Cinematography Showreel

Hi everyone!

I hope you're all doing great!

Lately, I've been working on my showreel, I was actually thinking of doing a director one since I aspire to become a director. However, I realized that I've been more involved in cinematography than directing these past three years, which is a bit weird but I guess I can do both (no so strange since I started by doing photography). 

Anyway, here is a condensed recap of what I have been up to these past three years, a showreel of my best work cinematography wise.

Hope you'll like it!

See you soon,

Lamia xx

Juliette Armanet - L’Amour en Solitaire

REMORSE a hungarian short film

Hi everyone!

I hope you're all doing well, even if for most of us exams are coming soon...
Recently, I've been working on a live portal project between my university in London and Ryerson university in Toronto. The brief was to make a proposal for an installation that could exist simultaneously in two designated public ‘storefront’ locations, and to somehow connect these two cities, which are thousands miles away. Our plan was to create a 3D abstract demonstrating two cities coming together. We wanted to build both a London and Toronto skyline made from multi-coloured plexiglass. Tiles would have come away from each structure and meet in the middle at a screen showing live feed from the opposite city. The tiles would have been covered in photographs that would have brought together elements of culture, history and identity from the different cities. Unfortunately, we've lost this competition but we were runners up, and that's not too bad. Anyway, I thought I would still share with you the video I made relating our experience working on the project:

Moreover, I've been working as a director of photography in a hungarian short film. Shooting in hungarian was absolutely fantastic! Such a great experience! This is the graduation film of one of my best friends at university and it's a sci-fi with heart and moral. It's set in a world where you have to pass a test to break into a higher social class, and in that set up, your only identification tool is your right thumb fingerprint. So, when Roland, the main protagonist, has his finger cut off by a group of envious people, his world collapses as he can't study to change social class... I don't wanna spoil this short film and I will hopefully soon be able to post it, but until then, here are some snapshots of the rough cut:

See you soon,

Lamia xx

Benjamin Clementine - Condolence

MANCHESTER - MADRID

Hi everyone!

I hope you're all doing well, even if it's been freezing in the UK lately!!
Recently I've been traveling to Manchester and Madrid, two cities that basically have nothing in common, especially the weather... Well, actually they're both well known for their famous football teams but since I'm not a huge fan of the game, I was not gonna point that out (but I did).
Anyway, I very much enjoyed my stay there and obviously took loads of pictures!!

Here are my favorite ones, you won't really be able to recognize the cities through the pictures but I didn't really want to showcase my tourist photo skills.

Enjoy!

See you soon,

Lamia xx

Selah Sue - Fear Nothing

MANTISSE

Hi everyone!

Happy New Year !!! Time passes by so fast....
I don't know if you remember that, but last year I was preparing a short film called MANTISSE. It came to an end last summer, though we had loads of problems sound wise and I am finally allowed to share it with you (as some festivals have very restrictive policies). It's a noir about 9 min long exploring how rhetoric can be used to change people's perceptions with a bit of a twist ending.

SYNOPSIS:

In a dark interrogation room, Mr Jangus is questioning the untameable Mrs Mantisse, who’s suspected for her husband’s murder. Mantisse is a sarcastic dark woman and it is hard to get anything from her. After several attempts to make her admit her crime, we discover their game and real intentions. This is also a satire on TV series interrogations as they always seems to go towards the same directions.

YOU CAN WATCH IT HERE ==> https://vimeo.com/168071296 

Hope you like it !!

See you soon,

Lamia xx

Chicago - Cell Block Tango

BLOOD ON THE LEAVES

Hi everyone!

Last week, I took some pictures and I thought I would share them with you. I hope you'll like them !!

I quite like the red version as well so I thought I would post it too. Let me know what you think!

TOMATO SOUP

Hi everyone!

I hope you're all doing well and enjoying the festive season! Last week, I made an experimental short film for my Audio-vision module. The task was to explore the dialogue between the image and the sound in a 1 to 3 min video. I tried to make an original statement with mine. I'm kind of denouncing war, representing it as an absurd tomato soup. But since it's an artistic piece, you can interpret it however you want! Enjoy!

I'm still a bit shocked over the attacks in Istanbul and Berlin, especially Berlin as I was there just two weeks ago... My short film is therefore quite current unfortunately.

BERLIN

Hi everyone!

I hope everything's going great for you and that you're enjoying the festive season!! 
Last week, I traveled to Berlin. I had never been to germany before and I was really surprised that it was a lot colder than London (maybe because the weather is dry there). 
Moreover, I thought people were quiet nice there, even if that's not the image most of us have of germans for some reasons. 

I only spent a few days in the city but it was definitely worth it and enough to get a glimps of the most important monuments. 
Plus, seeing in person the Berlin wall was even an emotional moment, I studied so much about it in high school, was almost surreal.
All in all, It was so rich historically, architecturally and culturally that I obviously took loads of pictures.  

See you very soon,
Lamia xx

Albert Mangelsdorff Quartet - Never Let It End