Gaëlle Boucand
Directing
Biography
Since 2010, Gaëlle Boucand, an artist and cineaste, has focused on making films that are a blend between contemporary art and contemporary cinema. She has directed among others GONE TO CROATAN (2010), in which she follows a community of ravers, along with the trilogy — JJA (2012), CHANGE OF SCENERY (2015) and J.A. (2020) — a kaleidoscopic portrait of a man whose life is caught up in the 20th century history. Her films have been shown throughout various international art institutions (Paris Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthalle Mannheim, MAST Bologne, Bethanien Berlin, Athens and Thessaloniki Museums of Contemporary Art…) and have won awards in FID Marseille, Hors Pistes Festival in Beaubourg and Coté Court in Pantin. In 2015, she co-founded the production company Elinka Film with 4 other directors.
Known For
Jacob, an elderly man living in a luxurious villa near Geneva called Rosebud, has just changed his name for the third time and become a Swiss citizen. His granddaughter comes to visit to make a portrait of him. As she searches for a way to bring his story to life, Jacob abandons the project…
JA
Evolution and extinction from the point of view of rocks. A humid take on minerals, where sci-fi meets sci-fact. The geo-biosphere is a place of evolutionary possibility, where humans disappear but life endures.
Last Things
An 87-year-old man oversees the interior renovations of his luxurious property. Satisfied with his new house, he invites various people to come over to visit. This film is the second part of a trilogy that offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a highly unusual character.
Change of Scenery
After twenty years away in western Europe, Voin goes back to Bulgaria, his home country. While rediscovering places where he grew up, a mental journey is taking shape through time.
Voin
Elsa Brès' "Notes for les Sanglières" imagines an alliance between wild boars and people grounded on concepts of boarcentrism, ecofeminism and forms of communal living. Shot in the area of the Cévennes, in the South of France, the video brings together ideas, experiments, field recordings and fiction tracks that sketch the common struggle of human and animal rights.
Notes for les Sanglières
An eighty-five year old man, isolated in his luxurious house, tells the story of his economic success and the reasons for his exile in Switzerland. The multiple disputes between him and his acquaintances, and his relations to the place he now inhabits shape his narrative, which unfolds in alternating from one day to another, from one place to the other of his residence.
JJA
In the south of contemporary Italy, a community devotes itself to divinatory practices dating back to Roman antiquity, such as ornithomancy and the interpretation of celestial phenomena. In the midst of these tormented lands, a series of gestures and attitudes emerge, opening up new horizons.
Arancia Bruciata
Between two ages, between two countries, between two worlds - there her French grandparents with whom she spends her vacations; here the creative, collective and precarious Berlin life.