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    I am an artist filmmaker and researcher.

    I am a PhD Candidate in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of Arts at Université Paris 8, ESTCA laboratory.  My artistic research project reflects on screen capture in post-internet film and art. I am currently a ATER/Assistant Professor in Visual Studies and Digital Art at the Université Gustave Eiffel, after having taught for 3 years at Université Paris 8. I was recently a DAAD fellow at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (Germany). During the year 2023-2024, I will  be an artist in residence at Casa de Velázquez in Madrid and I am giving artistic research workshops and lecture-performances at the Filmuniversität Konrad Wolf, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Marseille and Locarno Film Festival.

    I co-founded and co-direct the research and creation collective After Social Networks. 

    My work combines interdisciplinary research with the production of essay films, video installations and performances reflecting on the modes of subjectivation produced specifically by computational digital capitalism. I am particularly interested in studying, from a feminist and critical perspective, the discourses and imaginaries that circulate in virtual communities as symptomatic fictions of a state of the world. My film La Mécanique des fluides is the first of a series of films – that will be followed by hold on for dear life, currently in development, selected in Berlinale Short Form Station – both proposing a reflection on the processes of individuation in its articulation with algorithms and digital flows of data and capital.

     

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    “More than a highlighting and screening of these mechanisms, both technological and internal, her practice contextualizes and moors them with a feminist prism to the concrete social realities they underlie: the marginalization of certain people, the various forms of economic and emotional precariousness but also the expression of an unabashed misogyny, or the mirages of utopian digital currencies. Each film in its subject, its content and its raw material is found coexisting in filigree with virtual and speculative communities, that only the internet makes possible in that it offers them spaces of gathering, discussion, mediums, algorithms to forge systems of beliefs and common languages, to flesh them out in accessible discourses and to put them into acts and practices in videos, stagings of oneself: incel communities (involuntary singles), communities of crypto-influencers and investors, communities of reality shifters (reaching an altered state of consciousness ) … All are the fruits, more or less vitiated, of computational digital capitalism.

    In contrast to the usual consumption of these images and infinitesimal dimensions that is the hyper-object Internet, the cinematographic gesture, but also its setting in space by the exhibition medium, allows to put offline, to return to a human scale, to leave the reign of the individual-tyrant in an impossible interactivity and a collective experience of visionnage, and to slip thus towards a more captive and more critical attentional regime.”

    [Andréanne Béguin, Catalogue of the 67th Salon de Montrouge]

     

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    My medium-length filmLa Mécanique des fluides (2022), supported by the CNC – DICRéAM and the EUR ArTeC, had its world premiere at FIFIB Bordeaux (France) – where it won the Grand Prix of the Contrebande Competition, the France Televisions Best Short Film Director of all competitions award and the BrefCinema Best Short Film of the Contrebande Competition award – and its international premiere at DOK Leipzig’s International Short Film Competition (Germany). It also won the 2023 Experimental Work Award of La Scam, Best Documentary award at IndieLisboa, Best Film of the Un Impulso Colectivo Competition at D’A Film Festival Barcelona, Best Short Film of the Documentary Competition at SEMINCI Valladolid and the Expanded Media award at Stuttgarter Filmwinter, among other awards. Other festivals and screenings include Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel or FICCI.

    I have edited several issues of academic journals (Multitudes, Images Secondes, Contratexto), published in international journals (Interfaces, Digital War, Marges, Augenblick, Écrans, Études digitales, Studies in Documentary Film) and participated in books, such as Captures d’écran (Yellow Now, 2022), L’art tout contre la machine (Hermann, 2021), Codes, races, climats, habitudes (Les Presses du réel, 2023) or Radical film at the dawn of a new society (K-Verlag, 2023). I am a member of the editorial board of La Revue Documentaires.

    I am a 2023 Berlinale Talent and have been artist in residence at the venues La Métive (FR), Vidéoformes (FR), Maison Artagon (FR) and (upcoming) GuestRoom Maribor (Slovenia). My work will be exhibited at the Salon de Montrouge 2023. 

    I graduated in Fiction Filmmaking from ESCAC (Superior School of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Catalonia, Barcelona) and hold a Master in Contemporary Cinema and Audiovisuals Studies from University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and the International Master in Audiovisual and Cinema Studies (IMACS) from Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Paris 10 – Nanterre University.

    Interested in editing, I worked as a video editor at PlayGround Magazine and was (briefly) educated in film montage at the EICTV (San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba).

    I have been the Festivals Coordinator of the international film sales agent Luxbox based in Paris.

    I have published poems in some online magazines and fanzines (El Coloquio de los Perros, digo.palabra.txt, El vuelo del flamenco, Manifiesto azul…), and a poetry plaquette with the publisher Ad Minimum: Amnesia of the birds (2016).

