2024 / France / 16mm/S8 / 21 minutes Based on Franck André Jamme’s poem Conches, Banners, Sacred Leaves, exploring his early travels to Nepal and later to Rajasthan to seek out the origins of Tantric paintings used to awaken heightened states of consciousness. We had adopted an ancient code, we made it ours. Although it…
2023 / Germany, France / 16mm, S8 / 12 minutes Remembering my last visit with Mary Bauermeister in her garden in Rösrath. A reflection on her work and her memories of our teacher Frédéric Lionel. Ma dernière visite avec Mary Bauermeister dans son jardin à Rösrath. Ses réflexions sur ce jardin et ses souvenirs de…
2020 / France, Spain, Scotland / 16mm and S8 / 58 minutesWith Mary Bauermeister, Denis Gril, Ximena Kilroe and Sidi Saïd “What remains of emotions, dreams, desires, when one disappears?” At once a real and an inner voyage, stemming from a near-death experience in the mountains north of Malaga, how can one express the upheaval…
2021 / France / 16mm/S8 / 17 min. A meditation on time and memory, moving between past and present, between lost messages and footage filmed years ago. The film follows the path I took each week when I went to visit my teacher and friend Frédéric Lionel in Paris. It follows my return to his…
2016 / France / S8 / 13 minutesCamera: Baba Hillman, Magali TrautmannMusic: György Ligeti, sonata for solo cello. Aurélienne Brauner, cello. 2016 / France / S8 / 13 minutesCaméra: Baba Hillman, Magali TrautmannMusic: György Ligeti, sonate pour violoncelle seul. Aurélienne Brauner, violoncelle. 5 cité de la Roquette, is one of a series of three films…
2013, USA16mm, colour & b/w3 minutes, sound Lucienne Delyle, Tsygan the dog, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and a mantis meet in the desert to take the waters and sing of love. An anarchistic exploration of mythologies and languages of romantic love and illusion combining legend, cartoon and dream. Lucienne Delyle, Tsygan le chien, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky…
2012 / France / 16mm, colour / 4 minutes, silentCamera: Baba Hillman, Michael Rice A return after many years to the home of a beloved teacher. I am less than a trace returning to this garden, but I am here and my heart turns, hearing again, though differently, the songs that hang here still, in…
2010 / France / HD video / 80 minutes Fati, 23, and Aissata, 16, live in the banlieue north of Paris, in a cité called “La Rose des Vents.” Their father emigrated from Mauritania to France 40 years ago to work on the assembly line at Citroën. Shot over a period of three years, the…
2008 / France / 16mm & S8 / 8 minutes Tu touches ce qui t’entoure dans un lieu partagé avec la caméra; à travers ce que tu touches, à travers une chambre, un escalier, un autre corps, comme ça tu commences à exister, à vivre, à désirer – à travers cette mort de toi-même et…
2004 / France / 16mm/S8 / 93 minutesCamera: Fernando de Azevedo, Léna Rouxel, Baba HillmanAdditional Camera: Corinne Bergas, Adele Horne, Scott Janz, K. StricklandCast: Valérie Crouzet, Laura Diaz del Corral, Daniel St. Pedro, and Baba Hillman An exploration of desire, transience and memory through the experience of an exile, one whose relationship to country, language…