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Louise Botkay

Estou aqui

Film expérimental | super8 | couleur | 7:0 | Brésil, Haiti | 2015

I`ve spent my childhood in Cap-Haitien, a city at the north of a half island of the Caribbean called Haiti. My life will always be inhabited by the memory and experience of this mysterious and warm(ardent???) place. I`m under the impression that everything i am comes from this light, this wind, this land, this growing up creole. "I`m here" is an ode to childhood time that accompagnies us forever

Louise Botkay is a photographer and film maker, utilizing super 8,16 and 35mm film, video, cell phone that are developed artisanally by the artist herself. She worked in several countries like Haiti, Congo, Niger, Chad, Holland, France and Brazil. Her films were selected and recipients of awards in Movie Festivals (Oberhausen, Fid de Marseille, Vidéobraisl, São Paulo Movie Festival, Brive Festival, Anger 1er Plan Festival, Fespaço, Recife International Window Movie festival, among others). Her film “Mammah” was exhibited in the Christopher Grimes Gallery (Santa Monica, Ca.), at theYerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, Ca.), Centre George Pompidou (Paris, France) and MAM – Museum of Modern Art (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). She received the prize scholarship “Villa Hors les Murs” from the Institut Français, to develop her more recent work, at Acre with the nation Hunikui. She lives today in Rio de Janeiro and works between Brazil and France.