Échelle Humaine

Edition 2023

Festival

3 days of Festival
from 15 Sep to 17 Sep 2023
© Chloé Magdelaine

As part of this Dérives talk, Valentin Noujaïm looks back at the driving forces behind his work, both filmic and visual, which examines the power relations issues in French society through the prism of a strong ideal: revolutionary love or the love of revolution.

Valentin Noujaïm's work focuses on three themes: compressed lives, forgotten lives and deformed lives. He gives life to marginal and strange characters in sometimes fantastical worlds, mixing DV, 16mm and digital formats and sometimes using special effects.

With Madeleine Planeix-Crocker, associate curator at Lafayette Anticipations.
Valentin Noujaïm graduated in 2020 from the Fémis film school in the script department.

He directed a first documentary film, Avant qu'elle oublie Héliopolis, as well as an experimental film, L'étoile bleue, supported by the Doha Film Institute and the AFAC and presented at the Visions du Réel international festival in Nyon (2020) in international competition.

His first short fiction film, Les Filles destinées, was supported by the CNC and is currently in distribution. In 2021.22, he is in residence at Artagon in Marseille and is making a new video and installation entitled the Pacific Club, supported by the Doha Film Institute and the Ile-de-France Region.

In 2022.23, he is selected for the Salon de Montrouge in Paris and the Getting Real Biennial in Los Angeles. He is also in residence at the Ateliers Médicis in Paris, at the Villa Médicis in Rome in June, and "Guest student" at the Städelschule for 3 semesters in video and installation with the Irish artist Gérard Byrne.

Madeleine Planeix-Crocker is Curator of Performance and Live Arts at Lafayette Anticipations. Since 2021, she has held the positions of the « Troubles, alliances et esthétiques » co-Chair and professor of art theory at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Madeleine received her Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University before pursuing a Masters in « Media, Arts and Creation » at HEC Paris and a Master 2 in gender and performance studies at the EHESS. There, she led an arts-based research project with the nonprofit Women Safe, where she continues to facilitate a creative writing and theatre workshop. Madeleine is currently completing her PhD at the EHESS ; her dissertation research examines contemporary methods for devising performance in France.

Her most recent writing can be found in CURA., OnCurating, SwitchOn Paper, and EarthKeepingEarthShaking. She has curated two group shows : Spine at GIANNI MANHATTAN as part of Curated by (Vienna, 2024), as well as Scabs at the Mécènes du Sud (Montpellier, 2023). Madeleine pursues her training in contemporary dance.

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