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Official Selection / AWARDs

  • 2024.Experimental Brasil, Rio de Janeiro Brazil My body suddenly started shivering - Best experimental short | Best sound design | Best editing
  • 2024.Mayavaram International Film Festival, Tamilnadu India Uncertain Body - Best LGBT Short Film
  • 2023.Serbest International Film Festival--> Uncertain Body - Quarter-Finalist
  • 2023.Experimental Film fest New Bern - NC - US--> My body suddenly started shivering - Official selection

FILMOGRAPHY Works

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  • 2022 --> Uncertain body - HD short exp. 22'08
  • 2023 --> My body suddenly started shivering - HD short Exp. 8'08
  • 2024 --> #TimeForInaction - HD short exp. 06'04
  • 2024 --> Farewell Fanggin - HD short exp. 06'04
  • 2024 --> Reconsidering a Tree in a Burning World- HD short exp. 06'49
  • 2024 --> Pour que le sol continue de tomber sur nos corps - HD Medium length exp. 42'00

EXHIBITION Works

Award-winning photography works

  • 2020.The Wall Gallery Venice | Virtual exhibit for NYC Pride.2018 serie , photographies award 2020 march selection
  • 2020. Minneapolis, MN, USA - Praxis Photo Center, for GENEVA Pride.2019 - The Streets Exhibition, picture selected "nos corps ne sont pas à vendre", International Juried Photography Exhibition March 2020

About

Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, I moved from theater—where I worked as an actress and director—to street photography and documentary filmmaking. Sound art continues to be part of my daily practice.
After exploring seriality and movement in photography, I became interested in bringing these ideas into cinema. Two photographic projects found new expressions when I experimented with rhythmic video elements and unconventional musical narratives. Working across different media has opened up unexpected creative possibilities. My films draw on pictorial elements—black and white aesthetics, high contrast, and deliberate saturation—while developing through collaboration with performers. The process remains open-ended, as does my approach to editing, which feels sculptural to me. I think of my works as essays: material that I work with until it finds its own shape, often revealing something I hadn't anticipated.

My work explores how normative society affects our bodies, desires, and intimacy—the power dynamics and forces we internalize. I'm interested in why we might perpetuate our own constraints, searching for ways to understand our shared fragility and the provisional connections that link us. Sound plays an important role in my practice, including collaborative work on experimental sound projects with Svea Jørwig.

I have also promoted the visual identity of artists over 10 years, theatre companies and SMEs, producing films and video clips. I have also been responsible for the multimedia development/webdesign of websites. .

Notice

The photographic work carried out during political events in public space, some images of which are published here, reflects a desire to bear witness to those who support mobilization actions by their presence. If in this documentary process, a person does not wish to appear in these images, I invite them to write to request their removal.
Le travail photographique réalisé lors d'événements politiques dans l'espace public, dont certaines images sont publiées ici, traduit une volonté de témoigner de celles et ceux qui soutiennent de par leur présence des actions de mobilisation. Si dans cette démarche documentaire, qui est également l'expression de ma solidarité, une personne ne souhaite pas apparaître sur ces images, je l'invite à m'écrire pour en demander le retrait.

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