Private Project

Seed

a seed. for friendship, for discovery, for delight

  • Nisha Platzer
    Director
  • Malin Schmid
    Director
  • Nisha Platzer
    Camera & Processing
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Samen
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 38 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 31, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Cuba
  • Shooting Format:
    Super8mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Laboratorio Cine FAC
    Montevideo
    Uruguay
    July 13, 2018
  • KinoLab Bogotá
    Bogota
    Colombia
    August 10, 2018
  • Laboratorio Experimental de Cine (LEC)
    Mexico City
    Mexico
    September 7, 2018
  • the8fest
    Toronto
    Canada
    January 25, 2019
    North American
  • Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market

    France
    January 29, 2020
  • Artifact film festival
    Calgary
    Canada
    April 3, 2019
    Alberta
  • Muestra de Cine super 8 y 16mm
    San Roque
    Spain
    October 23, 2019
    European
Director Biography - Nisha Platzer, Malin Schmid

Nisha Platzer (she/her) is a queer artist and filmmaker from Vancouver, Canada. Her films meld sounds and imagery that you can dream and drown in. Her short film, Vaivén (2020) won the best film award at aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival and competed at festivals worldwide including Raindance, Festival Nouveau Cinéma, FIDBA, and Ji.hlava. Nisha studied at the renowned Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba. Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council and the National Film Board of Canada. She teaches handmade film workshops and is a member of Iris Film Collective. An alumnus of IDFAcademy, the VIFF mentorship program, and the Hot Docs Doc Accelerator Lab, her work can be found in music videos, narrative, and experimental films. Nisha’s first feature documentary ‘back home’ is supported by Telefilm Talent to Watch and was presented at the Docs-in-Progress Canadian Showcase at Cannes Film Festival 2022.

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Director Statement

'samen' (english title: seed) is a short experimental film made in Cuba, while i was living and studying at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) from 2017-2020

A bit about 'seed':
An exploration of bodies, plants and “machines”, which ponders the question of looking at ourselves as differentiated forms of the vegetable and/or creation.
One could ask oneself “is this a body or is it a plant? And answer: "yes".