FILMOGRAPHY (selection)
Writer/Director/Cinematographer
"Life Underground". Interactive web documentary and immersive video installation about the connected lives of metro riders around the world. Ongoing production. Online since March 2018. Selected at SXSW Art Program 2018. Silver Award Videoshare Festival La Baule, France. Selected at Webfest Berlin Sept. 2018.
Trailer. Check the website
"In the Space Between" 2016 (5'46). When two strangers meet unexpectedly on a subway… they embark on a journey. Is it real? Is it a fantasy? Are their lives changed? Come along for the ride. This film was created during the 2016 Co-Laboratory Dance Film Workshop produced by Rapt Productions..
In collaboration with choreographer Deborah Slater. Watch
“Ayiti Mon Amour” 2016– 88' (Cinematographer) Feature narrative by Guetty Felin. Shot in Haiti. Three poetic stories in a small fishing village, set 5 years after the quake. Selected at the Toronto film festival (TIFF) and the San Francisco International Film Festival. It’s touring at many festivals around the world at this time. Trailer.
"Time for School", (Also cinematographer). 45 min. 2015, 2009, 2006 and 2003. A PBS New York WIDE ANGLE’s unprecedented, award-winning 12-year documentary project, Time for School visits seven classrooms in seven countries to offer a glimpse into the lives of seven extraordinary children who are struggling to get a basic education. Directed and shot the Benin segment (2003, 2006, 2009, 2015) and the India segment in 2006. Click for episodes: part 1, part 2. Interview of Herve Cohen
"Haiti at the Grand Palais". 2014. Codirector/DP/Editor. Shot in Haiti, Miami and Paris. A series of portrait of Haitian artists commissioned by the Grand Palais National Museum in Paris. Watch: The trailer of the exhibit. Check artist Mario Benjamin. Artist Guyodo. Artist Edouard Duval-Carrié
The Music of Time". 2011. Director/DP/Editor - Peru. A musical and scientific journey with a group of musicians, from the Andes to the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, to discover the greatest biodiversity in the world but also the fragility of the ecosystem. Directed and shot.
"First Steps...". 2010. Benin, Africa. The Ouidah International Center for Art and Music (Centre International d'Art et Musique de Ouidah, CIAMO) has opened in Benin, Africa, with a goal of providing art and music education to primary school children and teachers, and to offer professional development seminars to area artists. The first school of its kind in the country. Directed, shot and edited. Watch the film
"Closer to the Dream". 2008/09 (Also cinematographer). 55 min. and 102 min. a BelleMoon/AMIP/France5 Production. A journey inside the Obama movement through the inspiring stories of ordinary Americans. Check the promo/trailer.
"Visages d'Europe" ("Faces of Europe"), an Arte series – 2007 (Also cinematographer)- Antonio. 26 min. A traveling film projectionist in the south of Portugal, mad about cinema and Italian actresses and the films of Jacques Tati. - Serafina. 26 min. Given her charm and charisma, Serafina Izzo could have been a great Fellini actress, but instead lives amongst 3000 olive trees and produces one of Europe's best organic olive oils. Watch the excerpt 1 Watch the excerpt 2
"Paskal, en attendant les Anges" ("Paskal, waiting for the Angels"), (Also cinematographer).14 min, 2004. A Collectif 2004 Images production for a cultural exhibit "Haïti en Seine". Portrait of Paskal, an artist from Jacmel, Haiti. Watch the preview
"Maintenant ou Jamais, à l'école de la deuxième chance" ("Now or never, at the school of the second chance"), 52 min. 2002. France 5. The trials and tribulations of 5 young adults who have been given a second chance at education after having dropped out of school several years prior. Check the website.
"Paris, Mars 1999" (Also cinematographer). 24 min. The series “Paris, Mois par Moi”. TV5 (francophone international television consortium). In 1999, 12 filmmakers month by month, each one portraying, his own vision of the last year of the century in Paris. (Also videographer).
"Une Autre Vie..." ("Another Life") 57 min. 1996. (Also cinematographer). Planète, French documentary channel. An intimate film about the history and the exile of the Algerian Jews seen through the personal stories of Hervé Cohen's own family. (Also videographer)
"Les Minots du Panier", 49 min. 1995. (Also cinematographer). Planète. The gentrification of an immigrant neighborhood in Marseilles seen through the eyes and lenses of a group of children learning photography. Shown at the Lussas festival in France. (Also videographer).
"Coney Island, Paradis du New York Populaire", 12 min., 1995. France 3. The people who make America's oldest amusement park, the number one summer attraction in New York City for the most watched weekly televised documentary program "Faut Pas Rêver".
"Antonio Paradiso", 12 min. 1994, Betacam. France 3, "Faut Pas Rêver". Portrait of the last traveling film projectionist in Portugal.
"Electric Shadows", 26 min. 1993, 16 mm. Canal Plus. Three traveling film projectionists showing films to the peasants, in the Chinese provinces. Aired on several European channels and on ABC the Australian channel, distributed by Icarus Films in the US non-theatrical release. First prize in: Oberhausen Film Festival, Leipzig Film Festival, Germany, Estonian Film Festival, and Montecatini in Italy. Shown in Festival du Reel in Paris, Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, Sydney film festival, Margaret Mead, etc...
