Iris Pääbo

Iriz Pääbo is an internationally recognized composer-filmmaker. In a creative process informed by a synesthesia involving musical keys, tones, pitch, and colour, Pääbo creates visual music that meshes image and sound and collapses the distinction between the two. Pääbo composes and performs the music for all of her films and continues to develop a structural vocabulary of image-and-sound phrases. “HA’Aki” – a film with the National Film Board of Canada – was the winner of the Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for Best Computer Animation and Visual Effects in 2009. Pääbo is the first Canadian woman to win this prestigious international award.