CV
Awards, Grants :
2024 - Best Experimental Film, Aasha International Film Festival, Nashik, Maharashtra, India: Rain Again
2023 - Best experimental short film, Bharatha Desam International Film Festival, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India: Rain Again
2023 - Nominee for Best Experimental International (1:00-5:00 Minutes Category), Couch Film Festival, Toronto, Canada: Assis (Seated)
2023 - Nominee for Best Experimental and Best Cinematography, Ultra Short Category, Alternative Film Festival, spring edition, Toronto, Canada: Assis (Seated)
2022 - Special Jury Award, Best Experimental Short Film, Santa Dev International Film Festival , Tamil Nadu, India: Assis (Seated)
2022 - Best One Minute Short Film, Thilsri International Film Festival, Karaikudi, Talmil Nadu, India: Assis (Seated)
2022 - Favourite 2022 of Exploding Cinema, Arthouse, Jersey, UK: Join the Herd (Rejoindre le troupeau)
2022 - Best Video SOS Cinemateque 1Minuto Festival, São Paulo, Brazil: Supply
2021 - Drac Île de France, Départements des arts visuels - Allocation d’installation d’atelier pour les travaux d’aménagement et l’acquisition de matériel - AIA 2021, Grant, Paris, France
2018 - Prix du Jury L’Œil d’Oodaaq, Vidéo/Bars, Nantes, France: Shooting Star
2010 - Institut français, Programme Hors les Murs Residency , Section Film Video, Cinema, Montréal, Québec, Canada: Je suis un indien Pontiac
2008 - Best of Independent Exposure, San Francisco, CA, USA: Le saut dans le vide (The Leap Into the Void)
2002 - Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival, Experimental Shorts Competition, Chicago, Illinois, USA: We Cannot Exhibit It
2002 - Best Musical and Audience Choice Awards, Thaw, Festival of Film Video and Digital Media, Institute for Cinema and Culture, Iowa City, Iowa, USA: Strong Enough
2002 - Highlight Selection, Cinematexas, Austin, Texas, USA: Cul en l'air (My Levitating Butt)
2000 - Audience Award, Best New Media, Festival du Cinema Francophone en Acadie, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada: Broom Ballet
1999 - Special Mention, Videoarcheology, Paris, France / Sofia, Bulgaria: Head Egg
1999 - Silver Spire Award, San Francisco International Film Festival,, Golden Gate Award Competition, New Visions Video, San Francisco, USA: Workman
1998 - Third Prize Experimental, NAP Video Festival, New Arts Program, Lehigh Valley & Berks, Pennsylvania, USA: Front Room
1998 - CNAP (Centre national des arts plastiques), grant, Paris, France
1997 - Third Prize, 8th Lesbisch-Schwule Filmtage, Hamburg, Germany, Front Room
1997 - Prix DRAC Auvergne, Videoformes, Clermont Ferrand, France - C'est le veau qui bêle
1992 - DAC Paris (Direction des affaires culturelles de la ville de Paris), France, publication grant, "L'Impossible graveur..." Ed Galerie D.Maniere
Selected screenings, festivals, exhibitions:
2024
Melting Walls Volume1 at murmurcontemporary (exhibition), Montreux, Switzerland
Bleu Paris Film Festival - Off, Le Luminor Hotel de Ville, Paris, France
Saturday's Open Screening with Chicago Filmmakers!, Chicago, IL, USA
UMW Mediawall's (exhibition), University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, USA
Aasha International Film Festival, Nashik, Maharashtra, India
2023
International Video Art Forum, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
Festival Video nodoCARACAS, Caracas, Venezuela
RISC (Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas), Marseille, France
Beijing International Short Film Festival, Beijing, China
Expephab (online), Marseille, France
Black Cat Award International Film Festival, La Paz, Bolivia
Esto es Para Esto, Exhibidora de Cine, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Bharatha Desam International Film Festival, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
moving images are still images, curated by Greg Jenkins, produced by The New Arts Foundation, LA Art Week, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Mister Vorky, International Festival of Cinema Art, Ruma, Serbia
performance : Cul en l'air (My Levitating Butt-1997) pirates the opening of the Palais de Tokyo-June 15, Paris, France
One Shot 21th International Short Film Festival, Yerevan, Armenia
Triple Axel Competition, 39th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
31st Croatian One-Minute Film Festival, Pozega, Croatia
Azores Fringe Festival, Azores, Portugal
5th edition of the Montenegrian online smartphone international film festival (MOSIFF), Podgorica, Montenegro
The Boloho Series exhibition at the Chinese European Art Center (CEAC), Xiamen, China
Nominee for Best Experimental International (1:00-5:00 Minutes Category), Couch Film Festival, Toronto, Canada: Assis (Seated)
Nominee for Best Experimental and Best Cinematography, Ultra Short Category, Alternative Film Festival, spring edition, Toronto, Canada: Assis (Seated)
Bleu Paris festival de court-métrage, Le Luminor Hotel de Ville, Paris, France
The Boloho Series exhibition the East East, Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Boloho Series exhibition the East East, screens Shibuya Crossing and Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
1 Minuto Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
2022
Santa Dev International Film Festival, Tamil Nadu, India
Thilsri International Film Festival , Karaikudi, Talmil Nadu, India
Favourites 2022 of Exploding Cinema, Arthouse, Jersey, UK
The Boloho Series at Het Nieuwe Instituut (online) Rotterdam, NL
The Boloho Series at Boloho Space, Guangzhou, China
Esto Es Para Esto - Exhibidora de Cine, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
VerticalMovie Festival, Rome, Italy
