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Tim Leyendekker

Tim Leyendekker (1973, the Netherlands) is an artist based between Rotterdam and Strasbourg. He received an MFA from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. His films contain a palpable trace of their creation process, engaging the viewer to critically relate to the construction of the work itself. His work has been shown in several major galleries …

Astrid de la Chapelle

Astrid de la Chapelle is a French filmmaker and artist. In her films, she experiments with storytelling, particularly in relation to geology and the economic cycles of the Earth’s resources, as well as science fiction. Since 2012, she has also been playing in the group, Shrouded and the Dinner, with four other artists. Astrid’s films …

Marie Ward

Graduated from the Paris School of Decorative Arts in September 2020. Works with the image and volume. Recent years have been driven by the desire to understand the mechanisms through which a country or a community ends up dominating another. What are the consequences? How are identities born and transformed in these relationships of domination? …

Skander Mestiri

Born in 1996 in the Lilas district of Seine-Saint-Denis, Skander Mestiri made his first films in 2018 while studying art. At first, he focussed wholly on drawing and engraving techniques, but half-way through his studies, he began to work with photography, which immediately made him want to make films that mix fiction and documentary.

Yohan Guignard

During his cinema school, Yohan Guignard makes movies about non professional and countryside rugby. In 2017, his short movie «Adieu la chair!», continues to explore male rituals in this sport. Selected in many festivals, it won the grand prize in the Parisian festival Le court en dit long and screen on french television (Arte, Ciné …

Nicolas Matos Ichaso

Born in 1982, Nicolas Matos Ichaso lives and works in Saint Etienne, France. After several trips to Southern Asia and Africa, he turned to visual anthropology studies and focused his work on blacksmiths in Ethiopia. In 2016, he joined the Ardèche Images Documentary School in Lussas, France. Glow of the Hyenas is his first documentary …

Clara Claus

Clara Claus (born 1985) is a French multidisciplinary artist. After living for many years in New York, where she studied fine arts at the Cooper Union school, she now lives and works between Paris and Banyuls-sur-Mer, where she was born, in the south of France. Through painting, drawing, video and performance, Clara Claus’s projects touch …

Robert Huot

After being so involved in the art world both as a gallery artist and an activist, this something entirely new for me. After producing some of the most extreme, dematerialized, distilled and almost invisible art in the late Sixties, in January 1970 I began a film diary. […] Slowly the impact of my choices began …