Artist and photographer Reto Halme has created a five-minute experimental video titled Artemida Unrest. It combines visual and auditory elements and immerses the viewer in a unique experience. Reto Halme's long, intense, and brilliant career in the world of visual art is well known, and this work represents a much-anticipated twist.

A deep conversation on Artemida Beach, Athens, inspired the artist to create the video. All scenes, except the dance portion—which was recorded in a Berlin studio—were filmed on Artemida Beach, Athens.

Reto Halme does not separate the sound from the video at any point, but rather uses a wide range of short images and videos superimposed on top of each other and repeated throughout the duration of the music. The colour palette consists of different shades of grey contrasted with shades of yellow and purple. It resembles the colours of an X-ray, in which some colour can be seen at specific moments: a kaleidoscopic attraction of images that generates an intense and captivating space.

The sound is achieved by mixing several styles, although it does not strictly adhere to any of them. It combines dub techno and drum and bass through Ableton. The dancer's breathing contrasts with the rest of the video content and creates a feeling of tension or unease.

"When I watch it (the final track), it triggers something uneasy, despite the fact that its very pleasantesthetically” “What is see as an artist, friend, person conveying the impression of unsettling atmosphere in pictures captured during the moments spent together.”

Athena Pontikou, dancer of the video.

Reto Halme drew inspiration from his own work as a VJ (visual DJ) and went a step further by overlaying videos to the beat of the music. He used programs like Resolume and TouchDesigner, without using artificial intelligence except to replace Google's work.

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Video, song and editing.- Reto Halme.

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Athena Pontikou.

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Berlin, Germany.

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Reto Halme was born in Helsinki, Finland. He is a photographer and multimedia artist with an early connection to photography, influenced by his architect father and his visual arts teacher mother. He began developing his skills primarily through self-study.

In the early 1990s, Halme began his career in fashion photography in Madrid, amidst the city's awakening to modernity, developing work focused on the female body and its architectural context.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, he moved to London and later to New York, where he spent about seven years at Greenpoint Studio in Brooklyn, capturing urban nightlife, the subway, and spontaneous movement.

His personal journey continued with his arrival in Los Angeles (in the early 2000s): a period of photographing deserts, highways, and beaches, accompanied by the impact of 9/11, which influenced him to create a more cinematic style, accentuated by a passion for travel.

Between 2009 and 2013, she returned to Europe, spending time again in Madrid and Barcelona before settling in Berlin, where she continues to reside.

Her work is distinguished by its blend of sensuality with a somber atmosphere, often using the urban nightscape as a backdrop.

Halme understands fashion photography as a way to capture key fragments of the present moment and reality. In her work, which encompasses video, cinematic-style photography, and visual music sets, she seeks authenticity and captures nocturnal energy and urban textures through a cinematic lens. She has explored the layering of videos to the rhythm of music, drawing inspiration from her work as a VJ (visual DJ).

New York Fashion Stories - TV documentary about Reto's work in 2001.

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Published on: September 6, 2025
Cite:
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA, IRENE ÁLAMO MARTÍN
"Anything but indifference. Artemida Unrest by Reto Halme" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/anything-indifference-artemida-unrest-reto-halme> ISSN 1139-6415
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