A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Montreal, Québec, Canada
Born:
October 18, 1981
Raphë is a queer shapeshifting artist, producer, and visual storyteller, working primarily in the fields of performance, living sculpture, video art, and collective events. Their practice intertwines buffoonery, flamboyant simulacrum, and the poetry of disaster, shaping and embodying hybrid creatures; liminal figures endowed with their own gestural language emerging through handcrafted costumery. Presented in marginal spaces; wastelands, abandoned sites, and environments perceived as hostile, as well as within collective gatherings rooted in subcultures, Raphë’s work navigates the tension between the institutional and the informal.
Art Direction:
2025 Dumpster Duchess
Director:
2022 Tërra Bëstia
2025 Dumpster Duchess
Producer:
2022 Tërra Bëstia
2025 Dumpster Duchess
Script Editor:
2022 Tërra Bëstia
2025 Dumpster Duchess
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.