Cinema, Photography and the Visual Artist
“This is a journey that tells the harmonious story of how I’m combing my fine art upbringing—sculpting, painting, design and overlapping them with my newly acquired passions—photography, music (sound), and optics. By turning to filmmaking, I can shape my visual stories in a cinematic way.”
My name is Mihály (‘me·hi’) aka ‘MeHi’, a colourblind visual artist living in Newfoundland Canada. I love experimenting with film production and boundary-breaking photography while travelling in a tiny truck camper, wild camping and going on road trips to find compelling stories about fascinating places, extraordinary people and engaging cultures that I encounter while on the road.
Elements of photographic styles that shape my work
The practice of multifaceted photography and experimental filmmaking explores new possibilities to frontier the photographic medium and cinematography into the world of contemporary art. I use the camera not only for reference, expression and inspiration, but as an integral part of my field studies and studio investigations for my films and photography.
I love taking spontaneous artful shots, full of passion, feeling and fun–of beautiful things.
I’m not a pure professional photographer, nor a Savvy Cinematographer
My relationship with the camera is not a commercial one, it’s my digital sketchbook, to use as an art tool, or for a type of art. I love taking spontaneous artful shots, full of passion, feeling and fun–of beautiful things, and vice versa, capturing life’s reality with a good story behind it – culturally, politically, or just for pure experimental pleasure. I do love street photography mixed with photojournalism, and aerial cinematography more than any other type of photographic genre.
Making lens-based New Art
The strategy to my compositions is to create a painterly, or cinematic quality towards atmospheric pictures–imprinted with my artistic values, and emotional values in making a contemporary art-based photograph.
My website represents a collection of photographs influenced by my world of fine-art, my creative and the world around me.
The StillCine Project
Finding the magic between photography and cinema to make new art.
StillCine, a unique and diverse visual arts project — Inspired by Aperture’s ‘Film & Foto’ No 231 issue — I’m revisiting and reexamining the 1929 exhibition that blended photography and cinema as the starting point for my work.
The StillCine Project explores the complex relationships between photography and cinema’s passage to art/subjective expression—between stillness and movement—together with my strong desire to bridge the divide allowing me to find the magic between both mediums to create gallery-based contemporary art for my private estate collection.
Mascot and Lucky Charm—SeaMore the Turtle
The sea turtle perfectly sums me up—both still, and moving—independent, water loving, slow and steady. In view of indigenous global cultures, the sea turtle represents many beliefs and symbolism—circle of life to simply meaning peace on earth. The sea turtle is my perfect life coach for my visual motivation and momentum.
Films on YouTube and Vimeo
[ mehi in motion ] …pictures is… my Journey to Filmmaking—about a Travelling Filmmaker 🙂
My travel films are poetic documentaries in nature with a hint of cinéma vérité documentary approaches—of amazing places I visit, cultures that inspire me, and sometimes—of extraordinary people I have the privilege to meet.
Follow my work on Vimeo and/or YouTube as I hit the road to my fuel artistic aspirations to help shape my new cinematic language as a filmmaker.
THANKS for LOOKING — I hope you are enjoying my website, Vimeo/YT channels and the work that I’m doing. Got something to share with me? Get in touch.