Aurélien Froment has been developing his work for some twenty years with a deviant interest in cinema, playing with its structure, language, materials and spaces. His work summons up stories of “concrete utopias”, often situated at the margins of modernity. This research materialises as huge photographic installations (Théâtre optique, 2021; Of Shadows of Ideas, 2016; …
Pierre Tonachella was born in 1988 and grew up in a village in the Essonne region. He studied philosophy and film theory in Paris before devoting himself to documentary filmmaking. His work mixes intimacy and politics and often involves people he knows in his village. He also writes poetry.
Tomonari Nishikawa’s films explore the idea of documenting a scene in the public space through a chosen medium and techniques, while his performances focus on the process of producing a visual/sound phenomenon using analog devices, such as 16mm and slide projectors. Nishikawa currently teaches in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University.
Born and raised in Toulouse, Marie-Pierre Brêtas spent part of her childhood in Oran, where her parents left to work in the midst of the post-independence turmoil, and then in Thiais, in the Paris suburbs. After completing a hypokhâgne and a spell at the Sorbonne, she became a journalist at Le Matin, freelancing for various …
Pablo Álvarez-Mesa is a filmmaker, cinematographer and editor working mainly in non fiction, whose films have played and earned awards at international film festivals including Berlinale, IFFR, Viennale, MoMA, Visions du Réel, and RIDM. His work in cinema lies in the relationship between fact and fiction; between what is recalled and what is inevitably constructed. Pablo …
Virgil Vernier is a French actor and director born in 1976. In 2001, he directed his first film, Karine. His short and medium-length films have been featured in numerous international festivals, including the Directors’ Fortnight (Cannes), ACID (Cannes), FID Marseille, Locarno Film Festival, IndieLisboa, Cinema du Reel (Paris), and the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montreal). …
Tamer Hassan has screened his films internationally including at Viennale, Art of the Real, Mar Del Plata, Punto de Vista and Sheffield DocFest. He has been a fellow at the Flaherty Film Seminar and participated in the Berlinale Talents program. He currently teaches at Parsons School of Design.
Born in 1986 in Banja Luka, SFR Yugoslavia, Dane Komljen studied cinema and art. He made two features, All the Cities of the North and Afterwater (Cinéma du réel 2022), along numerous short. He works and lives in Berlin.
Born in Osaka (Japan), 1987. Filmmaker/Artist. Through images and sounds, Kaori Oda‘s works explore the memories of human beings. She lived in Sarajevo for three years from 2013 and completed the Doctor of Liberal Arts in filmmaking under the supervision of Bela Tarr in 2016. Her first feature, Aragane (2015) shot in a Bosnian coal …
A graduate in geology, Elvis Sabin Ngaïbino had always dreamt of devoting himself to the cinema. In 2012, he and a group of friends founded the Académie du Cinéma Centrafricain, an association of film enthusiasts. He produced and directed small-budget short films for the Central African broadcaster until he discovered the Ateliers Varan, where he …
Born in the USA in 1976, Ben Russell is a Marseille-based artist, filmmaker and curator whose work lies at the intersection of ethnography and psychedelia. He was an exhibiting artist at documenta 14 (2017) and his work has been presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, the Museum …