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 …
Wiame Haddad (1987) graduated from ESAD in Valenciennes, and from La Cambre in Brussels. The artist’s work can be considered as a photographic and cinematographic research project which investigates ethical issues and experiments with formal approaches. This research is coupled with a yearning for the unseen. Focusing on the forgotten bodies of History, her work …
Rayane Mcirdi was born in Paris and grew up between Asnières-sur-Seine and Gennevilliers, in the Hauts-de-Seine department. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Angers. His work, midway between fiction and documentary, is based on stories, memories and anecdotes collected from his relatives, which …
Luc Decaster grew up in Saint-Nazaire, the “French ship-building capital”. During his teenage years while he was preparing for his Industrial Boilermaker’s Certificate, he was marked by fierce strikes, the confrontations between laborers from the Atlantic shipyards and the riot police. Having become an industrial draftsman with Chausson in the Paris region, he discovered the …