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Johan Kramer – Holy Mats

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Shot on 35mm by DP Katja van den Broeke, the film titled, Holy Mats, follows a tale of a Haiku master from Norway, Mats Matsen, who suffered a serious writer’s block, due to his self diagnosed “personal ice-age of his mind” till the moment his grandmother gives him a new hat. 

The film is shot and edited exactly in the same ordered structure as a real Haiku. This means it is arranged in three lines (chapters): the first one with five (words) shots, the second chapter with seven (words) shots and ending with five (words) shots.

A haiku is considered to be more than just a type of poem; it is a way of looking at the physical world and seeing something deeper, such as the very nature of existence, or in this case, eggsistence. 

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