Welcome to HaikuLife
Artist: Jim Kacian
Format: HaikuLife
Duration: 4:51
2022 HaikuLife Film Festival
The Haiku Foundation welcomes you to its eighth 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 (though none this year), 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
Sorry, nothing this year.
Free Format
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Zoe Grant & Ron C. Moss: Waterblaster
A video rengay (a first?) between Kiwi Zoe Grant and Aussie Ron C. Moss. -
Christopher Herold/Ron Moss: Ripples of Thought 3
A series of haiku written in response to each other's photographs, featuring Aussie poet Ron C. Moss and American poet Christopher Herold. -
Christopher Herold/Ron C. Moss: The Path
A series of haiku written to each other's photographs, featuring American poet Christopher Herold and Aussie poet Ron C. Moss. -
Claudia Coutu Radmore: Worlds Between Us
Claudia Coutu Radmore channels the world of Alrick Huebener speaking truth to power. -
Ron C.Moss/Michael Dylan Welch: Moving Mountains
Michael Dylan Welch adds his haiku to those of Ron C. Moss in a celebration of Moss's inspiring nature photography of his native Tasmania as well as New Zealand. Music by Steve Hodge. -
Pansolin - Fontanelli - Bini: 5 haiku Verzione Italiano
5 of Simone Pansolin's haiku from his book Pixels (in the original Italian) set to music by Simone Fontanelli and realized by flautist Antonella Bini. -
Ellen Peckham: Immersion and Emergence
The trailer announcing the gallery showing of haiga by Ellen Peckham at the Guttenberg Arts Space in New York. -
Pansolin - Fontanelli - Bini: 5 HAIKU
5 haiku from Simone Pansolin's book Pixels set to music by Simone Fontanelli and realized by flautist Antonella Bini.
Feature Format
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Chuck Brickley: Haiku Fellowship
Chuck Brickley addresses (virtually) the Haiku Poets of Northern California on the theme of fellowship, one of the chief by-products of the haiku life. -
Chuck Brickley: A Reading
Chuck Brickley is a Rivertown Poet, and this is his reading for the group in December 2021. -
Denise Fontaine-Pincince: Haiku Gifts the Ma Way
Denise Fontaine-Pincince shares some of the wonderful gifts and objects she has crafted featuring haiku in unusual settings. -
Masood Hussain/Gabriel Rosenstock: Buddha Died
Masood Hussain's evocative film captures elements of the sense of awakening caused by the departure of friends. Concept by Gabriel Rosenstock. Originally aired at the Athens Film Festival. -
Jim Kacian/Julie Schwerin: A New Resonance 12 Reading
This reading of the 12 volume in the New Resonance series features poets Jo Balistreri, Susan Burch, Jenny Fraser, Simon Hanson, Kristen Lindquist, Hannah Mahoney, Matthew Markworth, Lori A Minor, Matthew Moffett, Michael Nickels-Wisdom, Keith Polette, Bryan Rickert, Tom Sacramona, Robin Anna Smith, Mary Stevens, Debbie Strange, and Stephen Toft. -
Claudia Coutu Radmore: Worlds Between Us
Claudia Coutu Radmore channels the world of Alrick Huebener speaking truth to power. -
Jim Kacian: ba
Jim Kacian talks about the concept of ba, which is all haiku ever talks about.
Video Haiga
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Alexandru: Video Haiga
A collage of video haiga in natural settings by Romanian American poet Marius Alexandru. -
Towpath Haiku Society: Bonsai Home
The Towpath (Washington D.C. area) Haiku Society's annual video anthology. Video by Roberta Beary. -
Peter Hutton: On faith, lost and found
Two of several short meditations in haiku prepared by the poet Peter Hutton for his grandson. -
Peter Hutton: On the redeeming earth
Two of several short meditations in haiku prepared by the poet Peter Hutton for his grandson. -
Corine Timmer: Amusing
A playful animated short video haiga by Corine Timmer. -
Debbie Strange: Fade to Black
Debbie Strange presents a video of black and white photo haiga, with recitation. -
AZTEC CHRIST: WIRED NYLON LILIES
A provocative and unusual gathering of video haiga by AZTEC CHRIST. -
Dave Bonta: Motherboard
A video haiga featuring an original haibun by auteur Dave Bonta. -
Toni Piccini: Jazz Haiga
Toni PIccini weds his sublime photographic images with jazz haiku and the sonorous musical performances of Sandro Carta.
Student Films
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Life Changes: Video Haiga
Michael Batson’s video haiga based on haiku of Jim Kacian. From the haiga project of New Trier High School, supervised by John O’Connor. -
Silences: Video Haiga
Soham Bhutiani’s video haiga based on haiku of Lidia Rozmus. From the haiga project of New Trier High School, supervised by John O’Connor. -
Lunch Alone: Video Haiga
Daniel Cheskes’s video haiga based on haiku of Tom Clausen. From the haiga project of New Trier High School, supervised by John O’Connor. -
summer salt: Video Haiga
Patrick Heneghan’s video haiga based on haiku of Polona Oblak. From the haiga project of New Trier High School, supervised by John O’Connor. -
Tuning Piano: Video Haiga
Lucas Hilario-McCarey’s video haiga based on haiku of Regina Harris Baiocchi. From the haiga project of New Trier High School, supervised by John O’Connor. -
here where nowhere: Video Haiga
William Karr’s video haiga based on haiku of Ion Codrescu. From the haiga project of New Trier High School, supervised by John O’Connor. -
black and white: Video Haiga
Shea Kresia’s video haiga based on haiku of Scott Mason. From the haiga project of New Trier High School, supervised by John O’Connor. -
Broken and Unspoken: Video Haiga
Courtney Miller’s video haiga based on haiku of Roberta Beary. From the haiga project of New Trier High School, supervised by John O’Connor. -
Life’s Journey: Video Haiga
Sofia Serrano’s video haiga based on haiku of Carolyn Hall. From the haiga project of New Trier High School, supervised by John O’Connor. -
Peace: Video Haiga
Devan Weinstein’s video haiga based on haiku of Nikolay Grankin. From the haiga project of New Trier High School, supervised by John O’Connor. -
Walk of Life: Video Haiga
Daniel Angel’s video haiga based on haiku of Pravat Kuman Padhy. From the haiga project of New Trier High School, supervised by John O’Connor. -
The Way of the Ravens: Video Haiga
Caidyn Lowry’s video haiga based on haiku of Ron C. Moss. From the haiga project of New Trier High School, supervised by John O’Connor. -
automatic: video haiga
Sophia Amin’s video haiga based on haiku of Hifsa Ashraf. From the haiga project of New Trier High School, supervised by John O’Connor.
Long After: A Book Film
