Haikus and hot heads
Johan Kramer’s sweetly surreal short film reveals how a poet’s warming hat unleashes the creativity from his hitherto too-cool cranium.
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Credits
powered by
- Production Company Holy Fools
- Director Johan Kramer
- Production Company Chelsea
- Color/Post Production Ambassadors
- Sound FC Walvisch
- Producer Defne Anit
- Producer Julia Oosterwegel
- DP Katja van den Broeke
- Producer Erik Mertens
- Executive Producer Frank de Kok
- Executive Producer Collin Maas
- Writer Johan Kramer
- President/Owner/Executive Producer Lisa Mehling
- Executive Producer Mel Fong
- Editor Kevin Whelan
- Colorist Amy Besate
- Graphic Designer Maria Walnut
Credits
powered by
- Production Company Holy Fools
- Director Johan Kramer
- Production Company Chelsea
- Color/Post Production Ambassadors
- Sound FC Walvisch
- Producer Defne Anit
- Producer Julia Oosterwegel
- DP Katja van den Broeke
- Producer Erik Mertens
- Executive Producer Frank de Kok
- Executive Producer Collin Maas
- Writer Johan Kramer
- President/Owner/Executive Producer Lisa Mehling
- Executive Producer Mel Fong
- Editor Kevin Whelan
- Colorist Amy Besate
- Graphic Designer Maria Walnut
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.
