Julien Levy
Directing
Biography
Julien Levy studied philosophy in France. Later, as a musician, he travels around the world with his band within the hardcore punk scene. While touring, he shoots his first photography series, soon to be shown in galleries. He then moves to New York City. Over there, he intensifies his work as a multimedia artist (installations, films, artbooks…), before spreading his message through cinema and literature. Today, Julien works as a writer and a director. His work still adopts a do-it-yourself and highly independent method, deeply rooted in radical subcultures. Julien Levy now shares his time between Tokyo and Paris.
Known For
In the troubled night of Seoul on the verge of apocalypse, Niko, a penniless scriptwriter, works a part-time job as a companion for people who have lost their keys. When she can no longer satisfy her longing for true love in this once melancholic, sensual, and bustling city, she disappears. Her boyfriend Jeremy and their new friend Ji-eun start looking for the missing Niko and become entangled in a love triangle. At last, Niko finds a new, reckless, and ultimate way to express her feelings.
Niko
Home Is Where Your Heart Aches is the story of Kat, a beautiful, spirited New Yorker. Her only trouble is that she falls in love quickly - way too quickly. It's as if in matters of love, she never studied the boundaries, the games, the rules. Every encounter turns into a break-up scene. As her situation deteriorates, Kat recourses to extreme measures... In a world that has almost killed it, love turns into an act of revolt.
Home Is Where Your Heart Aches
The only commendable reaction is rebellion.
There Is No Tomorrow
Music video for the song Poison Lips by Vitalic. Shot between two typhoons in september 2009 in Tokyo.
Poison Lips
A chaptered short about connection, heartbreak, and pain.
Things To Scream At The Sun
From there all I can hear is the batting of your eyelashes is an installation (photography, text and video) curated by Chanel, and made exclusively for Julien Levy’s exhibition at Chanel Nexus Hall.
From There All I Can Hear Is The Batting Of Your Eyelashes
This is a call for insurrection. Be a revolutionary. Break things. Read. Create.
Without You I'm Nothing
Tokyo, 2018. A small laundromat at night. Three young women are making fun of Anna for caring too much about her love life. But they will soon regret it as Anna's revenge plot will haunt them all night long. What follows is a pursuit through the streets of Tokyo during which fear and attraction collide. Danger is never far in this film borrowing codes from both Hitchcock films and independent Japanese thrillers.