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projection, documentary, installation, film
photo by Dathan Brannon
Adam Larsen is a documentary filmmaker, projection artist, and designer based in Asheville, NC. His films include Undersung, which chronicles the experiences of caregivers for severely disabled family members, and Neurotypical, which explores autism from the perspective of autistic individuals and premiered on PBS's POV.
Adam’s projection art spans across a variety of media, including immersive installations and live performance design. Notable projects include A Worm's Eye View, a 360-degree experience for autistic audiences that premiered at the Common Senses Autism Festival and was later presented at the David Brower Center in Berkeley; Nebraska Flatwater, a 10-projector meditation on the Nebraska landscape at Gallery 1516 in Omaha; and The Dharma at Big Sur, a 12-projector installation set to John Adams’s composition, also at Gallery 1516.
In the realm of opera and symphonic performance, Adam has directed three semi-staged operas for the Houston Symphony—Bluebeard’s Castle, Oedipus Rex, and Salome—and conceptualized and crafted Let Me Freeze Again to Death by Missy Mazzoli for the Guggenheim's Works & Process series. He has also co-directed and edited Ellen Reid's Lumee's Dream at LA Opera and directed and edited three works for the Sun Valley Music Festival during the pandemic. Additionally, Adam created and designed Rainbow for the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, an immersive theatrical journey that blends simple science, ancient stories, and the emotional power of color to explore one of Hawaii’s most iconic symbols—the rainbow.
As a projection designer, Adam has contributed to over 200 productions in theatre, dance, symphony, and opera, collaborating with some of the leading voices in these fields. His diverse credits include Broadway’s LoveMusik (directed by Hal Prince), the world premieres of Corigliano's The Lord of Cries at Santa Fe Opera, Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at Opera Philadelphia, David Lang’s Prisoner of the State with the New York Philharmonic. Adam also designed The Gospel at Colonus (Athens, Edinburgh, Spoleto festivals), Esperanza Spalding's 12 Little Spells tour, and the world premiere of Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle at the Singapore International Festival. Other credits include Janáček’s From the House of the Dead at Canadian Opera; Bernstein’s Mass at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Lincoln Center; Pelléas et Mélisande at the Cincinnati Symphony; Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann at Hawaii Opera Theatre; Adams’s A Flowering Tree and Handel’s Agrippina at Opera Omaha; Foss’s Phorion with New World Symphony; Mascagni’s Iris at Bard Summerscape; Britten’s Peter Grimes, Bernstein’s On the Town, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, as well as all eight seasons of the SoundBox series at San Francisco Symphony.
Currently, Adam is developing The Pinecone, a mobile 360-degree projection venue designed to bring immersive cinematic experiences to new audiences.
Adam’s projection art spans across a variety of media, including immersive installations and live performance design. Notable projects include A Worm's Eye View, a 360-degree experience for autistic audiences that premiered at the Common Senses Autism Festival and was later presented at the David Brower Center in Berkeley; Nebraska Flatwater, a 10-projector meditation on the Nebraska landscape at Gallery 1516 in Omaha; and The Dharma at Big Sur, a 12-projector installation set to John Adams’s composition, also at Gallery 1516.
In the realm of opera and symphonic performance, Adam has directed three semi-staged operas for the Houston Symphony—Bluebeard’s Castle, Oedipus Rex, and Salome—and conceptualized and crafted Let Me Freeze Again to Death by Missy Mazzoli for the Guggenheim's Works & Process series. He has also co-directed and edited Ellen Reid's Lumee's Dream at LA Opera and directed and edited three works for the Sun Valley Music Festival during the pandemic. Additionally, Adam created and designed Rainbow for the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, an immersive theatrical journey that blends simple science, ancient stories, and the emotional power of color to explore one of Hawaii’s most iconic symbols—the rainbow.
As a projection designer, Adam has contributed to over 200 productions in theatre, dance, symphony, and opera, collaborating with some of the leading voices in these fields. His diverse credits include Broadway’s LoveMusik (directed by Hal Prince), the world premieres of Corigliano's The Lord of Cries at Santa Fe Opera, Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at Opera Philadelphia, David Lang’s Prisoner of the State with the New York Philharmonic. Adam also designed The Gospel at Colonus (Athens, Edinburgh, Spoleto festivals), Esperanza Spalding's 12 Little Spells tour, and the world premiere of Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle at the Singapore International Festival. Other credits include Janáček’s From the House of the Dead at Canadian Opera; Bernstein’s Mass at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Lincoln Center; Pelléas et Mélisande at the Cincinnati Symphony; Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann at Hawaii Opera Theatre; Adams’s A Flowering Tree and Handel’s Agrippina at Opera Omaha; Foss’s Phorion with New World Symphony; Mascagni’s Iris at Bard Summerscape; Britten’s Peter Grimes, Bernstein’s On the Town, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, as well as all eight seasons of the SoundBox series at San Francisco Symphony.
Currently, Adam is developing The Pinecone, a mobile 360-degree projection venue designed to bring immersive cinematic experiences to new audiences.
