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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.
«By revisiting and reformulating a 1960s and 1970s New York experimental cinema practice that involved scratching film strips, I found a way to think about images at a pace not dictated by media temporality.»
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FESTIVALS | |||
2024 | FIFDH | ||
2023 | Festival des Libertés | ||
2023 | Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival | ||
2023 | États généraux du film documentaire | ||
2023 | Movies that matter | ||
2023 | One World | ||
2023 | CPH DOX | ||
2021 | IDFA Forum | ||
2018 | LEFFEST | ||
2016 | Rencontres du film documentaire de Mellionnec | ||
2016 | Ethnografilm Festival | ||
2015 | DocsDF | ||
2015 | AVIFF | ||
2015 | Tartu World Film Festival |
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