2016 As a foreigner in Germany with little knowledge of the language, I never could understand the words repeated at all underground and overland train stations in Hamburg. What was I supposed to do: in or out? I was uncertain, and worried about obeying the words uttered by the dark voice of the conductor. Stay back …
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FR 2002 Les Sept Saisons, has been selected as one of the ten best films of 2002 by Image mouvement of the Centre national de la Cinématographie. The Seven Saisons by Christian Besson 2002The film opens with the voice of its director, Nathalie David: From one autumn to the next I visited various exhibitions of …
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DE 2020 https://vimeo.com/486966317 As a tribute to Jacques Brel, I co-wrote this song with Marie-Laure Timmich, for the Franco-German duo LES MARIES. It was meant to be a sad song. It’s the story of a passion. Then Les Maries asked me to do a video clip. I chose to do an animation based on the drawings …
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2020 DE/FR Director’s statement I met Elias Crespin when I was making a documentary about his grandmother, the artist GEGO, for the Kunsthalle in Hamburg. In 2019, he asked me to make a short film for his major project in the Palais du Louvre: L’Onde du Midi.From the conversation we had with the artist in his …
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