Film “to avenge your race”
“I have the impression that all my films speak of this knot between our suffering and that of others. Kika is crossed by the way in which the intimate is political. I film the impossibility of saying certain things. My first film, Sleep, sleep in the stonestalks about my uncle who died in the street and who was homeless. It is a film about my family’s silence. When I was little, my father was holding a barter where I spent a lot of time observing people who were white wine from seven in the morning. This inexpressible mixture of pure pain and humor marked me. When I read Annie Ernaux and Pierre Bourdieu, I had the impression of seeing the light. Bourdieu allowed me to understand the reproduction of the elites, social shame, the shame of his body. When Annie Ernaux says: ‘I write to avenge my race ‘I think I make films to avenge my race. “
BDSM and gender standards
“To write HallucinationI have carried out several interviews with dominators, including Marianne Chargois, performer and BDSM activist (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, sado-masochism, editor’s note). When I visited her dungeon, I realized that many men came to her house to discharge male domination. I found it very beautiful, this idea that we also find in the film Phantom Thread of Paul Thomas Andersonthat men also suffer from patriarchy, even if men and women do not suffer in the same way. Many men no longer support virilist codes and await this reversal of gender standards. BDSM makes us understand that we do not have to join these roles. In this sense, cinema makes us access to our own desires and can make us understand collectively that we are neither crazy nor alone. “
