Katy Lena Ndiaye lives between Dakar and Brussels. Documentary filmaker, her films put on screen a contemporary Africa, the relationship it has with history, memory and legacies. L’argent, la liberté, une histoire du franc CFA, is her latest film. A feature documentary devoted to the CFA franc, a currency inherited from the French colonial system …
Pascal Deux started out in cinema with Vivement Dimanche by François Truffaut. After acareer as assistant director – during which he collaborated with great cinematographers suchas Samuel Fuller and Jacques Rivette – he went into directing. After two short films,Constance and Soigneurs Dehors ! – both selected for numerous international festivals – hedirected Noble Art, a documentary included in …
Luc Moullet, born in 1937, joined Cahiers du cinéma at the age of 18 alongside Truffaut, Rivette, Godard, Chabrol and Rohmer. He made his first films in 1960. From 1966, he became an actor as well as a producer (of his own films but also of Eustache and Duras). To date, he has signed 38 …
Claire Simon came to cinema through editing. Récréations and Coûte que coûte resonate with others as the sign of the advent of documentary in French cinema. Since then, she has alternated between documentary films for the cinema and fictions. Claire Simon films the others around her as heroes: the children of Récréations, the stressed boss …
Johanna Bedeau studied anthropology and has extended her fieldwork by making documentaries. Working for more than seventeen years on the condition of women in Africa and in France, she made her first documentary film Bilakoro, on excision in Mali, then Ma cité au féminin, on the condition of women in the housing estates, and numerous …
Quentin Papapietro, born in Limoges in 1987, graduate of the ESAV and a former critic at the Cahiers du cinéma, has shot in ten years twenty short films, including 40A service Pierrick (2020) broadcast on Canal+, as well as two feature films, Water Music (2014) and En Fumée (2018). His films, selected at major festivals …
Emmanuelle Démoris was born in 1965 in London. She lives in Paris. She studied literature and art history, then cinema at the FEMIS. She first worked in theater, as a director and as an actress (with Tadeusz Kantor). In 1997, she directed her first documentary film, Mémoires de pierre, and then, in 2010, Mafrouza, a …
Philippe Rouy is a director. His trilogy dedicated to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, 4 buildings, facing the sea, Machine to Machine and Fovea centralis, has been presented, among others, at the FIDMarseille, Cinéma du Réel, Mumbai Film Festival, Torino Film Festival.
Bani Khoshnoudi, who works as a filmmaker and visual artist, was born in Tehran and immigrated to the United States in 1979 during the revolution. She studied architecture, photography and cinema at the University of Texas at Austin and was studio artist at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. Her works, inhabited …
Kevin Jerome Everson (b.1965, Mansfield, Ohio). Professor of Art at University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Everson’s art practice encompasses printmaking, sculpture, photography and film. Recipient of the Guggenheim; Berlin Prize; Heinz Award; Alpert Award; Rome Prize. Mid-career retrospectives at Cinema du Reel; Tate Modern/Film; Halle fur Kunst Steiermark, Graz; Harvard Film Archive; Whitney Museum of American …
Vadim Dumesh is a documentary director, researcher, and journalist with academic background in cinema, art, public affairs, and economics. Originally from Latvia, Vadim maintains a transdisciplinary approach and is currently exploring the potential of co-creation practices, which he is developing in his doctoral thesis in artistic research and practice Documentary authorship and collective creativity in …
Tulapop Saenjaroen, born in 1986 in Chon Buri, Thailand, is an artist and filmmaker whose practice encompasses performance, video and film. His recent shorts interrogate the correlations between image production and production of subjectivity as well as the paradoxes intertwining control and freedom in late capitalism. In combining narrative and the essay film genre, he …