Morgan Knibbe
In 2012, Morgan KNIBBE (1989, Netherlands) graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy with his short experimental film A Twist in the Fabric of Space. This critical film on overcommunication received immediate recognition from the Dutch film industry. In 2014, he made Shipwreck and Those Who Feel the Fire Burning. Both focus on the European refugee crisis in the Mediterranean area. Shipwreck won the Silver Leopard in Locarno.
Filmography
(all doc) A Twist in the Fabric of Space (2012, short), Shipwreck (2014, short), Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (2014), The Atomic Soldiers
(2017, short)
Morgan Knibbe at IFFR
Shipwreck
Dutch documentary maker witnesses the disaster with a ship full of refugees off the coast of Lampedusa. Surrounded by journalists he seeks his own means of filming.
15'
Netherlands
IFFR 2015
The Atomic Soldiers
A disturbing documentary concerning the soldiers present at ground zero during the American nuclear trials in the 1950s.
23'
USA
IFFR 2018
An Impossibly Small Object
In the maze of streets, parking lots and alleyways in Taipei, an eight-year-old girl enjoys herself late one evening with her kite. A photographer takes a picture of her. When he gets back home, it makes him think. Moving, beautifully filmed meditation about alienation, loneliness and the bond between photographer and subject.
100'
Taiwan
IFFR 2018