Singing apparition in the role of Lale Andersen's Lili Marlene (1939) by the ARTE documentary Beloved Enemy - The history of French-German relations. Directors: Christel Fomm and Martin Carazo-Mendes for Gruppe 5 Filmproduction (Cologne). --- More on ARTE Chanel....
"Madame rêve" is a performance about all the plurality of women inside me, where I recall both the good and bad encounters that have made me a woman. "One is not born, but rather becomes a woman" said Simone de Beauvoir. True, but which one? (FR) LES FEMMES EN...
Les passantes (the elderly) is a performance about old women's souvenirs in a retirement home. About the act of taking care and the fear of being forgotten. An old song with half of the lyrics missing. --- Presented at the gallery Apollonia Art Exchanges in Strasbourg (2008) and on a theater stage...
A performance about grandparents' portraits taken as both side of the same story. About the difficulty of transmission and the weight of familial history. A story of nails refusing to hang properly on the wall. And an old Bulgarian song, both sweet and violent, as the remembrance's trigger. --- Presented at the gallery Apollonia...
[EN] BEYOND THE WOODS A girl is returning home to her mother. She questions the silence about her grandmother. Coming back into this kitchen, crossing these woods, the girl retrieves her link with a story that hasn’t been told. [FR] PAR DELA LA FORET La fille revient voir la mère. La fille se...
A short film about old ladies who refuse to go to a retirement home and decide to stay at home. --- Written and filmed in Brussels by Mathilde Benignus and edited by Aurélien Thomson at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD - Belgium). ...
A performance about the little red riding hood, losing the way back home and a truck accident in the forest. Inspired by Charles Perrault well-known fairy tale and Klaus Nomi powerful interpretation of "A cold song" (Purcell). --- Presented at the gallery Apollonia Art Exchanges and at Zone d'art in Strasbourg. More to...
In "Black-Blanc-Biche" I recall my own teenage years where a girl has to act and dress up like a man to go out in the suburbs. The old traditional song "La complainte de la blanche biche" tells the story of a girl hunted by her own...
In October 2005, two kids died from electrocution by hiding in a power station to avoid a police interrogation, resulting in a power blackout. The incident ignited rising tensions about youth unemployment and police harassment in the poorer housing estates of French suburbs, resulting in weeks of...