About the Author
French-Italian documentary filmmaker, I studied art history and cello in Bologna and Berlin, then moved to Brussels, where I graduated in filmmaking at INSAS and in "Speculative Narrative" at erg. Since then I work as a director, author, sound designer and video maker. I also make documentary animation films with the illustrator Charline Collette, which we develop during residencies and workshops with audiences of all ages, as well as children's albums.Since 2015, I am an active member of the ARG (Animation Research Group), an international artistic research collective around animation practices, with which I have exhibited at BOZAR and the erg gallery (Brussels), at the Mundaneum (Mons) and at the Khiasma space (Paris). My first feature-length documentary, Domus de Janas, is currently being broadcast.
Developed Projects
Sophie had to flee her native Egypt forever in 1956, in the context of the Suez Crisis. She never forgot her. Woman-rabbi and Arab immigrant, brilliant mathematician and housewife, she will have been crossed by her time while displaying a candid strength which questions me - between the passivity of the victims and the suspension of the wise. In a first-person film-essay, mixing archive images, family films and animated objects of memory, I trace the story of this particular story - that of my grandmother - against the backdrop of the great history and the political and identity questions that it raises in me today. Between Paris and Cairo, between present and past, the fragmentary portrait of a complex woman emerges...
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