Joseph Paris

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Filmmaker. Documentary films and experimental cinema.
Latest participation: Maldoror directed by Benjamin Lazar.
In festivals: The Flag. Upcoming dates ↓
Festival des libertés · Belgian premiere on October 14 at 7 p.m. at the National Theater in Brussels.
Nuremberg Human Rights Film Festival · German premiere on September 28 at 6:45p.m, at Filmhaus Nürnberg.

First a pioneer in the use of copyleft licenses in video art, he founded with other filmmakers the Kassandre collective, which combines video 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 new experimental and political documentary, will be released soon in theaters.

Previously, he worked on the series Exterminate All The Brutes directed by Raoul Peck for HBO and he directed with a group of actors the film To die gracefully, 24 hours of live cinema on Youtube.

More recently, La Nuit des hiéroglyphes at the Institut de France is his fourth collaboration with Benjamin Lazar, after the video creation of his shows Heptameron and Maldoror and the production of the film The Forest of Masks. which took part in the Toyen exhibition in 2022. at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.

He is currently developing a film with Annie Le Brun and Juri Armanda and has various artistic collaborations with the author Joanna Dunis and the sound designer Alejandro Van Zandt-Escobar.

FESTIVALS

2023 · Germany · Nuremberg Human Rights Film Festival

2023 · Belgium · Festival des libertés

2023 · France · États généraux du film documentaire

2023 · France · Rencontres du cinéma indépendant

2023 · Netherlands · Movies That Matter

2023 · Czech Reepublic · One World

2023 · Denmark · CPH:DOX

2021 · Netherlands · IDFA Rough cut

2017 · France · Festival of Non-Aligned Artistic Practices

2018 · Portugal · Lisboa Film Festival

2016 · Austria · Elevate Festival