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Etoiles noires

The Paris Opera is one of the world's most prestigious opera houses. Guillaume Diop was appointed principal dancer there in 2023—the first person of color in the opera's history. In the orchestra pit, Sulivan Loiseau plays The Nutcracker on the double bass. She is the first Black musician in the Paris Opera Orchestra. It's not just Diop and Loiseau's exceptional talent that continues to attract attention, but also their skin color. Some consider them role models. Others believe the opera is using them to fulfill its diversity quota. This documentary follows these young talents over a season and shows the cultural institution in its attempts to better reflect multicultural society.

Etoiles noires

NR 2024
Queens in Finistère

Anthony is 35 years old. He's been a business owner for 11 years and runs the Salon des Quais in Quimper. A couple for 18 years, married to the man of his life, he could lead a quiet existence in the pretty prefecture of Finistère. However, when the night comes, Anthony is none other than Britany Hart, an exuberant 100% Queer Amann drag queen! Perched on 15-centimeter heels, a flamboyant wig, delirious make-up, and a sharp tongue, Britany wakes up the Breton nights, helped by her daughters: Ixy Hart, Agony Hart, and Oly Hart. Bars, clubs, cabarets, private parties, this “Mother Drag” and her daughters are everywhere, on every front. And at the start of 2023, all their false eyelashes are focused on the organization of the second edition of the Quimper Pride, where thousands of young and not-so-young people from the surrounding towns and countryside come to celebrate, carrying the Rainbow flag and its inclusive, festive values high!

Queens in Finistère

NR 2024
A Shelter of One’s Own

A few shacks built on the hillside on the fringe of society and without men. A place of refuge, of collective and feminist transformation. From this edge, alongside those who build it, the filmmaker questions their place in nature and society, as well as the freedom of their body and the prospect of having a child. Openly alluding to Virginia Woolf’s famous quote (“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction") and introducing us to a bouquet of incredible, uncompromised female characters, an investigative yet tender camera challenges the boundaries of gendered social roles and immerses in the micro-universe of absolute freedom and self-determination.

A Shelter of One’s Own

NR 2024
Sea Fragment

The choice of this site was guided more by its location and function than by the architecture of the pool and its surroundings. The building is designed to be naturally and regularly flooded by the Atlantic Ocean tides. The film incorporates natural elements like tides, wind, rain, and light. I aim to depict a harmony between the body, the site's architecture, and the powerful nature of the location. The goal is to reveal a fragile balance between humans and nature on this ever-changing coastline. The creative process was intuitive and improvised, influenced by the moment and contributions from the dancer, director, tides, and weather.

Sea Fragment

NR 2024
Ghosts of Hard, chapter 2

In August 2022, a group of squatters entered an abandoned building in Marseille. Inside, they uncovered the forgotten remnants of Jean-Pierre’s life – hidden among decaying papers and neglected VHS tapes – a treasure trove of the Mineshaft founder’s archives. Piece by piece, they began to uncover a history of pleasure, transgression, and community. Guided by a voice-over, they navigated Jean-Pierre’s intimate space, uncovering a story of defiance and desire, preserved in the materials he left behind.

Ghosts of Hard, chapter 2

NR 2024
xena's body (a menstrual auto-investigation using an iphone)

This doomscroll documentary explores the relationship between the iPhone screen and director‘s own body. Is this device the postmodern version of the small bathroom mirror used for self-exploration? Or is it much closer, not in front of but inside my body? “Out of my desire to wrest something from the vanity of doomscrolling and regain power over the data I give my phone, without even thinking about it, I've tried to document this field/counter-field that unites us and its strangeness.“

xena's body (a menstrual auto-investigation using an iphone)

NR 2024