Welcome to HaikuLife
Artist: Jim Kacian
Format: HaikuLife
Duration: 4:51
2016 HaikuLife Film Festival
The Haiku Foundation welcomes you to its second 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!
Free Format
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Santoka
This animé treatment of a moment in the life of Taneda Santoka was produced by Tokyo University of the Arts. -
Amazement of the ordinary: Life through a Haiku Lens
Alan Summers offers a TEDx talk on the role haiku can play when engaging with the world around us. Filmed in Bradford on Avon in 2015. -
Marry Me, haiku performance by Genie Nakano
Genie Nakano draws on her store of story, dance and gesture to bring her haiku fully alive. -
Golden Fan of Menopause, haiku performance by Genie Nakano
Genie Nakano draws on her store of story, dance and gesture to bring her haiku fully alive. -
a never ending furrow, a haiku film by Lars Granström and Vilhelm Backman
This evocative short reading of several of Granström’s haiku, read in Japanese by Haruko Sunaga and set to music by Backman against a vivid visual background by Konstantin Smirnov, is one of the most unusual pieces ever offered during HaikuLife. -
ICEandLIGHT, Haiku Painting by Maya Lyubenova
Maya Lyubenova pairs a series of her haiku with images, creating a stream of video haiga. In Bulgarian. -
ICEdrawINGs, Haiku Drawing by Maya Lyubenova
Maya Lyubenova pairs a series of her haiku with images, creating a stream of video haiga. In English. -
Red Line Haiku Film Poem, by Brian Kirk
Brian Kirk discovers life along Dublin’s Red Line in this evocative short film. Filmed by Zhu Bao, narrated by Brian Kirk, music by Igor Khabarov. -
WABI SABI, video haiga by Maya Lyubenova
Maya Lyubenova pairs her haiku to images and music to create a stream of video haiga. In English and Bulgarian.
Video Haiga
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Ancient Sandstone, video haiga by Ron C. Moss
A new video haiga from one of the pioneers in the genre, Ron C. Moss of Tasmania. -
The Haiku Foundation Video Haiga #12: daily commute, by Jim Kacian
This video haiga, shot during the poet's commute to work on a snowy morning, was created by Haiku Foundation founder and president Jim Kacian, who also invented the genre. Music by Nils Petter Molvær. -
Foggy Autumn Lake, video haiga by Brett Brady
Brett Brady sets his poem within the sumi-e painting of Ria Razzauti (who also filmed and edited this piece) and to the music of Michael Hoppe in this video haiga. -
mountain long, video haiga by Dietmar Tauchner
Dietmar Tauchner, one of the pioneers of this genre, offers this recent collaboration of poem and image. -
Ron C. Moss: Snow Falling
Ron C. Moss offers a triptych of haiku against the background of a Tasmanian snowfall in this video haiga. -
spring walk, video haiga by Dietmar Tauchner
Dietmar Tauchner, one of the pioneers of this genre, offers this recent collaboration of poem and image.
