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2014
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).
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2014
"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...
2012
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.
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Presented at the gallery Apollonia Art Exchanges in Strasbourg (2008) and on a theater stage...
2011
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.
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Presented at the gallery Apollonia...
2011
[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...
2010
A short film about old ladies who refuse to go to a retirement home and decide to stay at home.
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Written and filmed in Brussels by Mathilde Benignus and edited by Aurélien Thomson at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD - Belgium).
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2008
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).
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Presented at the gallery Apollonia Art Exchanges and at Zone d'art in Strasbourg.
More to...
2008
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...
2005
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...