Joseph Paris is a filmmaker. His work unfolds across two territories: documentary films, for cinema or television, and experimental cinema, which inhabits museums, and the performing arts.

An early pioneer in the use of free licenses in video art, he co-founded with other artists the Kassandre collective, which combines formal and legal experimentation. In 2014, he directed the documentary Naked War, in which he decodes the cinematographic grammar of the spectacular actions of Femen. The Flag, his second experimental and political documentary, was released in cinemas on October 30, 2024.

He worked on the series Exterminate All The Brutes directed by Raoul Peck for HBO, and directed with a group of actors Mourir gracieusement, 24 hours of improvised cinema streamed live on YouTube.

His experimental film practice also extends to the theatre: in 2025, the performance La lame et le pinceau presented at the Louvre Museum marks his fifth collaboration with theatre director Benjamin Lazar, following La Nuit des hiéroglyphes at the Institut de France, Heptaméron at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Maldoror at the Athénée, and the direction of the film The Forest of Masks, exhibited in 2022 at the Musée d'art moderne de Paris as part of the exhibition Toyen.

Since 2022, he has been developing a feature film in Ukraine and has been pursuing various projects with the writer Joanna Dunis and the sound artist Alejandro Van Zandt-Escobar.

For the 2025/26 season, he serves as documentary delegate at SRF.

The next screening of the film The Flag will take place on February 10 at Montpellier.