Haiku #1

Aeon

2004

Dealing heavily with perceptions of time, Aeon documents the urban cityscape as Wellington transforms through a zen-influenced eternal cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth within a 24-hour period.

Owl Gets in Your Eyes

1994

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

My Neighbors the Yamadas

1999

The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that range from the humorous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little conflicts, problems, and joys in their own way.

FALL

2023

circles

2014

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

Monks

2016

A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum.

Eternal Return

2022

A poet and a spirit have an ongoing deal: Haiku for life.

Winter Days

2003

Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

1935

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.

Four Haikus

2024

Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and transcendental Japanese poems known as “Haiku”.

I Imagine a Text that Changes

2020

A haiku about a window and a woman.

Love Is Five Seven Five

2005

A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.

Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop

2021

After meeting one day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.

Black Power is Green Power

2022

A Year in Notes and Numbers

2017

A year’s worth of to-do lists confronts the unavoidable numbers that are part and parcel of an annual visit to the doctor. The quotidian and the corporeal mingle and mix. Family commitments, errands and artistic effusions trade places with the daunting reality of sugar, cholesterol, and bone.