Selected presentations, screenings, and installations.
Grida
Lisbon, Portugal
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2023
An immersive installation presenting Living Memories, Through large-scale projections surrounding the space, the works create an environment where viewers are invited to pause and inhabit the moment. The installation uses repetition, spatial rhythm, and a restrained visual language to draw attention to micro-movements that often go unnoticed. As the images loop and evolve, the space becomes a quiet cinematic environment that transports viewers into contemplative scenes drawn from Japan.
Julia Staudach, MA
Linz, Austria
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2026
Silent Prayer explores the quiet space between presence and reflection, where stillness becomes a form of devotion. Now held by the Fransisco Carolinum museum as part of their digital art collection, the work invites viewers to pause and listen to what silence holds.
BeComing Art
Jeju Island, South Korea
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2025
A large-scale architectural projection presented as part of Moments Between Stillness. The installation transforms the rigid surface of the building into a living canvas where water, light, and slow gestures unfold across the façade. The work explores the contrast between permanence and ephemerality. The strength and geometry of the architecture frame the softness and fluidity of the imagery, allowing the building itself to become part of the composition. Through this dialogue between structure and motion, viewers experience fleeting moments suspended within the monumental scale of the space.
Artpoint
Paris, France
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2024
Presented within the architectural interior of Tour First in La Défense, this installation integrates Living Memories into the vertical flow of the building. Towering digital totems extend the works across multiple floors, transforming transitional spaces into moments of quiet observation. Within the environment of glass, stone, and steel, the moving images introduce rhythm, light, and human presence. As viewers pass through the building, the works appear like windows into distant places, briefly immersing the audience in scenes where everyday life unfolds with cinematic stillness.
Selected interviews, features, and collaborations.
ZEISS
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2025-2026
In Tokyo at night, Ilan Derech moves through the city guided by a single intention: to compose his story. With the ZEISS Otus ML 1.4/35, fleeting encounters become cinematic moments. Framing becomes choice. Perspective becomes narrative. Light becomes memory. Every decision shapes time. What remains in the frame. What falls away. Where one chooses to stand. Step into the night. See with intention. Compose your story.
ZEISS
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2023-2024
For Ilan Derech, mobility is movement through time as much as space. Traveling alone with his camera, he observes the pulse of urban life where footsteps, transport, light, and architecture converge in fleeting alignments. Rather than simply documenting motion, he explores how it feels, how it repeats, and how it disappears. In cities like London, movement becomes atmosphere. The street unfolds as choreography, where stillness and flow coexist within the same frame.








