#journal

It doesn't look like much, but it's been a battle for a long time: I merged my personal and professional identities.

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This is a question I'm asking out loud. Often, I'm in a hurry and I'm not sure the few words I throw down here are of any interest.

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I still go often to the SACD Writers' House . To write, to work, for meetings, for screenings. (Authors can rent offices there for free.) The Writers' House, like the SACD offices for that matter, are places where you feel welcome.

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And yet I meditated this morning. It's a quieter day—well, not quieter, lots of things to do, but not too much work. But there it is: bad mood. Maybe the flight back. Maybe the food. Nerves unwinding.

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Woke up in the middle of the night with this very clear recipe idea in my head: Splinter Rice Recipe (20 minutes, easy level) Mix a bowl of rice with a large quantity of splinters that will flavor the dish but that you absolutely, absolutely must not s...

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My mom lives in Morocco, so it's not easy to avoid flying. But here I am at the airport for work. And honestly, I could have organized things differently, but everything happened so fast. The success of an offer I put together kind of accelerated my life.

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When people used to ask me "what do you do?", I'd always say: "I make films." I never dared say "I'm a filmmaker" because that would've implied I made a living from it, which has never quite been the case.

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Something my son said yesterday while we were out walking: "Nobody wants problems. But some people have problems." What could I do but agree? It reminded me a bit of Chevalier and Laspalès' "some tried, they had problems" sketch.

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This morning's rain made me realize that some seemingly superficial stress can run much deeper than expected.

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Three people recognized me on the street in Paris because they follow me on Instagram . One the night before last, and two this afternoon. All very kind, each time. So what do I do, quit everything? 😅

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Personally, I've reached 12K followers on Instagram . I remember a time when I wanted to create discussion groups with friends: virtual salons where I could find conversation and company 24/7. It never worked out.

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Hit ten thousand followers on Instagram . Does that officially make me an influencer? The best part: the messages and comments. It's helped me find a whole bunch of people who are interested in the same things I am.

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I share the contents of my "Today" note that I read every morning as a way of communicating with myself.

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My film Construire (The Builders) made for the École des Ponts was screened at SETEC last night, followed by a discussion and a cocktail reception. It was a wonderful evening.

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Thanks to Guillaume Cloux for these photos from the Migrul shoot.

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ChezFilms is moving into Télé Bocal's premises in Belleville! Really happy with this new place. Especially since I've also changed my pied-à-terre in Paris and I'm not sleeping far from here.

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So today, to sum it up: The flotilla bringing food and water to those starving in Gaza has been stopped . Trump warns his military generals that they'll now need to treat the internal enemy (Democrats, basically) like an external enemy .

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I had stopped drinking. It had decreased naturally, then when I became aware of the hereditary nature of the phenomenon and the place it held in my social life—groups are built on addictions, I realized—I almost completely stopped.

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That's what I tell myself when watching the latest videos I've posted. (I post one video a day on social media.) I'm getting on my own nerves. That's a good sign: when I can't stand what I'm doing anymore, it means I'm about to level up.

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A year ago, I bought an SSD hard drive to show my movies anywhere. But it didn't come with a sturdy case. So I bought this card holder (which cost an arm and a leg) at the stationery store.

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When I walk on the beach holding something in my hand, there's always a crazy (but happy) dog who runs toward me and asks me with his eyes: Hey, what's that? Is it a ball? Is it a treat? Is it a rock? Is it for me? Never mind gotta go bye!

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In my New Year's resolutions, becoming a TikTok influencer was nowhere on the list.

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In 2022, I filmed a 10-minute improvisation video every day and posted it on YouTube. In 2025, I’m starting again!

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Episode 5 of our web series Panic in Space won 2nd place in the Audience Award at the Scientific Short Film Festival of Riom!

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Since the start of fall, I’ve been trying something new:Every Monday evening, along with some improv friends, we invite anyone interested to join us in the basement of Barlone for an improv workshop.

