed as a child, he watched Kubrick’s «2001» and felt the call to filmmaking. After the adventures of film schools in Tennessee, California and North Carolina, he spent years pursuing careers in technology, graphics and corporate IT. Stephen returned to filmmaking in 1999. |
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Embracing the digital revolution, Stephen has made over a dozen short experimental and animation films that have screened at numerous festivals and in cyberspace. He works doing freelance digital video production & motion graphics and began a pioneering passion in manipulating still images into full motion, culminating in a short «Crisp Yellow Flowers» made entirely of still images which has lead directly to «Outside In».
In 2004, Cassini arrived at Saturn barely noticed by the world. Both exulted by the stunning images and disappointed by the lack of interest, Stephen committed to finding a way to make a film that showcased the incredible beauty of Saturn, while exploring the reasons why most people know so little about it.
He lives in Greensboro, NC USA with his musician/artist wife Marie and two cats. |
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