Artists from France

Emmanuel Lefrant

Born in 1975, Emmanuel Lefrant studied cinema at the University of La Sorbonne Nouvelle where he started an academic work on abstract films. He then spent several years in Montreal where he founded the kinaesthetic research collective PHYLM with audio artist Philippe Pasquier. Back to Paris in 2004, he works again on performances first with Nominoë -performance collective he founded in 2000- then more recently with Carole Arcega ('Tabula Rasa', 2007) and Stefano Canapa ('Petrolio', 2008), performances in which he composes the sound live. In parallel to that, he helps Nicolas Rey at , an artist-run film lab based near Paris. He also became in 2007 the director of Light Cone.

Nationality:
France
Stéphane Marti

Filmmaker and teacher, Stéphane Marti has been researching experimental cinema as an art form liberated of aesthetic codes and the economics of big budget cinema. His work is primarily focused on the themes of the sacred and the human body. An avid supporter of the Super-8 format, he has been fighting for its merits as a tool. He has used this format film after film and has been sharing his experiences with new filmmakers during his workshops at the Sorbonne’s College of the Arts (Paris I).

Nationality:
France
Lionel Soukaz

Lionel Soukaz (born in Paris in 1953) is a French filmmaker.

Biography He begins to film in Super8 in 1973, shooting underground films on homosexuality, still taboo in France, pornography or social criticism. His films often take the form of diary films.
Nationality:
France