Vegetative | Hannah Papacek Harper | Short Film Contest | 7th BEFF Babul Eco Film Festival
Channel: Babulfilms ngo
Date: 15/05/2023

Short film contest that is part of #BEFF Babul Eco Film Festival features eco films less than 5 minutes dealing with any aspect of Environment. This film deal with  experimental visual poem.
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Vegetative is a short visual poem; an experimental video which was created during the first Covid19 lockdown in spring 2020. This abstract piece plays with text and video and brings a dreamlike inner space into being. It explores the rapport toward nature and intimacy that we were forced to change abruptly. The lack of human contact and the search for osmosis with our surroundings gave time a different dimension. While all around us stood still, we also settled and aloud ourselves to grow slower with the budding spring. This video is a personal exploration of the body and the mind far from all other eyes. The need to get closer, to get past masks, to mask ourselves with nature, to fill our pale skin with what surrounds us became very present at that time. This was a moment when inner worlds were pulled out and set loose but mental states were also tested. This sensorial visual exploration talks about the shades of mental illness and depression, about how most of us were confronted with these feelings during the lockdown. It plays with colours, with bodies, with nature and with the symbols of social distancing which were omnipresent in everyday life. There was a need everywhere, to document, to capture and to show ourselves through screens. To remember what that instant was like, how all of us connected and wonder about if the world would still go on as before. We all dreamt of escaping into the sky, slipping into the foliage and merging with the ground.
Director Biography - Hannah Papacek Harper

Hannah is pursuing a career as a camera assistant on long and short fiction, music videos and commercials. Having trained as a Steadicamer she has been practicing it since 2019. At the same time she co-directs and shoots Video Dance projects. This leads her to the creation of short documentaries around the intervention of a dance company in a center for people with disabilities in 2020 in Normandy. Her creations, as well as her photos, are shown during the exhibition/installation performance 'Vu d'ici ! // Aller voirailleurs...' at the Tourouvre au Perche museum from September to December 2020, as well as in Falaise during a residency in September 2020. Her documentary photography has been exhibited on three other occasions, notably in the form of an artist's book at the Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris in 2017.

https://www.hannahpapacekharper.com/ 

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