Les Inattendus - Festival de films hors normes, Lyon, France
Mobile Cinema (Deptford X Fringe), London, UK
Life Screenings Short Film Festival, Orlando, FL, USA
VertiFilms Mexico , Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Mister Vorky International One Minute and Short Film Festival, Ruma, Serbia
One Shot Film Festival, NPAK Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia
Exploding Cinema show at the Cinema Museum, London, UK
1Minuto, São Paulo, Brazil
2021
Blackboard International Film Festival, Elambachi, Trikaripur, North Kerala, India
Interface Video Art Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
6th International Short Film Festival Pune India 21 (ISFFPI)
VII Festival Video nodoCCS, Caracas, Venezuela
34th Rencontres Internationales Les Instants Vidéo, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Exploding Cinema, London, UK
"One Shot" International Short Film Festival, Yerevan, Armenia
Encuentro Internacional de Cineastas 2021 at El Expendio, Monterrey , Nuevo Leon, Mexico
The Incurable Caravan’s Online Car Show, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
International Video Art Forum at AlMashtal Creative Space, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
XXIVe Rencontres Internationales Traverse 2021, Toulouse, France
International Video Art Forum, Dammam, Saoudi Arabia
13è édition des Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinémas (RISC), Marseille, France
Encuentro Internacional de Cineastas 2021, Esto Es Para Esto, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
2020
Soanyway Magazine, (October 2020, Issue 7), Leeds, UK
"One Shot" International Short Film Festival, Armenian Center For Contemporary Experimental Art / NPAK, Yerevan, Armenia
September Cutlog Screening, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Vidéothèque Festival du Film Court d'Angoulême, "La cave à films" (selection FIFCA 2017, FIFCA 2019), Angoulême, France
Exploding Detonation, Exploding Cinema, London, UK
66 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, online open screening, Oberhausen, Germany
Les Inattendus, Biennial, Lyon, France
SSA/Cutlog Artist Moving Image exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2019
Edition 5 of Megacities Shortdocs, Paris, France
Block Arty, Peekskill Film Festival, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA
The Lift-Off Sessions, London, UK
Soanyway Magazine, (Volume 2, Issue 3, June 2019), Leeds, UK
WUFF7, Winnipeg Cinematheque, Winnipeg, Man, Canada
Festival du Film Court d'Angoulême, Angoulême, France
12e Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas (RISC), Marseille, France
Rencontres Traverse Vidéo, Musée des Abattoirs-Frac Occitanie, Toulouse, France
Exploding Cinema at the Others, London, UK
RPM Festival, University of Massachussetts, Boston, MA, USA
Paesaggi Concettuali, Ospizio Giovani Artisti, Rome, Italy
2018
Vidéo/Bars, curated by Le Oodaaq, Nantes, France
MiMo, Milano Mobile Film Festival, Milano, Italy
Un Festival c'est trop court, Nice, France
WNDX, Festival of Moving Image, Carte Blanche Les Inattendus, Winnipeg, Man, Canada
4 Bengals International (Short Film Festival), Bengalore, Karnataka, India
Oh Neigh! Exploding Cinema , the Horse Hospital, London, UK
Eurovideo Festival Européen des Arts Videos at:
- Théatre de Liège, Belgium
- Le Manège, Scène Nationale, Maubeuge, France
- Le Casino, Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
- CEZAM, Centar za multimedijalnu produkcuju, Podgorica, Montenegro
- La Nuova Pesa, Centro Arte Contemporanea a Roma, Rome, Italy
- Cinema Zuid, Antwerp, Belgium
and on RTBF and RTC
Rencontres Traverse Video, Toulouse, France
Les Inattendus, Lyon, France
2017
"Lorient espaces urbains en transformation" Galerie d'art Collège de Kerdurand, Riantec, France
San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA, USA
"Artscience the new and history", program curated by RISC, Sala Conferenze "Marco Biagi", Bologna, Italy
Festival du Film Court d'Angoulême, Angoulême, France
Cinésciences curated by RISC, College Clair Soleil, Marseille, France
aDifferent Festival, curated by aCinema, Milwaukee, WI, USA
2016
10e Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas, RISC, Marseille, France
Cheap curated by Vaginal Davis and Marc Siegel, Mezipatra Queer Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Vinokino, Turku - Helsinki - Oulu, Finland
Un Festival c'est trop court, Nice, France
L'Observatoire du Livre, Punto de Fuga program at l'Observatoire de Haute Provence, France
Winnipeg Underground Flm Festival, Winnipeg, Man, Canada
Hidden Door, Alchemy screening, Edimburgh, Scotland, UK
Crossroads organized by San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA, USA
2015
9e Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas,(RISC), Marseille, France
Un festival c'est trop court!, Nice, France
Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
Festival du Peu, curated by Heliotrope, Bonson, France
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Man, Canada
Commemorating the 20th edition of the Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
Exploding Cinema's, at Ivy House, London, UK
Focus, Best of Videoformes 1989 - 2004, Maison de la Culture, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2014
"Le triple ecran", Le corps numérique, Théatre Liberté, Toulon, France
- Peckham Liberal Club
- Exploding Seenema at Shuffle Festival, London, UK
2013
Exploding Cinema's Phone Made Films Show at
- Cinema Museum, London
- Canterbury Arms, Brixton
- Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield
- Stubnitz Show, London, UK
FID, Festival International de Cinema, Marseille, France