Bouba Touré was born in 1948, and died in January 2022. He lived in France in the Foyer Pinel from 1965 and worked at the factory Chausson until 1969. He studied at the Vincennes University and was a projectionist at Cinema 14 Juillet and L’entrepôt, Paris. Photographer since the 1970s, he documented the lives and struggles of migrant workers and peasants in …
Yunyi ZHU is a Chinese artist whose practice questions memory and perception. He graduated from Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts in sculpture, Esä in art and science. Since 2020, he has been updating artistic research at Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. His works are based on the combination of a series of …
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 …
After having studied sociology and cinema, Audrey Ginestet becomes a sound operator, sound editor and sound mixer for many radio, television and cinema works. She directs two short films, Dokonan (2004) and Spring Yes Yes Yes (2012) and a documentary webseries, Audiostories (2016). Acquittal is her first feature film. Besides, Audrey plays bass in the band …
Théodora Barat leads a multidisciplinary practice ranging from film to sculpture and photography. She is interested in changing environments, in those ultimate moments when the artificial landscape becomes a sign. She examines the figures of modernity, dissects her chimeras in order to question our future. Her work has been presented at Center Pompidou, Cneai, Nuit …
Noah Teichner is an American-born filmmaker, artist, and researcher based in Paris, France. His films, performances, and installations make use of a variety of sound and image technologies to look at issues related to both humor and historiography. He holds an MFA from the Paris-Cergy National Graduate School of Art and a PhD in Film …
Baptiste Pinteaux is a publisher and independent scholar. He runs the publishing house Daisy and the art magazine Octopus notes. Nachtlied (2022) is his first film. He collaborated on the screenplay of Des jeunes filles disparaissent (Clément Pinteaux, 2018) and played in Liberté (Albert Serra, 2019).
Sónia Vaz Borges is an interdisciplinary militant historian and social-political organizer. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Humboldt University of Berlin. She is the author of the book Militant Education, Liberation Struggle; Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978, (Peter Lang, 2019). She is currently a researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin. …
After a childhood between Toulouse, Oran, and Thiais, Marie-Pierre Brêtas became a journalist at the Matin de Paris and then moved to New York. She worked as a cook and housekeeper at the Chelsea Hotel, and as a decorator’s assistant on films, including The Spike of Bensonhurst by Paul Morrissey… In Paris, she studied cinema …
Érik Bullot is a filmmaker and theoretician. The author of numerous films midway between documentary and experimental cinema, he recently published with Éditions Yellow Now Cinéma Roussel (2021) and L’Attrait des ventriloques (2022). His work has been presented in numerous festivals and museums. He teaches cinema at the École national supérieure d’art (National School of …
Maria Kourkouta is a filmmaker, editor and producer, born in Greece, in 1982. After studying history, she moved to Paris where she studied film theory. She makes films since 2010, mostly in 16mm film. After her short film Return To Aeolus Street in 2014 (Arte Prize for Best European short film at Oberhausen FF), she …