Event

< input > with Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel

Wednesday 12 March 2025 at 7 pm

Curated by Julien Bécourt, the input series celebrates the union between the visual and sound arts. From museum installations to underground activism, from Fluxus to noise music, it will invite a visual artist to evoke his or her relationship with the resonance and vibration of sound, and to question the sacred bond that the arts have always forged with music - be it minor or major, popular or learned.

Born in Toulouse in 1988, Jonathan is studying film editing at the Fémis. Caroline was born in Ajaccio in 1990. She studied at Paris VII and Paris VIII, then at the University of Corsica. They made several films separately before meeting: Chiens (2012) produced by GREC for Caroline, Play (2011), Prince, Puissance, Souvenirs (2012) and Notre amour est assez puissant (2014) for Jonathan. They began their artistic collaboration with the short film Tant qu'il nous reste des fusils à pompe (2014), which won the Ours D'or for Best Short Film at the 64th Berlinale. This was followed by two other shorts, Notre héritage (2015) and After School Knife Fight (2017), which won awards at numerous festivals around the world, while Jonathan directed Martin pleure (2017), a machinima built entirely around the GTA video game. Their first feature film Jessica Forever (2018) was selected as a world premiere at TIFF and then at the Berlinale. They went on to make Bébé Colère (2020), Il faut regarder le feu ou brûler dedans (2022), Best Secret Place (2023) and La fille qui explose (2024), which was selected at the 77th Locarno Film Festival and can currently be seen on the Arte platform. Eat the Night, their second feature, will be released in cinemas in summer 2024. With a narrative that blends gay romance, mafia thriller and the structure of a video game specifically designed for the film (Darknoon), they are breaking new ground in cinema. Their latest 3D animated short, Comment ça va? has just been shown at Berlinale 2025, where it received a Special Mention at the European Film Awards.

They also create video installations that reappropriate the warlike aesthetic of gaming to better deconstruct its violence and virilism. Their ultra-contemporary approach to cinema, imbued with dark romanticism and dystopian science fiction, is strongly influenced by virtual worlds and online sexuality, as well as by the Emo and hardcore punk music subcultures. They claim to be influenced by filmmakers as diverse as Alain Resnais, Abel Ferrara and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, as well as The Wire and post-internet artists such as Jon Rafman. Their films are regularly shown in France and abroad, in festivals, museums, galleries, cinemas, on television and online. They live and work between Paris, Corsica and Toulouse. 

Speakers

Julien Bécourt

Caroline Poggi

Jonathan Vinel

Date
Time
19h00
Location
Fondation Pernod Ricard
1 cours Paul Ricard
75008 Paris
Free entrance
Free admission, without reservation