Co-directed with Ariane Lorrain
(A work in progress) This documentary follows the creation of carpet across the mountains of Zagros in Western Iran, the land of Bakhtiaris. Wool is the guiding thread that traverses the worlds of weavers, dyers and shepherds, revealing nomadic and sedentary cultures through labour. Carpets weave the social fabric of their lives, giving it form as well as colour. The work is hard, and is gradually being devalued by the outside world - but their lives are redeemed because of the love they feel for their traditions.
Short Fiction, 20 min, Colour, HD
Love and compassion translate into physical acts when words can not express the grief or radiate the love Antoine and Alice have for Lise, Antoine's mom, before she leaves for palliative care. Body gestures mark every moment of her last day at home.
Produced by Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2014
Conceived as a curatorial device to provoke a debate, the documentary Misleading Innocence (tracing what a bridge can do) takes its cue from the controversial and never fully clarified story of Long Island’s low bridges, which were a series of overpasses commissioned in the 1920s by American public administrator Robert Moses across the parkways to the leisure areas of the island including the famous Jones Beach. The design of the bridges effectively prevented the passage of buses and limited access to upper-middle-class New Yorkers with cars.
Mentioned for the first time in 1974 in Roberto Caro’s Pulitzer Prize–winning The Power Broker, and quoted by the philosopher of science Langdon Winner in his seminal text “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” (1980), this story—whether reality or fiction, parable or urban myth—raises many urgent questions about the relationships between architecture and social form, secrecy and control, and the morality of power and technology.
Press
CCA Introduction, CCA special event, Misleading Innocence on Domus
Machincuepa Circo Social is a non-profit organization which attempts to identify mexican communities where children are facing a social struggles. They use circus as a form of social intervention for empowering children. This documentary explores the ways that art creates social experiences.
16mm black and white, non-sync sound, 6min
Documentary, Nomadic life, Qashqai, Black Tent, 5min
Short Fiction, short, one take, 7 min
