S H A N Y N F I S K E
P H O T O G R A P H Y
FILMMAKING
My passion for visual storytelling has inevitably led me to film. As an independent filmmaker, I produce, direct, shoot, and edit my own projects. On occasion, I also collaborate with other directors, cinematographers, screenwriters, and editors and deeply appreciate the teamwork involved in any successful film production.
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Montmartre, Paris
Some places only become fully embodied for me in memory.When I’m there, I’m working - filming, directing, paying attention, managing the frame, the light, the movement, the day. But later, at the editing table, something opens. The place returns with its full emotional weight. And my job then is different: not to manage the moment, but to listen for the story in it. Paris is like that for me. I seem to experience it most deeply in retrospect, as if memory makes me permeable to what I couldn't quite take in at the time. As if I return to it like a ghost, and in that ghostly return can finally feel its atmosphere, its ache, its beauty. Shot with brand strategist Philip Gaskin in Montmartre, this small film of streets, people, and music carries that particular feeling of a place arriving late, but all at once.
Sites of Survival
Sites of Survival is a feature documentary that weaves together stories of individuals using their art to process trauma with autoethnographic footage documenting my own use of film, photography, and writing to explore my subjectivity as a survivor and witness.
Moynat
This piece was created in collaboration with luxury brand Moynat and brand strategist Philip Gaskin. Shot at the Moynat flagship store in Paris.
The Huldufolk Project
In August 2025, screenwriter Brian Silberman and I traveled to Iceland to collaborate on a project that combines our creative practices. The result is a film essay called The Huldufolk Project. This is a clip from the film.
Gentling
This is a teaser for a documentary series I am working on featuring different horse trainers throughout the US. The trainer featured here is Greg Russell, who I filmed at his ranch near Abiquiu, NM.
Hinges
Filmed in Paris, in collaboration with brand strategist and thought leader, Philip Gaskin. This is a teaser for a documentary series exploring the stories of small, influential brands.
