John Haptas

Tokyo Waka

Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas

The portrait of a city: ancient yet constantly remaking itself. A poem in images: stillness, patterns, urban motion. And in words: a tofu seller, a homeless woman, a Buddhist priest, contemplating nature, the metabolism of their city, mortality. And 20,000 crows, unruly avatars of the natural world, sardonically observing it all.

Life Overtakes Me

Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas

Henry Ascher, Nadja Hatem

Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.

Underground Zero

Eva Ilona Brzeski, Paul Harrill

A collection of shorts made by various directors in response to 9/11.

Filmmakers Unite (FU)

Alan Berliner, Eva Ilona Brzeski

Empire of the Moon

Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas

EMPIRE OF THE MOON wryly deconstructs the experience of being a tourist. Paris, gorgeously photographed in black-and-white, is the setting for cultural explorations ranging from the mundane to the sublime, as visitors trek from icon to icon, snapping the same photos, climbing the same steps and at times experiencing the transformative wonder they came to find.