ABOUT
Having completed an Undergraduate program in film, at La Sorbonne Panthéon in Paris Hannah Papacek Harper finalized her degree in Audiovisual Communication at the University Of Lima, Peru. She has just completed her first feature documentary: Lost For Words, which will premiere à CPH:DOX, in March 2025.
She has explored the world of cinema and theatre in different ways. From assistant directing to set photography, passing by costume design and creation, she has progressively turned herself toward a more specific interest in camera work (steadicam) and then direction. She has been directing commercials, music videos and documentaries since 2019 and is currently developing her second feature documentary: An Instant of Non-Existence (Serbia). In parallel, she is writing fiction with several short films and two feature project in late re-writing stages.
Her interest in borders, identity and research around belong, has directed her toward sensitive cartography. Her projects have been showcased in collective and solo shows such as in the Anglo-American university in Prague and at Tourouvre in France.
Film and cartography combine as she uses immersive AR (Augmented reality) to invite people into the Irish landscape with her project in development Geopoetics. This brings two of her main interests together: Our relationship to the landscape and the way it shapes us.
FESTIVALS
2021 - New York Flash Film Festival – Winner of Best Micro Short Documentary with Vegetative
2021 - AltFF Alternative Film Festival – Winner of Best Ultra short experimental film with Vegetative
2022 - London Super Shorts Film Festival – Vegetative
2022 - Amsterdam Independant Film festival – Vegetative
2022 - Berlin Flash Film Festival – Vegetative
2022 - Kino Bled – Sélectionné – Vegetative
2022 - Nature Culture Film Festival – Vegetative
2022 - Upstate New York Film Festival – Vegetative
2022 - Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival – Vegetative
2022 - Bideodromo Film Festival – Vegetative
2022 - Big Teeth Small short Film Festival – Vegetative
2023 - Les Instants Vidéos Marseille – Just Listen To The Storm
2023 - Brussels Independant film Festival – Vegetative
2023 - Sydney World Film Festival – Just Listen to the Storm
2025 - CPH:DOX – Lost For Words
2025 - FIFA – Lost For Words
2025 - AFO – Lost For Words
EXHIBITIONS
2022 - Anglo-American University Prague for collective Psychogeography exhibit organised by Goldsmiths University
2020 - Les Muséales de Tourouvre, Solo Exhibition of Photographic work and Videos created in collaboration with Dance Company Association Mouvement Artrope and Jean-François Cavro, Sound creator, Tourouvre, France
2019 - 'Y'a Plus de Saisons' Festival, Collective exhibit and cultural manifestation, Ségrie, France
2017 - Grahame Galleries for ABBE (Artists Books Brisbane Event), Brisbane, Australia
2017 - La Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Collective Exhibit of Photographic Artist Books, Paris, France
2015 - La Sorbonne, Paris 4, Collective Exhibit of Photographic Artist Books, Paris, France
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
2017 - Artist book Elles Respirent Toujours Purchased by Queensland State Library for permanent exhibit.
ARTIST COMPETITIONS
2017 - Artist book competition to exhibit in the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
RESIDENCIES/LABS/FORUMS
2022 - Artist Residency NOTA BENE in Cadaqués, Costa Brava
2022 - Dox Invitro, Slovakia (For An Instant of Non-Existence)
2022 - MIA Doc Pitching Forum (Lost for Words)
2022 - Ji.hlava Market Forum (An Instant of Non-Existence)
2023 - KFF Market Forum (Lost for Words)
2023 - Docfest Sheffield AR Talent Forum (Geopoetics)
2023 - IDFA Doclab Pitching Forum (Geopoetics)
2024 - Eso Doc (For An Instant of Non-Existence)
2024 - CECI Le Moulin d'Andé fiction writing residency (2,22 (Bubblemint))
2025 - Interface Artist Residency in Western Ireland (Geopoetics)
