Paul B. Preciado is a writer, philosopher, curator, and one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and body politics. Among his different assignments, he has been Curator of Public Programs of documenta 14 (Kassel/Athens), Curator of the Taiwan Pavilion in Venice in 2019, and Head of Research of the Museum of Contemporary …
Jean-Louis Comolli is a French filmmaker, screenwriter and writer, born in 1941 in Philippeville (now Skikda, Algeria). After working for Les Cahiers du Cinéma from 1962 to 1978, of which he was editor in chief from 1966 to 1971, he became a director of fiction and documentaries. Also a journalist for Jazz Magazine, he has …
Dominique Cabrera, born in Algeria, directed her first documentaries in 1991: Rester Là-Bas, a film about pied-noirs who had taken Algerian citizenship and, Un Balcon au Val Fourré, Chroniques d’une Banlieue Ordinaire, a film about the history of a tower block. She followed these in 1992 and 1993 with Rêves de Ville and Réjane Dans …
Franssou Prenant was born in 1952. The filmmaker working mainly in Super-8 has directed L’Escale de Guinée (1987), Paris, mon petit corps est bien las de ce grand monde (2000) and Sous le ciel lumineux de son pays natal (2002). She has also worked as a scriptwriter, actress and editor for Raymond Depardon, Romain Goupil …
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 …
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 …
Apichatpong Weerasethakul was born in 1970 in Bangkok. In 2000, he made his first film, a conceptual documentary, Mysterious Object at Noon. This was followed by Blissfully Yours, a critical success that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. It is the first part of a trilogy with Tropical Malady …
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 …
The pseudo-marxist media guerilla Total Refusal explores and practices strategies for artistic intervention in contemporary computer games. They work with tools of appropriation and rededication of game resources. Their films and performances were presented among others at Berlinale ‘20 and at the MoMA in NYC and they recently received the award for the best Austrian …
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 …