Some time ago, I discovered Truth by Alex Ebert. At first, I listened to it casually, but after reading the lyrics, I became a huge fan of the track. Recently, I stumbled upon this cover by Faada Freddy:
This week at the Off Courts Festival, I had the pleasure of filming a music video for the guest band Retrópico.
This week at the Off Courts Festival, I had the pleasure of filming a music video for the guest band Retrópico.
My feature film script set in England, The Stagemaster, has just made it to the quarterfinals of the Final Draft Big Break 2024 competition, bringing the total number of accolades to five.
My feature film script set in England, The Stagemaster, has just made it to the quarterfinals of the Final Draft Big Break 2024 competition, bringing the total number of accolades to five.
My first attempt at a "Mid-Century" illustration. I recently discovered the name of this graphic style, and now it's all I do:
The method we’re taught in school is bogus.
While you're busy researching and working on the fundamentals to avoid mistakes or rash actions (and not getting a bad grade because "you didn't work hard enough"), the sly ones have already taken action to grab everything up for grabs.
Episode 5 of Panic in Space has been selected for the Open Festival de Marseilles and will be screened on October 5th and 6th at the Pathé Joliette and Pathé Madeleine cinemas:
A.I. didn’t invent anything new!
If you have 7 minutes, I recommend watching this Armenian animated short film from 1983. Starting at 1:30, you’ll see that the psychedelic transformations of the demon Ekh closely resemble the current nightmare-inducing deep dreams of A.I.:
What a pleasure it was to attend the premiere of the documentary Les Sirènes de Dieppe at the Max Linder yesterday morning!
I’m belatedly exploring the works of Giorgio Moroder, aka Giorgio, who seems to have influenced every electronic artist on the planet. Recently, I’ve been listening to this 1972 track on repeat:
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.
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. There's too much commotion. It's too long.
If Sting repeats it three times in his song, it must be important.
My English feature film screenplay, "The Stagemaster", has just advanced to the semi-finals of the Emerging Screenwriters Drama competition!
Another Surprise Culture Night!
I've mentioned before that I sometimes go listen to poetry in a cellar. Well, completely by chance, I stumbled upon the host of those evenings in another cellar, in the midst of a performance.
Meanwhile, quietly, I'm making progress on the post-production of Panic in Space:
I've finally reached the end of the novel I've been writing for... oh boy... fifteen years?
105 pages, a little over forty thousand words. There's one chapter left to revise in the middle, some corrections here and there, but all in all, it should be finished soon.
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. Next step? Get it read. Find a publisher. Write the next one a bit faster.
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. The theater was packed, with the film's interviewees, contributors and a large part of the crew in attendance... truly moving.
Wow! I've made it to the quarterfinals in both the Screencraft Fellowship and Emerging Screenwriters competitions, bringing The Stagemaster's total number of distinctions to FOUR!
By day, Alexandre is an editor and director whom I met when he came to work for ChezFilms.
By night, he is the creator of the YouTube channel Fry3000 (with nearly 5000 subscribers!), where he "dives into all sorts of cinematic oddities."
The feature-length documentary "To Build" that I produced and directed for École des Ponts et Chaussées will be screened at the Opéra Bastille on Monday, April 22nd at 7 p.m.
Meet the engineers behind the structures that have transformed France. How to build in the era of ecological transition?
Culture night was less of a surprise this time since I had made reservations.
When I go see my friends' plays - especially in small venues where you can't hide - I always prepare a line to say after the performance in case I found it awful. ("You made me dream" Françoise Sagan would have said to Jeanne Moreau after a play where she fell asleep.)
Awakened my typewriter for a new adventure. Had to follow through on my threats and add the exclamation point by hand. Totally worth it.
Following the Los Angeles Screenplay Awards, my feature-length screenplay The Stagemaster has just advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2024 ScriptLab Screenplay Contest!