Elisa Haberer
France
Bio
Elisa grew up in Chalon-sur-Saône, the cradle of photography. She would spend time in the Nicéphore Niepce museum with her parents on Sundays, whenever it rained. The real revelation was later on. She realised the importance of images when she was 13, in 1993, and she saw the film « Three colours : Blue » by Krzysztof Kieslowski. From that point on she was determined to get into cinema. « The film was vital for me », she says. She immersed herself in the director’s work, discovering André Téchiné in the process and naturally ended up enrolling in the newly-created cinema course at Lyon University when she left school. On a whim, she decided to take photography as an option. She was impatient and, as she says, « Years would have gone by before I made a film, whereas photography was immediate ». Add to this a decisive meeting with Christian Caujolle and Elisa has now been a photographer for 12 years. An accomplished photographer who has just made her first film, « My lucky bird ».