Michel Banabila
Sound artist and musician Michel BANABILA (1961, Netherlands) has been active since 1983. Banabila works regularly with other artists and filmmakers. His co-directed work Crowds premiered at IFFR 2015.Â
Filmography
Michel Banabila at IFFR
Never Let Go
Dance film about the fatal relationship between a man and a woman.
8'
Netherlands
IFFR 2005
Vlucht van de valk
Unorthodox dance film about a woman, a butler and a falcon, against the background of spectacular beautiful architecture.
19'
Netherlands
IFFR 2006
Letting Go
An unusual experiment by a landscape photographer. What does Rotterdam look like through the eyes of a pigeon?
9'
Netherlands
IFFR 2012
Crops
Stop-motion film with images from Google Earth about irrigation processes in the United States. Hypnotising sound and images.
4'
Netherlands
IFFR 2013
Crowds
This rousing video shows the essence of crowd mentality, the fury and the ecstasy; the visceral thrill of being part of something bigger than yourself.
6'
Netherlands
IFFR 2015
Playground
American football is played on rectangular fields, 120 yds long and 160 ft wide. A battle between nature and culture, between organic grass and artificial turf.
3'
Netherlands
IFFR 2015
Tijd en plaats, een gesprek met mijn moeder
A film about the melancholy of reconstruction. The story of the filmmaker's mother told in an unexpected, compassionate and visually inventive way.
35'
Netherlands
IFFR 2015
Grid Corrections
When superimposing a rectangular grid on the surface of the earth, spherical deviations have to be fixed. After all, the grid has only two dimensions...
2'
Netherlands
IFFR 2017