Jean-Claude Rousseau, born in Paris, lived in New York in the 1970s. There he discovered avant-garde cinema at the same time as the films of Ozu. In 1980 he finished writing a screenplay, Le Concert champêtre, and directed his first films. After Les Antiquités de Rome, La Vallée close is his second feature film. Selected …
Italian-French, Piero Usberti is born in 1992 in Poggibonsi (Italy). After studying philosophy at Turin University, he turned to directing. He also occasionally acts, notably in the films of his brother, Tommaso Usberti.
Virgil Vernier is a French actor and director born in 1976. In 2001, he directed his first film, Karine. His short and medium-length films have been featured in numerous international festivals, including the Directors’ Fortnight (Cannes), ACID (Cannes), FID Marseille, Locarno Film Festival, IndieLisboa, Cinema du Reel (Paris), and the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montreal). …
Born in 1982, Alexe Poukine lives in Brussels. In 2006, she moved to Jordan to prepare a thesis that she abandoned to enrol in the Lussas Documentary School. Her graduation film, Petites Morts, was selected by several international festivals. In 2011, the FNAC gave her carte blanche for a photographic project that gave rise to …
Born in 1986 in Banja Luka, SFR Yugoslavia, Dane Komljen studied cinema and art. He made two features, All the Cities of the North and Afterwater (Cinéma du réel 2022), along numerous short. He works and lives in Berlin.
Jin Jiang is born in 1989 in Luoyang, Henan Province in China. In 2010, he was introduced to contemporary art which led to his first solo-exhibition, “In the Field of Hope” in 2013. The moment of change of his career was in 2015 when he was hired as cinematographer and editor of a film. In …
Tomonari Nishikawa’s films explore the idea of documenting a scene in the public space through a chosen medium and techniques, while his performances focus on the process of producing a visual/sound phenomenon using analog devices, such as 16mm and slide projectors. Nishikawa currently teaches in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University.
Kevin Jerome Everson (b.1965, Mansfield, Ohio) is the Commonwealth Professor of Art and Director of Studio Arts at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Everson’s art practice encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture and film, 12 award-winning features and over 200 solo and collaborative short form works that screen regularly at international film festivals, cinemas, galleries and museums. …
Florence Lazar is a French filmmaker and visual artist. For the past 20 years, her videos, photographs, and art installations have been shown in museums and contemporary art centers in France and abroad. In 2019, the Jeu de Paume museum devoted a solo exhibition to her. She has been teaching at the college of art …
Natacha Thiéry : Images blend with my memory. The urge to keep a trace of things that move, touch, or revolt me is often what sparks my projects, which take the shape of documentary essays. Born in Paris, I have been an avid photographer (analogic then digital). After studying film and literature, I fulfilled my …
Cécile Laveissière : I arrived in 2004 on the Island of Reunion, with the plan to live outside France to meet other ways of life, other people, another territory. Today, thanks to the confidence gained and various encounters, I have linked my destiny to Reunion Island by working, in a personal, associative and professional capacity, …