Joanna Perez Nordahl is a Swedish award-winning director, dividing her time between London and Stockholm. Her music videos, short films, documentaries and commercials, as well as live performance pieces, have garnered her international recognition both, as a director and a visual artist. In 2016, Joanna received a double Swedish Grammy nomination for Music Video of the Year, and took home the grand prize for writing /directing the short film “Nothing But a Heartbeat”, a collaboration with pop act Say Lou Lou. Between 2013-2015, Joanna initiated and directed One Wish, an eight-episode documentary series for Swedish National Television, SVT.
For several years, Joanna has been also in tight collaboration with Norwegian choreographer Ludvig Daae, creating cinematic and interactive visuals for live performances. Their debut show, the virtual duet “MM” (2011) has toured in eleven countries. In the duo’s latest piece, “HYPERFRUIT” (2015), both Joanna and Ludvig are on stage as performers. The highly visual show deals with the Internet as an emotional tool and necessary evil in intimate communication and long distance relationships. HYPERFRUIT is currently touring internationally to great acclaim.
Joanna’s work has been shown/featured at: San Francisco International Dance Film Festival, Gothenburg International Film Festival, Moderna Museet, Tempo Documentary Festival, Amnesty International Short Film Festival, Music DOC New York, Novemberfestivalen, TranScreen: Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, Roygalan, GuiDance Festival, The Place London, Riksteatern Norway, Dansens Hus Oslo, Black Box Oslo, MDT Stockholm, Gessnerallé Zurich, Mousonturm Frankfurt, DanseHaus Di Milano, SVT, Bukowskis, Lunds Konsthall.