Of memory, metal and frost
Following the discovery of a box of old photographic negatives, French-American photographer and visual artist Sabine Mirlesse conceived a work of land art that would interact with the extreme climatic conditions prevailing at the summit of the Puy de Dôme. Designed with the help of researchers from the Clermont-Ferrand Global Physics Observatory and created hand in hand with an art foundry from Auvergne, the exhibition ‘Crystalline Thresholds, les portes de givre’ (Crystalline Thresholds, the gates of frost) is a unique creation that links science, family history, the environment and the region. The film tells the story of this exhibition, produced as part of the Mondes Nouveaux (New Worlds) project, initiated by the french Ministry of Culture after the pandemic.
Filmmaking
Charles-Henry Frizon and Caroline Darroquy
Graphics
Élise Desmars-Castillo
The case of Maks Levin - Anatomy of an execution
‘The Maks Levin Affair’ is the story of a six-month investigation conducted by Reporters Without Borders and war photographer Patrick Chauvel into the execution of Ukrainian journalist Maks Levin and his companion Oleksiy Chernyshov by Russian forces in the early weeks of the invasion. As Patrick Chauvel says: ‘This is the message we are sending: just because you are alone in a forest with three soldiers, and you think you are anonymous and you shoot a journalist without witnesses, it doesn't mean we won't find you.’
Client
Reporters Without Borders
Cinematographers
Arnaud Froger & Robin Grassi
Editing
Caroline Darroquy
Graphics
Élise Desmars-Castillo
Well Accompanied
The Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Artistic Craftsmanship is awarded annually to the elite of the French arts and crafts industry. In recent years, it has included a support programme that enables winners to develop innovative projects with peace of mind.
Client
Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
Cinematographers
Caroline Le Hello / Matthieu Gérault
Editing
Simon Roland
Graphics
Élise Desmars-Castillo
La Chronique, the human rights magazine - Amnesty International
La Chronique, Amnesty International France's magazine, offers every months 52 pages of investigations, interviews, reports and more... It is a guaranteed 100% independent monthly publication, which survives solely thanks to its subscribers.
Filmmaking
Christophe Acker
Graphics
Élise Desmars-Castillo
Don't cry, this is our land
‘Sweat and tears’ ! Photographers Edouard Elias and Abdulmonam Eassa travelled on foot and donkeyback into the heart of the Mara Mountains in Sudan to meet the Fur people. Their artisanal, atypical and humanistic work is being shown at the 2022 Bayeux-Calvados Normandy Prize War Correspondents' Award.
Cinematographers
Edouard Elias / Abdulmonam Eassa / Charles-Henry Frizon
Editing
Simon Roland
6 millions of refugees
Citizen engagement has been at the heart of the welcome given to Ukrainian refugees. This mobilisation demonstrates the solidarity of French and European society, beyond preconceptions and xenophobic rhetoric. But what about other exiled populations? Matthieu Tardis, researcher at Ifri - French Institute of International Relations, provides an update.
Cinematography and editing
Charles-Henry Frizon
Graphics
Élise Desmars-Castillo
Yeanzi in Venice
In his studio in Bingeville, Ivory Coast, Saint-Etienne Yeanzi creates works combining paint, fabric, paper and melted plastic. His creations build bridges between African tradition and international current affairs, offering a narrative on the universality of human nature. In 2022, Saint-Etienne Yeanzi exhibited at the Venice Biennale.
Client
Fondations Edmond de Rothschild
Cinematography and editing
La Spire
“Create a community in a constrained environment”. With La Spire, Chloé Moglia invites six aerial acrobats (“suspensives”) and one musician for a wander in the sky 6.5 meters off the ground. Rather than a show or a performance, this is life experienced in and around a unique, ephemeral structure.
CLIENT
Compagnie Rhizome (2021)
CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Christophe Acker / Charles-Henry Frizon
LOGGING
Ingrid Seyman
EDITING
Christophe Acker
GRAPHICS
Élise Desmars-Castillo
Masters of Art – Students6 stories of know-how and transmission
Panel beaters, organ builders, luthiers, stone cutters, costumers, cabinet-makers and furniture restorers — these elite French artisans are the custodians of unique technical know-how, which is only valuable if you can find someone to transmit it to…
CLIENT
Institut National des Métiers d'Art (2021)
CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Caroline le Hello assisted by Éric Lepelletier
LOGGING
Ingrid Seyman
EDITING
Charles-Henry Frizon
GRAPHICS
Élise Desmars-Castillo
La Ronde
Just prior to closing for three years of renovations, the Grand Palais (RMN-GP) invited choreographer Boris Charmatz inside for one last dance. 12 hours of performance — no audience allowed, as per pandemic protocol — on the theme of Arthur Schnitzler’s “La Ronde [Reigen]”.
