Isabelle Françaix Week of 30th April to 17 May

Words and images, images and words. For Isabelle Françaix these two modes of expression have always been inexorably linked throughout her career. An illustrator, photographer, filmmaker and writer, Françaix has worked predominantly in the classical and contemporary music sector for publishers and orchestras including Symétrie and the European Contemporary Orchestra (ECO).

Describing her film “Enclosed” she said: « Within (the palm of) a woman another woman…From the light comes a shadow, and from the shadow comes the light. It is the sensation that at each moment, within our hands, dances and resonates a new possibility. Provided that our hands open freely. My daughter was dancing and I seized the moment to film her. Everything is born from that fleeting moment.”

Pietr Dvarrack Week of 30 April to 17 May

I am a photographer, visual artist, and since 2010, I have also began working as a videographer focusing on nature and the body. My films are of a  contemplative nature, without narrative, and are shot with a simplicity of means, favouring the expectation of the event, an image that provokes another by poetic digression. My photographic work largely takes place in public places and in the countryside.

Juliette Vergori Week of 30 April to 17 May

Anna Miñana Week of 16th to 27th April

My name is Anna Miñana and I am from Barcelona.  I got into film thanks to my family who are big cinema fans and work in TV. As a result, I was always around cameras, or watching movies. Since I was little I was always trying to find what I would like to do as career but I could never decide between music, painting and photography. I loved it all and didn’t want to give up on any. So I found cinema which combines them all.

Sebastian Søgård Week of 2nd April to 13th April

I was born in Oslo in 1990, studied film at the University of Oslo, European Film College in Denmark and Stockholms Film School in Sweden. Since graduating in 2012 I have been working in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, as an assistant director, as well as directing a lot of music videos and commissioned work and my own short films, first in Sweden as part of the group Gemensam Film and currently a part of the film and art group 73collective(.net), based in Copenhagen. In 2013 I travelled to Tanzania as an assistant director on the documentary short « Shadow Fighters » . The film won « Best East African Documentary Award » at Zanzibar International Film Festival and was nominated at over 15 other festivals around the world. My new short film « Pene dyr » is screening in the national short film competition at the 41st Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad this June.

The short video « O » for Cinehaiku is a combination of a few memories; the first from a yet unrealised project I filmed in Hampi in 2014, the second shot was made by my friend at the same location and the third is part of an ongoing project on a Golden Eagle trainer in Croatia. The sound is also recorded in India.

Daniel Lezama Week of 19th March to 30th March

Born in Mexico, Daniel Lezama has worked as a director of photography on several projects since 2011, including the short films « Dedicatoria », « Amores », « Acaso su Silencio ». He has also co-directed the documentaries including « Bajo un Nuevo Sol ». He is currently completing his documentary master’s thesis at the International School of Film and TV (EICTV) in Cuba entitled « Campoamor ».

Jeremy Ledda Week of 5th March to 16th March

Jeremy is a photographer, filmmaker and musician based in Chalon-sur-Saône, in France, where he also works as a sound and video technician at the Media Art School. He describes his Cinéhaïku in three sentences: The end of a frantic race. His dreams are without desire. In a new playground.

 

Tarryn Doherty Week of 19th February to 2nd March

I am a writer/director from South Africa. I studied film and screenwriting and graduated in 2016. Since then I have been freelancing and creating as much as possible. I predominantly enjoy making poetic shorts and playing with experimental genres. I am fascinated by how film can be used as a harbinger of conceptual meaning-making.

My cinehaiku is a display of the simple concept of a fleeting moment. It is here and then it is gone. Like birds or a gentle zephyr, a perfectly timed wave or a stranger turning their back.

Chrystel Egal Week of 5th February and 16th February 2018

A photographer, video maker & writer, Egal describes her work as « an autobiography open to the other » to decipher, tackling existential questions that she tries to answer. She says of her Cinéhaïku:

« A metaphor of destiny.
A skate-boarder surfing between light and shade.
Wave, curve, wave. »

Valentin Curtet Week of 22nd January to 2nd of February 2018

Valentin was born in 1988, in the south of France. He went to an Art School from 11 to 18 years old where he learned theatre, contemporary dance, flying and swing trapeze and juggling. He wrote and performed in four theatre plays with the french company La Chifonnie. After living in Ireland for few years, he returned to France to study audio-visual editing between 2011 and 2014. Since 2015, he made short films (Nuit sans lune, which deals with domestic violences), and work on video clips, short programs and films as director, camera operator or director of photography.

Antonin Duhoux Week of 8th to 19th of January 2018

Ben Middlekauf Week of 25th December to 5th of January 2018

As a New York based filmmaker, my passion is to bring visions to life. My Cinéhaïku was inspired by my love for warmth on cold, dark days. I love to focus in on little details that others might glance over: the crease of a book, the steam from my drink, the waves a raindrop generates. Together, these little details can generate a powerful emotion.

Micah Raburn Week of 11th December to 22nd of December 2017

My name is Micah Raburn and I have a strong interest in film and Asian art. I spent my early college career taking art classes, teaching myself how to illustrate, and doing research on Japanese Ukiyo-e prints and Asian history in general. I discovered my passion for film in my second semester at San Jose State University and am currently a film major with a art history minor.

My Cinéhaïku is based on a painting, called « The Universe », by the Japanese Zen Buddhist monk Sengai. The rectangle border represents the objective world, the triangle border represents humans, and the circle border represents the Dharmakaya or ultimate reality. Each shot further visualizes the meaning behind their borders. The grass imitates how humans tend to keep their heads down and focused on earthly matters, the girl looking up shows how humans can change their perspective, and the upward shot of the gingko tree displays how humans can use the natural forces of this world to gain a since of purpose beyond gathering material possessions.

Olatz Perez Week of 27th November to 8th of December 2017

I am audiovisual filmmaking student in the Basque Country. When I was 13 years old my parents gave me a camera and I began taking photos. I have loved films and writing since I was a child and I have always known I wanted to study something related to this. Regarding the film, I had an idea about what haikus communicated to me, so I prepared the screenplay and began to film it with the help of a classmate, who is the actor of the film. I wanted to convey the power of the human and the relationship between it and nature, so I decided to use a red rose as a symbol of nature.

Erika Nieva da Cunha Week of 13th October to 24th of November 2017

Constance Boulay Semaine du 30 Octobre au 10 Novembre 2017

J’ai 30 ans et je suis artiste plasticienne autodidacte. La vidéo est mon médium favori. car elle est instantanée. J’aime enregistrer des moments de vie que je trouve beaux parce qu’ils sont éphémères. La poésie visuelle est au cœur de ma démarche artistique, tout comme l’impermanence des choses.

Benjamin Choiselat-Meyohas Semaine du 16 au 27 Octobre 2017

J’ai 20 ans et je suis étudiant en cinéma à Paris. J’ai toujours été intéressé par l’écriture et la mise en scène ce qui a confirmé le milieu dans lequel j’aimerais travailler. Je me destine à la réalisation de vidéo, de film d’essai, de performance etc dans le monde de l’art contemporain. Les poèmes haïkus m’ont toujours touchés par leur simplicité si sincère et j’ai trouvé très intéressant d’utiliser leur forme et de retranscrire l’ essence de ces poèmes japonais à travers le cinéma.

Raphaël Venayre Semaine du 2 au 14 octobre 2017

I’m a student in France, a big fan of cinema and video, i made a lot of video alone or with my Friends, just because i love it, it’s my passion.