Check the presentation. Check the review
"Sikambano, the Sons of the Sacred Woods", 53 min. 1991, Betacam. ARTE. The rites of passage in a Diola village in Casamance, south Senegal, of a 28 year old soon to become a "Sikambano", an initiated man. Also aired on "Planète", NHK in Japan, TV de Catalunya in Spain. Special mention at the Jean Rouch Festival in Paris, selected by the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York and Festival dei Popoli in Florence, Italy.
CINEMATOGRAPHER
"Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool" - 2019 - Acclaimed documentary by Stanley Nelson – Sundance, Grammy Awards Nomination for Best Music Film.
"Ayiti Mon Amour" - 2015 - by Guetty Felin. A feature narrative shot in Haiti, with mostly non actors. 3 interweaved stories located in a fishing village, 5 years after the quake. In post production. watch excerpts.
"Hairdressers" - 2014 - by Renaud Cohen. For French TV. A series of encounters immigrant hairdressers and their clients in Paris. These little very inexpensive beauty parlors are spreading all over the city. Their owners, immigrants mainly from North Africa but also Sri Lanka and India, seeking a better life in France, use their skills and traditional know-how to execute well performed haircuts, while engaging conversation with their clients about their countries and so much more...
"The city that did not exist" for France 2 tv. 2013. By Laurent Le Gall. A film about the Burning Man community.
"Seed Stories - Paraguay Peach" - 2012 - by Paul Austin. Austin Advisory Group. The new aroma of a special Paraguay peach, cultivated in the fields of Catalunya, Spain and used by Robertet, a family owned fragrance and flavor company.
Watch the film - Password: paraguay
"Black Rock Cityzen" - 2012 - by Laurent Le Gall. A 90 min film about "Burning Man", an annual event in Nevada and its impact in the world.
"Don't Give Up the Ghost", a feature length film directed by Jean-Louis Milesi. For pictures and update, visit the website.
"Broken Stones" - 2011 - By Guetty Felin. A 52 minutes documentary fllm about the majestic cathedral of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, that collapsed during the earthquake. A outlook on the reconstruction of the country and of the Haitian soul. For French Television KTO tv. Watch the trailer
"Edutopia videos". Collaboration with Edutopia, a George Lucas Foundation that promotes innovation in education (Edutopia.org), as a cinematographer on short films about innovative schools. Watch video 1, video 2, video 3, video 4
"Room to Breathe", a film by Russell Long about the experiment of mindfulness meditation in 2 middle school classrooms in San Francisco. Shot from March to June 2011. Visit the website
"Containment", by Robb Moss and Peter Galison. USA 2010/2011. Shot in New Mexico and West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia. A documentary about the future of nuclear waste. Website.
"Amazon Gold", by Reuben Aaronson. USA 2010. Shot in Peru . Watch the trailer
"In case I win the Golden Palm", by Renaud Cohen. Fiction film, 2009/2010. Shot with the Red Camera.
"Rokia Traoré, voice of a new generation", by Laurens Grant. Grantman production USA 2005. Shot in Paris and Senegal.
"The Dreamers of Arnhem Land". 45 min. 2004. ARTE. Documentary by Christopher Walker. Shot in the Arnhem territory, North of Australia. Watch the excerpt
"Young, Muslim and French". 45 min. 2004. For « Wide Angle » PBS (New York) and France2. Shot in Paris. Check the website and video.
"DERRIDA" , by Amy Ziering Kofman and Kirby Dick - Second camera on the Paris shoot. 2001.
"Pari Métis", by Elsie Haas. 13x13 min. documentary series. TV5. 1999-2000. Shot in Paris, New York, Mauritius Island, Ivory Coast. Portrait of artists such as Toshi, Waziz Diop, Michèle Stephenson, Were Were Liking...
"Harold Singer, Keep The Music Going". 58 min. 1999, by Guetty Felin. "Muzzik" channel and Planète. Paris. Watch the excerpt.
Videographer for the Steven Spielsberg’s Shoah Visual History Foundation. 1997/1998. Testimonies of the survivors of the holocaust. New York.
PHOTO/SOUND/MULTIMEDIA
Vwa Fanm (Women's voices). 2009 - Multimedia project (Photo-Sound-Internet), with the Knight Center for International Media - University of Miami. Creative director and editor. Organized a workshop for Haitian women migrants in Dominican Republic, so they could learn how to use photography and sound to tell their stories, as a tool to empower themselves. Check the Website.
DOCUMENTARY EDITOR
"Haiti at the Grand Palais". 2014. Codirector/DP/Editor. Shot in Haiti, Miami and Paris. A series of portrait of Haitian artists commissioned by the Grand Palais National Museum in Paris. Watch: The trailer of the exhibit. Check artist Mario Benjamin. Artist Guyodo. Artist Edouard Duval-Carrié
Broken Stones - 2011 - By Guetty Felin. A 52 minutes documentary fllm about the majestic cathedral of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, that collapsed during the earthquake. A outlook about the reconstruction of the country and of the Haitian soul. For French Television KTO tv. Watch the trailer
Life in the Balance - 2011 - a 20 minutes version of the documentary about the gold miners in the Peruvian Amazon forest.
A Soapbox in Haiti - 2010/2011 - by Scott Kirschenbaum - 2010/2011 - Editor and Creative Advisor. A speaker series to give voice to the unheard population of Haiti as they express themselves on the devastating quake of Jan. 2010 and the future for their country. Broadcast on various Haitian television networks and life commemorative screening events on Jan. 12th 2011.
Check Website
