Benjamin Genissel's photostream

Photographer
Filmmaker (video)

Personal Films :
2003 : Regarding the night: experimental and poetical short film (3 min) / Festivals "5 jours tout courts" 2003 and "Les Inattendus" 2004, "Off the tracks #6 2011
2003 : Un bout (en train) de vie: documentary, portrait of one of my friend (50 min)
2003 : Dernier virage, début de partie: documentary about a theater actor (19 min)
2004 : A square view: poetical documentary about an urban place (11 min) / Festivals "L’étrange festival" 2005, "Prototype vidéo" 2006, "Guérinière" 2006, "Cinéma mon amour" 2007
2006 : My grand mothers: film portraits of my grand-mothers (26 min) /Projected many times in Normandy and Paris, France. Included in the program « Dear grand-parents » from the association La Petite marchande de films
2008 : Hirado, the island of the barbarians: film portrait of a japanese island (20min) / "Forum video Caen" 2009, Nekko institute February 2012
2011: Do you remember me?: narrative experimental short film in Taiwan / Proto & Cause 2011, World film festival of Bangkok 2012, Traverse vidéo 2012
2011: A Tokyo day: film portrait about one day in Tokyo / Screened for the exhibition "Love and cities" in March 2011 (Paris) and September 2011 (Normandy) , Nekko institute February 2012, at the Aubagne international festival March 2012.
web site: www.youtube.com/user/benjamingenissel

Exhibitions:
"Japan, as a passer-by/ Le japon, en passant : Portraits of japanese peoples in Japan"
March 2008 : University Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris)
June 2008 : Galery of MIE (Paris)
July 2008 : Cinema LUX (Caen)
March 2009 : Censier cultural center (Paris)
April 2009 : Louis Lumiere cultural center (Paris)
September 2009: Hattori japanese cultural center (Paris)
May 2010: La petite Rockette galery (Paris)

"Skins": collective exhibition
May 2009: festival "Belle photo" (Paris)

"Asia: Instants": portraits of Asian peoples from Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan (slide film)
September 2009: Cinema Lux (Normandy)

"The random color/ La couleur du hasard: 150 pictures from France"
September 2009: Cinema Lux (Normandy)
October 2009: Censier cultural center (Paris)
November 2009: Amandiers cultural center (Paris)
January 2010: 5 Caumartin cinema (Paris)
October 2010: Place des fêtes cultural center (Paris)

"Calcutta" (with Laurent Gaillardon)
January 2011: La Grange aux belles cultural center (Paris)
Février 2011: Côté Canal (Paris)
September 2011: Louis Lumière cultural center (Paris)
Juanuary 2012: Angèle Mercier cultural center (Paris)

"Love and cities: Tokyo and Taipei"
March 2011: La Grange aux belles cultural center (Paris)
September/ October 11: Lux movies theater (Normandy)
November 11: Deli Parisien for the festival: Rencontres photographiques du 10ème (Paris)

"Paysage de l'âme et du monde/ landscapes of the soul and the world" (with Norman Warnberg)
February 2011: Romilly sur Andelle Public library (Normandy)
March 2011: Marcilly sur Eure public library (Normandy)