Temina Kiasinian

Temina Kiasinian is an art director and filmmaker born in Armenia.

After finishing her studies in photography and textile design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp 2009 she started her career as a photographer, art director and producer in the fashion industry.

Temina worked on large film sets with international directors and photographers such as Jean Claude Thibaut, Arthur De Kersauson and Mario Testino for clients as Vogue US, Louis Vuitton and Dior.

In 2016 Temina started focussing on fiction. She wrote her first short film BLUE BIRD which she directed in May 2019, produced by her own company Sharp Origins in collaboration with Cartouche.

She was part of the development team on CLEAN with Koen van Sande and provided art direction.

Clean

LIM | Less is More 2019

CLEAN is an intimate author film with a wide impact. Not another expensive action driven police film or drug story. This film is about the inner battle of the protagonist, about the human tragedy behind a family confronted with a drug addict family member. Where do you draw the line as a brother, sister, father or mother? And what line will you draw? There is fear and doubt, there is the almost compulsive urge to care. After all it is family. But at the same time there is aversion, disapproval.

The hesitation that family members of drugs- users experience to talk about it openly, makes the damage even greater than it already is.

By embedding these hypocrite, moral and ideologic issues in an average middle-class family and showing the deep human destruction that these cause, the audience is taken out of its comfort zone and forced to think about the inhumane and absurdity of choices that are made, based on tragic misunderstandings about drug addiction.