"Before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation." Auguste Rodin
A renowned aging sculptor seeking revival and an aspiring model chasing immortality are drawn into the twisted depths of the New York City art scene, where they become entangled with “the fire of their own creation.”
Candyland
WRITER Director
Short Film usa 2020-2024
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.
Eloge of Movement
Director
Short 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.
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 model suddenly exploded mid-runway like a kamikaze, paralyzing the fashion show—under the stunned eyes of Azzedine Alaïa and other VIPs.
Out of the Shadow
Mise en Scene Japan 2015
Out of the Shadows is a contemporary dance performance that sheds light on the forgotten Black Rain survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings inHiroshima and Nagasaki.
Color Theory
Writer Director
usa 2011
Color Theory uses SMPTE color bars to expose how collective trauma is shaped—and often anesthetized—by the aesthetics of live televised catastrophes, in a culture conditioned by full-color screen addiction.
Portrait of my Time
Writer Director
usa 2007
A Portrait of My Time stages what André Breton, founder of Surrealism, claimed in his Manifesto to be the simplest surrealist act, which 'consists in going into a street with revolvers in your fist and shooting blindly into the crowd.'
One Second
Writer Director
France 2005
A model suddenly exploded mid-runway like a kamikaze, paralyzing the fashion show—under the stunned eyes of Azzedine Alaïa and other VIPs.
