https://www.halsman.xyz/the-film daily 0.75 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c10dfbf62f2111775d417e/8b8ad9b2-d058-4fdd-ae89-af842c0577a2/Screen+Shot+2021-12-21+at+3.37.01+AM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c10dfbf62f2111775d417e/977d8656-c862-49f6-8d27-d04d931722c3/Cocteau11x14edition.jpg The Film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c10dfbf62f2111775d417e/a977d3c9-3912-4cc7-8fbe-be61a07bd3db/cannoncard_small.jpg The Film - DIRECTOR’S VISION Personal connection to material and access As the grandson and archivist of Halsman’s life work, I have access to and the rights to use all of our IP (iconic and unknown photographs, negatives, files, objects, etc.) My mother Irene and I started filming interviews 20 years ago when I was a teenager. Since 2019 I have been shooting additional interviews and extensively researching previously unknown parts of Halsman’s life. We also have 50 + hours of audio lectures and classes given by Halsman, and boxes of his essays, and correspondences with notable personalities. Halsman was on the Johnny Carson show, Omnibus, Person to Person, as well as other TV shows. The Structural Framework for organizing Halsman’s life story The story will be told across 4 chapters (Paris, USA, Halsman’s Philosophy, Trial as catalyst). The film will be approx 40% Archival footage, 40% Interviews/contemporary footage, 20% Animation/Ai. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c10dfbf62f2111775d417e/71deb85d-39c9-4046-92dc-2c03626a73a9/Halsman+Holiday+Card++1964.png The Film - MOOD The starting point for this film is to imagine what kind of movie my grandfather would have made about himself with the tools of today. I want to use his body of work as direct inspiration. He could be funny and playful, exploring surrealistic notions and magical realism. He could be dead serious and probe into the depths of the human experience. Always looking to innovate, his work embodies the pantheon of human emotion. This is a film that will have light moments, magical moments, and serious moments, with the aim that the viewer comes away transformed having seen a very unique film about a unique man who survived a nightmare and recreated his life in the most amazing way. His main creative thesis was the Psychological Portrait, and this film will be a psychological portrait of him, revealing his humanity when the mask falls. STYLE My grandfather used his skills as an engineer who was after precision and technology to make his images even more powerful. I have absorbed his wide ranging styles my whole life. They inform and inspire my own art practice, and serve as entry points to bring a modern approach to telling his story. Many of his technical innovations were based on playing with the materiality of his medium through collage and darkroom experimentation. They were practical and imaginative ways to create images that only existed in the realm of the mind. I see a lot of potential for the narration of the story by animating (in innovative ways) the wealth of his many photographs only I have access to. The film will be framed through a personal lens; with my mother and I as storytellers and narrators, using personal family objects and old photo equipment as jumping off points to tell different parts of the story. We have archival interviews from the 40s through the 90s, and new interviews will be shot with important subjects, as well as footage in Austria retracing the hike and revisiting the scene of the crime. We will create a work that reflects Halsman’s creative whimsy and daring, far from a typical talking heads documentary. My experience and understanding of digital art and Ai animation will allow me to recreate scenes of the past using deepfake and Ai technology, an area Halsman would be exploring if he were alive today. https://www.halsman.xyz/intro daily 1.0 2024-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c10dfbf62f2111775d417e/25058bd6-10ec-4df3-9d61-1db35acff1af/1948_Halsman_Family_forweb.jpg Intro - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c10dfbf62f2111775d417e/0e82e402-1fca-49cf-be6c-40b83581af98/pitchdeckcover2.jpg Intro https://www.halsman.xyz/other-nft-projects daily 0.75 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c10dfbf62f2111775d417e/e5c90d7c-9d6b-46c5-a8d5-394506ddeb29/Screen+Shot+2023-02-15+at+12.59.18+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c10dfbf62f2111775d417e/070d8970-baab-4721-a4f1-ce5037a184c8/Screen+Shot+2022-08-04+at+1.31.27+PM.png https://www.halsman.xyz/press daily 0.75 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c10dfbf62f2111775d417e/a739268e-a31e-4356-85d7-d7b63c64a6aa/Screenshot+2024-02-15+at+2.24.39%E2%80%AFPM.png https://www.halsman.xyz/contact-1 daily 0.75 2024-02-15