“This is a journey that tells the harmonious story of how I’m combing my visual arts 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.”
Visual Artistry: Filmmaking and Lens-based Art
I’m The Artist Mihály (‘me·hi’) aka ‘MeHi’ …and I make pictures—both still and moving. I’m a late bloomer Canadian indie filmmaker (in my groovy 60s’) and a lens-based artist living in Newfoundland Canada—experimenting with film production and boundary-breaking photography while living on the road in our turtle truck camper with my wife Fátima, and my dog Lucky.
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’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 and aerial cinematography more than any other type of photographic genre.
Camera to Canvas (creating lens-based 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 photograph.
My online gallery represents the latest collection of photographs influenced by the world of fine-art, my creative and growing process.
Documenting My Cinematic Life On The Road
My travel films are poetic documentaries in nature with a hint of cinéma vérité documentary approaches—of amazing places we visit, cultures that inspire me, and sometimes—of extraordinary people I have the privilege to meet.
Camera to Canvas is the reason I make travel documentaries, it’s creating moving pictures for my new visual arts initiative ‘The StillCine Project’ a visual dialogue between photography and film to make art—oil paintings.
The StillCine Project
Finding the magic between photography and cinema to make 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.
StillCine 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—The Humble Sea Turtle
The sea turtle perfectly sums me up—both still and moving—independent, water lover, slow and steady. In the eye’s of global cultures, the sea turtle represents many beliefs and symbolism—indigenous peoples circle of life to simply meaning peace on earth—The turtle is my perfect life coach for my visual motivation and momentum.
My Social Life
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.
I HAVE 2 YT CHANNELS:
— Channel 1: MEHI●ME channel is about my Cinematic Life on the Road.
— Channel 2: Is about The StillCine Project: (at the moment it’s my YouTube testing channel).
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.