    I have recently started translating (Marie-José Mondzain’s Images (à suivre), into spanish, for Metales Pesados (Chile).

    ACTIVITIES
    PUBLICATIONS
    NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
    EDITORIAL WORK
    CONFERENCE & SYMPOSIUMS PAPERS
    • “Un homme vu de loin. Animisme et pensée écologique dans Histoire(s) de glace“, Colloque « L’Archipel Raoul Ruiz », 31 may – 2 june 2023, Université Bordeaux Montaigne.
    • “Films machinima: notes sur un cinéma amateur virtuel”, conference « Les pratiques amateurs. Eclaircies du cinéma », 8-10 november 2022, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne.
    • “L’image que jamais nous ne verrons deux fois. Télévision, plateformes de livestreaming et cinéma face à l’illusion d’immédiatie”, with Ariane Papillon, Colloque International des Études Françaises et Francophones du XX et XXIème siècles “Média/médiums”, University of Pittsburgh, 24-26 March 2022.
    • « S’approprier l’effondrement », with Allan Deneuville, Ariane Papillon & Ysé Sorel, symposium « L’art face aux urgences écologiques », organised by the journal Marges, 9 & 16 Octobre 2021, online.
    • “Sexe, mensonges et vidéo. À propos des régimes de vérité de l’intime”, in the conference “La preuve par l’image. Le médium contre les média”, organised by Dork Zabunyan and Aurélie Ledoux at Paris 10-Nanterre University, 23-24 June 2021.
    • “The Importance of Being Broadcast. Politics and Poetics of Virtual Visuality in Present. Perfect. by Shegze Zhu”, 109th College of Art Association Annual Conference (USA), 10-13th February 2021, online.
    • “Migrant Images. Migratory and digital flows in contemporary documentary cinema”, virtual conference “Arrêt sur images”, organised by the research team “Archiver le présent” of the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM, Canada), 6-9 October 2020.
    • “Impossible movements: refugee crisis and the between-the-images in Havarie by Philip Scheffner”, in the international virtual symposium “(Im)possibility”, organized by the doctoral students of the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies of Harvard University, at Harvard University (USA), 8-10 October 2020.
    • “Common Images. What post-media does to cinema”, in the international conference “Critique de la Raison Automatique. Bêtise(s) et intelligence(s) de la numérisation du monde”, at the Gaîté Lyrique and the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, fall 2020.
    • “Appropriations and critical diversions of the vernacular video: the vernacular genre as a cinematographic genre” in the international colloquium “Les manières de faire vernaculaires”, organized by the laboratory LARCA, at the University of Paris 7 and at the INHA, from January 22nd to 24th, 2020.
    • « Poétique de la navigation comme flux de pensée: « Sitting in Darkness » de Graeme Arnfield », International Congress « L’essai médiatique », organized by the labs LISAA (Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée UPEM), EHIC (Université de Limoges), the Université de Bologne and the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, at the Université Paris Est, 25-27 November 2019.
    • « Films on crisis, in crisis. Concerning « Havarie » by Philip Scheffner », International Congress « Filmic and Media Narratives of the Crisis: Contemporary Representations », organized by the Université Panteion, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Université Haute-Alsace, Centre d’Études sur la Communication Européenne, l’IRMÉCCEN and the PHILéPOL of Université Paris Descartes, at the French Institute of Athens, Greece, 7-8 November 2019.
    • “Ecologies of the videosphere: about ‘Roman National'”, at the International Congress “L’art tout contre la machine”, organized by the Collège des Bernardins, the laboratory RIRRA21 (University Paul Valery Montpellier 3) and the laboratory ESTCA (Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis) at the Collège des Bernardins and the INHA, Paris, 10-11 October 2019.
    • “Silvered Water Syria Self-Portrait: the camera, a weapon against the regime?”, lectured in the conference “Regime-critical media and Arab diaspora: challenges and opportunities after the Arab spring”, organized by the Mediatized Diaspora Team: Controversial Policies among Arab Media Users in Europe (MEDIASP), Department of Intercultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 5-6 September 2019.
    • “Dialectizing YouTube, reconstructing the revolution”, lectured in the Ludovia Summer University “Digital and representations”, organized by the association Culture Numérique, in Ax-les-Thermes, France, 20-23 August 2019.
    • “Desktop films: the act of seeing with someone else’s eyes”, lecture in “Radical Ventriloquism: Acts of speaking through and speaking for” organized by Lee Campbell Christabel Harley, London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT), Centre for Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths, University of London, 5-6 July 2019.
    • “Vernacular video in the post-Internet era” lectured at the Conference ” Forms and places of the virtual: first cartography “, organized by Guillaume Soulez, Olga Kobryn, Éric Thouvenel, Ángel Quintana and Lisa Zaher. IRCAV Laboratory (Sorbonne Nouvelle University – Paris 3) and University of Girona, at the Centre of the University of Chicago in Paris, 20-21 June 2019.
