Sarah Seené
Directing
Biography
Sarah Seené is a photographer and filmmaker who works with analog media (35mm, 120mm, Polaroid, Super8). Bringing together mainly portraits, her images focus on faces, bodies and the human being. The photographic material offered by the film has allowed her to develop a singular poetry, a dream that animates each of her series. Her work is inspired by the concept of resilience and the capacity to be reborn from ashes. Her photographs have been exhibited internationaly in solo and group shows. Her short films have been screened at various festivals in Europe and North America. She creates music videos and analog portraits of musicians in France and Quebec.
Known For
"Lumen" (meaning "light" in Latin) is a sensory film shot on Super-8 that portrays a young girl with oculocutaneous albinism. Despite the hypersensitivity caused by this genetic disease, the depigmentation of her skin and eyes gives her an extraordinary aura.
Lumen
On a film reel electrified by static charges, we meet five people who survived the impact of lightning.
The Visible Spectrum
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Il fait gris dans ta tête, tout à coup
Marie-Christine, who lost her sight some years ago, explores life in a particularly sensory way ,through her fingertips. Through her personal experience, she awaken her son's curiosity and sense of wonder about the beauty of the universe. Drawing from a constellation of highly textured analogue images and a rich tapestry of sound, Orbit journeys into the sensorial depths of Marie-Christine's memory, pondering the very essence of love and legacy.
Orbites
A self-portrait shot in Super8 depicting the sensorial chaos of living with permanent tinnitus as infinite waves.
Le silence a disparu
In Quebec, as everywhere around the world, the Spring of 2020 was drastically changed by the Covid 19 pandemic. I decided to make the most of this extraordinary period by putting the disruption caused to the season of rebirth into images in a short animated film. Using my scanner to animate an assortment of flowers gathered from my neighbourhood and objects from my daily life allowed me to cast a distanced and light-hearted eye at this anxiety inducing global situation. The black, rectangular surface of the scanner is the sole backdrop of the film, like a representation of our confinement within four walls.”