La Fille Renne
Directing
Biography
La Fille Renne is a non-binary photographer, filmmaker and tattoo artist from Lyon (France). They are passionate about analog photography, ecology, osteology, the Arctic and intimacy. They direct short movies on film alone and in collective with Laure Giappiconi and Elisa Monteil about ecology or queerness and sexuality. Their films have been screened at numerous festivals around the world, including Sundance, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Norwegian Short Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Go Short, Les Filministes, RIDM, Leiden Shorts, Côté Court, Lago Film Fest, etc.
Known For
The blurred portrayal of a young woman as she moves through three steps of her sexuality.
While I’m Still Breathing
A melodic and meditative exploration of the joys of the fist.
Fist
A woman begins a striptease in a strange place..
Alive
A short film that follows the diary of a trans-masculine person who sees his own and others' views of his body change during his transition. Between desire, apprehension and questioning. From there, comfort grows with people who share this experience.
Our Joyful Endings
A sophisticatedly explicit exploration of a girl’s first experience with masturbation.
Mermaid
The measure of drowning is an ecosexual fable about breathing better even when drowning, finding ways to resist the collapse of life and re-nourishing desires.
The measure of drowning
A lyrical voyage to the Hebrides and Faroe Islands. The hazy images shimmer in ever changing colours, their emphatic materiality giving expression to the magic of the locations. The voiceover weaves subjective impressions and historical facts into a dense narrative of life with – and about – the whales in these regions. The film reflects on subsistence farming, biodiversity, and endangered marine mammals.
Chasing Whales
On the small stage of a theater, a woman begins a strange dance...
The Exit is Found on the Inside
A woman remembers her past loves...
Love
A joyous and sexual ode to sorority.
Dancing Bodies
A film about genderfluidity and desire.
Genderfluid
Crafted from archive footage, There Once was A Puffin explores one aspect of the relationship between the Atlantic puffin and the European coastal populations, who consume it. Between traditional hunting, declining colonies and climate change.