"It was evening all afternoon.

It was snowing

And it was going to snow.

The blackbird sat

In the cedar-limbs."

– Wallace Stevens,

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Harvey Bunegar is a British independent filmmaker, educator and adventurer working primarily in the realm of documentary and broader nonfiction contexts.

As an undergraduate in Film Production at the Arts University Bournemouth, Harvey specialised in nonfiction film and sound design – writing his dissertation on the corporeal implication of the audience through sound in the work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. His graduation film, AUROЯUA, received its international premiere at the 51st Chicago International Film Festival.

In 2015, Harvey founded Open Cinematic, a nonprofit filmmakers' co-operative. The group seeks to engage with social, ecological and political concerns, serving a fundamentally humanitarian agenda. The co-op places emphasis on shared authorship and facilitates localised community engagement in the arts.

Harvey holds a University of Cambridge CELTA, teaching internationally while in the development stages of new work. Based in Vietnam, he is currently developing a series of ethnographic short films for Heritage Centre Sapa.

Harvey has had a lifelong love of the natural world, actively campaigning on environmental issues and supporting direct action on climate change. He is currently seeking to develop new work at the intersection of conservation and ethnic minority issues.

Filmography:

Heritage / Inheritance Shorts (2019–2022) (Director)

Harvest (2020) (Producer & Director)

Ithaca (2015) (Director & Sound Designer)

AUROЯUA (2014) (Director & Sound Designer)