HaikuLife 2017
Welcome to HaikuLife
Artist: Jim Kacian
Format: HaikuLife
Duration: 4:51
2017 HaikuLife Film Festival
The Haiku Foundation welcomes you to its third annual HaikuLife Haiku Film Festival. You will find a wide range of treatments of film treatments, all with haiku serving a central role in their inspiration and production. We offer these films in several formats: HaikuLife format, free format, feature format, and video haiga. This introductory film tells you about the origins of HaikuLife, and how to create your own video in this format. We look forward to sharing your work in the next HaikuLife Haiku Film Festival!
HaikuLife Format
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13 Ways of Looking at a Haiku, by Jim Kacian
13 Ways of Looking at a Haiku is a series of permutations based on an original theme by Jim Kacian, created for the HaikuLife Haiku Film Festival 2017, hosted by The Haiku Foundation. -
anagram mix, by Jim Kacian
Building on his own 13 Ways to Look at a Haiku, Jim Kacian offers an all-anagram version. Created for the HaikuLife Haiku Film Festival 2017, part of International Haiku Poetry Day hosted by The Haiku Foundation.
Free Format
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Chanokeburi HaikuLife 2017, a presentation by Lucia Fontana
Lucia Fontana greets us from Italy and offers a selection of her video haiga. Created for the HaikuLife Haiku Film Festival 2017, a part of International Haiku Poetry Day, hosted by The Haiku Foundation. -
Photo Haiku 2016
Radu Serban, Romania’s ambassador to Japan, shares images of his home away from home intermingled with the emotions felt in being away from his actual home. -
The Poetry of Birds, by Debbie Strange
Debbie Strange helps us enter into the music and language of birds with this slideshow reading of her haiku. -
the rainy season, by Jim Kacian
A video celebrating the winning entry from the International Haiku Contest “One Thousand Cranes” held in conjunction with the International Festival “Origami Peace Tree” in 2008 in Romania. Presentation by Corneliu Traian Atanasiu. -
Haiga 2016, by the Shoshin Haiku Circle
A collection of haiga rendered in 2016 by the Shoshin Haiku Circle led by Maya Lyubenova, in English and Bulgarian, set to the blues . . .
Video Haiga
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Apology, by Stella Pierides
A short free form haiku film by Stella Pierides, created for HaikuLife Haiku Film Festival 2017, part of International Haiku Poetry Day hosted by The Haiku Foundation. Edited by Rob Ward. -
Plexiglass, by Stella Pierides
A short free form haiku film by Stella Pierides, created for HaikuLife Haiku Film Festival 2017, part of International Haiku Poetry Day hosted by The Haiku Foundation. Edited by Rob Ward. -
The Feather Fan, by Stella Pierides
A short free form haiku film by Stella Pierides, created for HaikuLife Haiku Film Festival 2017, part of International Haiku Poetry Day hosted by The Haiku Foundation. Edited by Rob Ward.
