Synopsis

"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.”

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Synopsis

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.

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Synopsis

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.

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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
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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 short film written and directed by David Gil

Confession II

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writer Director
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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 photographic storyboard by David Gil

Confession I

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Cowriter and Creative Director
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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.

Out of the Shadow

Mise en Scene
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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
‍200

A model suddenly exploded mid-runway like a kamikaze, paralyzing the fashion show—under the stunned eyes of Azzedine Alaïa and other VIPs.

Awakening of a mith

Writer Director
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Commissioned by FLP
France
2012

After centuries of hibernation, a rare and exotic game bird unfurls her vibrant wings and loads her weapons of seduction to enter a sensual duel with the hunter who has long tracked her scent.

Color of self confidence

Writer Director

Commissioned by LVMH
France
2012

A bubble-bath girl mesmerized by black and white shadows cast by a flame behind her is suddenly compelled to turn around, discovering Sephora’s Flame and transforming into a multicolored Warholian silkscreen. Eagerly sharing her revelation with her neighbors, they join in a playful, self-confident dance.

The eye of ego

Writer Director

CommisSioned by bvba 32
Belgium
‍20

A stylish chick hatched in Antwerp dreams of solving the ancient fashion riddle: which comes first, the brand or the designer? …a moment in… reverses the backstage mirror, shifting the spotlight from a singular visionary to the collective creativity of a multidisciplinary whole.

Twisted

Short Film by David Gil

Coming Soon

Synopsis

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

Short Film by David Gil

Synopsis

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

Short Documentary by David Gil

Synopsis

Experimental

Playhouse

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

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

The Last Supper

Confession II

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

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

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

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

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

A model suddenly exploded mid-runway like a kamikaze, paralyzing the fashion show—under the stunned eyes of Azzedine Alaïa and other VIPs.

Branded

Awakening of a mith

After centuries of hibernation, a rare and exotic game bird unfurls her vibrant wings and loads her weapons of seduction to enter a sensual duel with the hunter who has long tracked her scent.

Color of self confidence

The eye of ego

A stylish chick hatched in Antwerp dreams of solving the ancient fashion riddle: which comes first, the brand or the designer? …a moment in… reverses the backstage mirror, shifting the spotlight from a singular visionary to the collective creativity of a multidisciplinary whole.