CLIENT
Réunion des Musées nationaux-Grand Palais (2021)
CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Caroline Le Hello / Charles-Henry Frizon
EDITING
Elouan Joly
GRAPHICS
Élise Desmars-Castillo
Happening Tempête
In January 2021, choreograph Boris Charmatz “closed” the Grand Palais before the museum’s renovations began. Six months later, Charmatz inaugurated the temporary Grand Palais Éphemère with his “happening tempête”: 150 professional and amateur dancers gathered right near the Eiffel Tower for two rage and energy-filled afternoons.
CLIENT
Réunion des Musées nationaux-Grand Palais (2021)
CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Caroline Le Hello / Charles-Henry Frizon
EDITING
Elouan Joly
GRAPHICS
Élise Desmars-Castillo
We all deserve a better future
Ghaith is Syrian, Saïdou Guinean, Valbona hails from Albania, Candy from Venezuela, Cyrus from Liberia. Their journeys to Europe were all difficult. To shape brighter futures, they are each undergoing professional training led by the Red Cross in Madrid, the École Simplon in Paris and Montpellier, and the Joblinge in Frankfurt — associations and NGOs supported by BNP Paris as part of its refugee assistance program.
CLIENT
Fondation BNP Paribas (2020/2021)
CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Christophe Acker / Charles-Henry Frizon / Aurélie Miquel / Olga Kravets
EDITING
Elouan Joly / Simon Roland
GRAPHICS
Élise Desmars-Castillo
The caterpillar strategy
In the middle of the forest, just a few short kilometers from Bordeaux, a team of scientists from the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) has joined forces with high school students to evaluate the consequences of global warming on trees’ natural defense systems. A scientific program supported by the BNP Paris Foundation.
CLIENT
Fondation BNP Paribas (2021)
CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Caroline le Hello / Charles-Henry Frizon
EDITING
Elouan Joly
GRAPHICS
Élise Desmars-Castillo
A Philanthropic move
On the roof of the Théâtre du Châtelet, in a school in Annonay, a co-working space in Sentier, or the corridors of the Hôpital Fondation Adolphe de Rothschild, young dancers from the “Premier Pas” program perform their interpretation of philanthropy. Choreographed by Abou Lagraa and Nawal Lagraa Aït-Benalla for the Fondations Edmond de Rothschild.
CLIENT
Les Fondations Edmond de Rothschild (2021)
CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Christophe Acker, assisted by Stéphane Zajac
EDITING
Christophe Acker
GRAPHICS
Élise Desmars-Castillo
25 million refugees
Key numbers, source and host countries, the mobilization of social and economic actors… this film gives a brief overview of the migration situation, deconstructing stereotypes with actual statistics and concrete examples.
CLIENT
Institut Français des Relations Internationales
CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Caroline le Hello
EDITING
Charles-Henry Frizon
GRAPHICS
Élise Desmars-Castillo
RSF World Press Freedom Index 2021
Every year, Reporters Without Borders publishes its World Press Freedom Index. Pluralism, media freedom, proper legal infrastructure, journalists’ safety…Broadcast globally, the World Press Freedom Index is the NGO's foremost advocacy tool.
CLIENT
Reporters sans frontières (2021)
Documentation
Catherine Stoeblen
EDITING
Elouan Joly
GRAPHICS
Élise Desmars-Castillo
Façon Albert
In Nice, everyone knows Albert Goldberg by his silver mane and flamboyant elegance. The son of a tailor, it was in his father’s atelier that Albert first learned the craft before launching his own brand “Façonnable” in the 1960s. Thus ensued a global success story inspiring the likes of Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. With “Albert Arts”, Albert Goldberg continues to hone his version of what’s chic “façon Albert”.
CLIENT
Albert Arts (2021)
CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Christophe Acker / Charles-Henry Frizon
LOGGING
Ingrid Seyman
EDITING
Simon Roland
GRAPHICS
Élise Desmars-Castillo
Exhibitions from the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents
The history of war journalism, artwork from Syrian artists in Alep, a retrospective on Afghanistan and the history of Sarajevo’s “good neighbors” — year after year, the exhibitions of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents offer special visual insight into past and present conflicts.
CLIENT
Prix Bayeux-Calvados Normandie des correspondants de guerre
CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Caroline le Hello / Mathieu Gerault / Charles-Henry Frizon
EDITING
Elouan Joly / Julien Teruel
GRAPHICS
Élise Desmars-Castillo