Lumière de mes yeux
In 2012, as I was filming at the Saint-Louis hospital, I met Mahmoud who had been blinded and disfigured during the Egyptian revolution and who had come to France for treatment thanks to a humanitarian association. I filmed him over several months. Then he disappeared. What has become of him?
Sophie Bredier
Born in South Korea, then adopted in France, Sophie Bredier is a documentary filmmaker and fiction scriptwriter. After studying classics at the Sorbonne and working as a critic (Bref, Les Cahiers du Cinéma, La Lettre du Cinéma), she turned to documentary filmmaking, making three autobiographical films – Nos traces silencieuses (1998) and Séparées (2000), in collaboration with Myriam Aziza; then, on her own, Corps étranger (2004). Developing her work around recurring themes such as loss, abandonment and filiation, she also examines physical traces as places of memory. Her films have been regularly selected for international festivals such as Cinéma du réel, Dok Leipzig, FIPA, Busan, San Francisco Film Festival, FID, DMZ Docs, etc.
Les Films de l’œil sauvage
Sophie Bredier, Nathanaël Besson-Vigo, Jean-Philippe Bouyer, Aurélien Py, Nina Bernfeld
Yolande Decarsin, Mickaël Kandelman
Luc Forveille
Les films de l'oeil sauvage / florian@oeilsauvage.com
