Welcome to HaikuLife
Artist: Jim Kacian
Format: HaikuLife
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2020 HaikuLife Film Festival
The Haiku Foundation welcomes you to its sixth 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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Write Your Own Death Haiku
Terri L. French leads us on an informative and enjoyable guide to penning our final words in haiku. -
Lit Candles
Victor Ortiz convenes 35 poets who offer their favorite haiku of solace for troubled times. -
Haiku in a Primary School
Toni Piccini introduces grade-school children in Italy to the joys of haiku and haiga. -
first rains
A series of Kala Ramesh’s haiku set to dance. -
How I Found My Voice
Haiku North America 2019 featured a New Resonance Haiku Community Reading, in honor of the release of the 11th volume in a series that began in 1999. All 185 New Resonance poets to date were represented, and those in attendance read their own work. -
Reading Fred and Ginger
Elizabeth Crocket performs a reading from her 2016 chapbook not like Fred and Ginger. -
HNA 2019 Readings
Many of the participants of Haiku North America 2019 read from their recent books. This lengthy film presents nearly all of them. -
rosenstock+swoon 7painters
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granstrom backman takingthenighttrain
Feature Format
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Haiku Poem, Haiku Mind
Professor Richard Gilbert gives an analysis of trends in contemporary haiku based on his most recent book, Poetry as Consciousness, at Haiku North American 2019. -
Crossing the Pond
Dave Bonta pieces 30 of his short video haiga into a single film, on a wide range of topics. -
Turtlerock of Ages
Scott Mason explores the life and haiku career of one of the great haiku poets of our time, Peggy Willis Lyles. Filmed at Haiku North American 2019. -
The Next Step
A film presentation of a discussion between haiku poets Lee Gurga and Jim Kacian on the next steps forward for haiku in terms of personal practice, community contributions, and genre vision. Filmed at Haiku North America 2019, on August 9 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Video Haiga
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Daily Enso
an’ya (poems and art) teams up with Richard St. Clair (music) for this video haiga sequence, produced by peter b. and created for HaikuLife 2020. -
Pandemic Time
Dave Bonta’s take on the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Sea Levels
Dave Bonta rambles across broken coastal landscapes in this video haiga which is also a plea for better ecological understanding and treatment. -
Self-Quarantine
Dave Bonta gives us a look at how his life has been altered by the current pandemic. -
imperfections
Ron C. Moss pairs his haiku with the stunning wilderness photographs of Martin Hawes in this photo haiku sequence. -
noir
Stella Pierides offers what has become a specialty of hers, a video haiga montage featuring haibun. Animation by Rob Ward. -
The Other Side of Silence
Debbie Strange features several of her poems in this photo haiku sequence, created for HaikuLife 2020.