    • “Confession in the Web 2.0 era: ‘Testament Series’ by Natalie Bookchin (2009-2017)”, in the workshop “Pour une cartographie des récits de soi: de l’autobiographie aux webcams” of the Annual Congress of the APFUCC, Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1-4 June 2019.
    • “Recycling vernacular video from areas in social and political conflict”, lectured at the conference ‘What is Radical film? – Radical film Network Meeting’, organised by Julia Lazarus and Ursula Böckler in cooperation with the Harun Farocki Institute, at the Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin, 2-5 May 2019.
    OTHER CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
    • Roland Barthes among the machines @ Long night of dreaming about the future of intelligence, 9th August, Locarno Film Festival 2023
    • « Post-internet essay films and open source investigations », workshop at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Potsdam, Germany, june 2023.
    • Participation in the round table « L’Année documentaire » organised by Tënk at the Clermont-Ferrand International Shortfilm Festival 2023
    • « Thinking, investigating and creating after social networks », conference with Allan Deneuville at the École supérieure d’arts et médias de Caen/Cherbourg, January 23rd 2023.
    • « Open source counter investigations », conference with Allan Deneuville at the École supérieure d’art et design de Saint-Étienne, February 3rd 2023.
    • Participation in a conversation around the film HUA HUA’s Dazzling World and its Myriad Temptations as part of the carte blanche at the feminist film club TONNERRE of @clitrevolution at FIFIB Bordeaux, October 2022.
    • Participation to the round table “Documenter, expérimenter et réfléchir les socialités numériques”, international conference Remodeler nos interactions numériques. La subjectivité à l’ère du post-cinéma, Centre Pompidou & Columbia Global Center, Paris, 22-24 may 2022.
    • Performed lecture « Heureux qui comme Dylan », international conference Images en tr@nsit, Aix Marseille Université, 27-29 April 2022.
    • Performed lecture “CINEMA ft. Yellow Vests – We’re coming to get you at home (Remix)”, with Seumboy Vrainom :€, in the international conference “La manifestation politique au cinéma. Continuités, ruptures, détournements de l’expérience contestataire “, organized by Camille Bui and Raphaël Jaudon, at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, on January 31st and February 1st, 2020.
    • Video lecture “Video en mp plz: porno-politics of the visual virtual”, with Allan Deneuville, in the international online conference “The circulation of images”, organized by the Center of Excellence Jean Monnet IMAGO (École normale supérieure, Paris) and the the University of Geneva (Chair of Digital Humanities), in partnership with Purdue University and the Beaux Arts de Paris, 15-18th June 2020.
    • Participation in the online round table « Appropriation of domestic cinema » organised by the FICC – Festival de Cine de Cartagena (Spain), 25th November 2020.
    • Presentation, with Allan Deneuville, of the activities of the association After Social Networks, Rencontres ArTeC, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, 6-7 October 2021.
    ORGANISATION of SCIENTIFIC and ARTISTIC EVENTS
    • Programming and organisation of the festival OSINT et cinéma documentaire: contre-enquêtes et regard civil, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, 14-15 December 2023.
    • Programming of the event Après la traversée at the Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris, January 2024.
    • Organisation of the event En quête d’enquêtes, bArTeC program, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, 17 May 2022.
    • Organisation of the event  Internet dans le boudoir, part of the bArTeC program at La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, 1st February 2022.
    • Programmer of the Carte Blanche to the association “Après les réseaux sociaux” at the Festival MUTA, Peru.
    • Organisation of the conference+film screening “After Social Networks. Practices, Aesthetics and Ethics of an Ecology of User-generated Content” at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts Décoratifs and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, 27 June 2019. Co-organised with Allan Deneuville and Chloé Galibert-Laîné.
    • Organisation of the online artist residency “Media homes / Media Maison” of After Social Networks. November-december 2020.
    • Organisation of the online conference series in artistic research Les Images en Communs. Hosted by After Social Networks, online, may 2021 – december 2021.
    • Organisation of the artistic research workshop S’approprier l’Effondrement, hosted by After Social Networks, Poush + Campus Condorcet, juin 2021.
    • Member of the research project and co-organiser of the seminar Arts, écologies, transitions.
    TRANSLATION
    • Images (à suivre), Marie-José Mondzain, Ed. Metales Pesados, Chile, 2022. Co-translated with Ignacio Albornoz.
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