Private Project

Air Sea Boat Land

Whether for a few hours or for several weeks, sailing is always a singular journey. A moment outside earthly time, in close connection with the elements of nature. As soon as the mooting lines are dropped, another temporality starts ...
What a feeling of freedom! When one sees the coast getting distance gradually, accompanied by the sound of the wind in the sails. A feeling that every sailor feels in his own way. It is this feeling that sailing lovers come to fetch on board.
Sailing brings together deep emotions, feelings of humility, authenticity, uniqueness. Far from the din of the land, boats have the power to bring humans and nature together with the elements that compose it, water and air, the sky and the sea.
A short poetic film that tries to highlight these elements that mark and miss so much to the sailors when they are on land. Images and sounds that call and remind the desire to leave... Where the adventure promises to be rich in harmonious emotions.

  • CNB Yacht Builders
    Producer
  • Romain Claris
    Writer
  • Romain Claris
    Director
  • Chloé Guêze
    Voice
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Air Mer Bateau Terre
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    art film, poetry
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 48 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 1, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    Sony FS5
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16/9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Inshort Film Festival 2018
    Lagos
    Nigeria
    December 20, 2018
    Official selection
Distribution Information
  • Romain Claris
Director Biography - Romain Claris

Romain Claris was born in Cannes in 1983. After a journey to Niger in 1995 where he joined the film crew of the feature film Imûhar, he worked on photography and then began to make very short films in 2000. After graduating from the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français in 2005, he joined the advertising agency Claris Image Builder as head of the video department and ensured the production of 200 commercials.
Alongside his agency work, he continues to make personal films, selected or rewarded at international film festivals. His latest very short film Cousins of clouds has been four-time rewarded including the "best philosophy in animation" award at the Avalonia Festival in the USA. More recently, he has been codirecting the medium-length movie Behold the night, a free adaptation around the novel by Yasunari Kawabata Sleeping beauties, selected by the Experimental Forum at Los Angeles and by the Wunderground Film Festival at the Verbeke Foundation in Belgium.
He also signs with the photographer Nicolas Claris several photo and video exhibitions starting with Bangladesh in 2013. Their latest exhibition Noirs took place this summer at the Relais & Châteaux - Le Saint-James Art Gallery.

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Director Statement

Air See Boat Land is a short poetic film that tries to highlight these elements that mark and miss so much to the sailors when they are on land. Images and sounds that call and remind the desire to leave... Where the adventure promises to be rich in harmonious emotions.