An American teenager conditioned to perceive gun violence as a game, and his hormonally unbalanced trans-mother, who is struggling with access to hormones, are challenged by an inevitable adrenaline crash on their journey to Candyland.
Playhouse
Writer Director
Short Film USA 2009-2013
An American middle-class Jane Doe dreams of becoming next Playhouse icon while having problems to pay her mortgage. Evicted from both her dreams of celebrity and homeownership, she experiences Lacanian foreclosure and confuses facts and illusions.
Unwanted
Writer Director Short Film USA 2005-2012
An unidentified teenager is confronted to her unborn child as she makes the ultimate life and death decision about an unintended pregnancy.
Hansel and Gretel
coWriter coDirector
Short Film France 2009-2010
Adapted from German fairy tale by the Grimm brothers in which a young brother and his little sister are threatened by a cannibalistic witch, Hansel and Gretel questions food distribution in the world; where on one side of the planet governments spend billions to fight obesity and on the other millions face starvation.
The Last Supper
coWriter coDirector
Short Film France 2007-2009
The Poem of Creation, one of the first human manuscripts dating from Babylon, narrates that as Mardok (god of fatherhood) prepared to go to Hades (hell with no return) to liberate Istar (goddess of Motherhood), Sarpanitou (god of light) warned him. “You are going to face Istar. You will make love to her and once fertilized, she will devour you and then she shall createa child to your image.”
Confession II
writer Director Short Film Draft USA 2010-2016
A critically acclaimed sculptor going through art block is hunted by the soul of his latest masterpiece as an investigation around multiple disappearances unfolds.
Confession I
Cowriter and Creative Director Photographic Storyboard France 2010
A critically acclaimed sculptor going through art block is hunted by the soul of his latest masterpiece as an investigation around multiple disappearances unfolds.
Performance
Out of the Shadow
Scenographer Performance Japan 2015
Performed during the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima’s atomic bomb, Out of the Shadow stages the struggle of those A-bomb survivors who have not yet been officially recognized as Hibakusha and therefore don’t count with the government’s support to treat their illnesses caused by internal exposure to radiation.
Eloge of Movement
Director Documentary France 2009-2014
A group of dancers affected by Huntington, hereditary neurodegenerative illness characterized by involuntary movements, engage in a series of contemporary dance workshops that lead to a protocol of neuroscientific research to measure the contribution of dance for those affected by the incurable and stigmatizing disease.
Color Theory
Writer Director
Performance usa 2011
Color Theory uses SMPTE colors to question collective trauma broadcasted live during the most televised catastrophes in history, which took place in a Reality TV hooked nation.
SMPTE color bars are TV test patterns that give screen engineers an indication of how video signals may have been altered and what adjustments must be made to bring them back to specs.
Portrait of my Time
Writer Director
Performance usa 2007
The simplest surrealist act "consists in going into a street with revolvers in your fist and shooting blindly into the crowd”, André Breton, founder of surrealism, claimed in his Manifesto.
From 2015-21, over 19,000 people were shot and wounded or killed in mass shootings in the United States, the most heavily armed and "surrealist" civilian population.
