Paraïso
Short film integrated into the performance Snow White – a white on white canvas – 2001.
Go West
A 52′ documentary film, 2003.
Art & Travel film festival
Tbilisi 2024
Across several deserts of the American West, in the 1960s, recognized, solitary artists,
weary of the world of show business or art galleries,
came to install a fourth dimension:
Marta Becket, Nancy Holt, Charles Ross, Ira Steiner.
Sand stars reflecting the reverse of stardom. Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona:
four states, four landscapes, four human utopias
matching the boundless measure of the human spirit.
If one swallow does not make a summer, which one does?
A history of oracles in the Mediterranean – 94′, 2007
What is an Oracle?
In all its forms, its rituals, its vows, its traces?
Where does the Oracle dwell?
Teaser
Apocalypse 2,2
Video 18′, 2009
Amorgos International Film
Festival, 2024
From Patmos, the Greek island at the far edge of the Dodecanese where
Saint John's APOCALYPSE was written.
Do the spaces we inhabit carry our visions,
or are we the ones through whom they arrive?
Another world – those who arrive by sea –
Video 33′, 2016
This film weaves together archival footage of migratory flows
across the world over the past ten years and imagery
captured on the River Seine in Paris between 2015 and 2016.
A secular prayer delivered by Erri de Luca.
Teaser
Facing Son 1.618
Video 11′, 2017
This photographic diary is the wordless chronicle of all the faces of a son,
from within a body, in gestation, until today,
his second birth, the slow, patient transformation
tested against a man's new profile and visage.
Teaser
My name is / I ask for the moon
Video, 59′, 2017
Women and men, they come from Afghanistan, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan, Chad.
They have fled a dictatorship, a war, or what remains unimaginable to us.
Over a period of four months, they learn French
at the Thot school, a diploma-granting French school for refugees
and asylum seekers. During these four months as well,
Manuela Morgaine – Envers Compagnie, in collaboration with Lucile Latour,
welcomed them to the Forum des Images to create a film.
Facing the camera, each of them wrote and recited a story in their mother tongue.
“My name is,” followed by the speaker’s first name, are the opening words
that unlock their story. It carries no subtitles, yet is illuminated by
archives offered to them or chosen by their own hand.
French, the host tongue, is spoken at the close to
translate for us a fragment of their tale.
“I ask for the moon” are the final words uttered
by each of them, like a vital yearning for an Horizon.
Excerpt