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A.I. didn’t invent anything new!If you have 7 minutes, I recommend watching this Armenian animated short film from 1983.

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What a pleasure it was to attend the premiere of the documentary Les Sirènes de Dieppe at the Max Linder yesterday morning!

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I registered after the deadline, so I couldn't schedule my meetings as well as I would have liked. Despite that, I caught up with friends, met some very nice people, attended some truly enlightening conferences, and had a few drinks—it's been a while.

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If you had asked me the day before yesterday, I would have told you I'm not really into concerts.The music is too loud. It's too long.

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I've reached the end of the novel I've been writing for... oh wow... fifteen years?105 pages, a little over forty thousand words.

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A premiere is always nerve-wracking for a director—especially at the Opéra Bastille—but this event organized by École des Ponts went extremely well.

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I don't go there often, but every time I do, I emerge transformed.I never read the information: the author, the artistic approach, the family traumas that led them to make ceramics on cows, I couldn't care less. I disconnect my brain.

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It might sound like a New Year's resolution, but it's not at all. It's the culmination of a rebellion I've been brewing for a while.Last year, quietly and without fanfare, I (almost) abandoned Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and the like.

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During the "Nuit des Ponts" organized for the 25th anniversary of the Fondation des Ponts, 7 projects were pitched for an exceptional fundraising event at the Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne.

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I don't choose what I write.One morning, I realize that my comedy-drama screenplay isn't progressing. The new scenes are dragging, predictable. Even the corrections I make here and there don't seem to be heading in the right direction. It's a mess.

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Before, I used to joke that only my mom read this blog.Recently, I got proof that not even she does.So when I promote an artist here, it's not like it's going to make a big difference or attract a crowd. But hey, it's a kind of journal.

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Of course, you've been listening to this on repeat for years, while I, foolishly, have just been listening to the original .

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You probably don't know this, but for over a year (or a little less, I haven't done the math), I've been writing a journal.Every morning and often several times during the day, I throw words onto the page with no literary pretensions.

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Swamped before the September screening of Version 1 of the film for the Ponts et Chaussées. But between editing sequences, I stumbled upon this track – yes, I know you're already familiar with it, you always know everything.

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Two pillars of Buddhism recently explored through the wonderful book "Seeing that Frees" by the late Rob Burbea, listening to the lectures of James Low that I discovered recently, and tirelessly through the recordings of Alan Watts, who never ceases to...

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Two videos watched several years apart, yet both left a similar lasting impression on me.The first one, "Journey to the Andromeda Galaxy," made me truly grasp the vastness of the universe. As an engineer, I already knew it was immense...

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We often forget the people who make our lives easier.We dwell too long on those who cause us problems.

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When I find the time, I'll write a recap article about my approach to productivity and how far I've come in this area.

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I've decided not to renew my subscription to the New York Times to not get stuck in my reading habits and discover new avenues.

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Did you notice how the music from Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey makes everything seem strange? No? Well, I have:

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For 48 hours, whenever I felt like doing something unnecessary, I didn't. A Stoic experiment in observing how the brain reacts under pressure.

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My song of the moment. I like it because it has no real chorus, the lyrics are nostalgic and it ends in a climax. It's not recent - 2007 - but I discovered it recently when it came after This is the life which I have always loved.

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I type faster when I focus on accuracy instead of speed. How many areas of life suffer because we try to go too fast?

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A quick word on how I make my websites because my method is: Extremely slow, Very tedious, Not secure at all, Unable to share/scale, A huge waste of time in my life. If you want to do the same thing, here's how.

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Distance walked this morning: 8.9km Number of children dropped off at daycare: 1 Desire to work: 0 Diary entries: 1231 words (7287 characters) Money spent on coffee and drinks: €11.

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Not so much resolutions as general principles that I've discovered and explored in the past years:

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You can imagine that a pagan like me is not particularly concerned with the birth of Jesus Christ. As for New Year's Eve on the 31st, I'm too much of a snob to want to celebrate at the same time as everyone else. Yet, I really like the holidays.

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