The films of Cédric Dupire and Gaspard Kuentz

Born in 1979, Cédric Dupire is a French filmmaker and director of photography. His early works explore the connection between music and environment, contemplating the magical and revolutionary powers of music through visual pleasure, political projections, and metaphysical adventures. This is the case in We Don’t Care About Music Anyway... (2009), co-directed with Gaspard Kuentz. While continuing to direct his own projects, Dupire also collaborates on numerous documentary films as a cinematographer, which has led him to question his relationship with images and his filmmaking practice. His recent works have done away with the camera, using only visual and sound archives to recreate parallel worlds where memories, illusions, and fiction challenge the concept of reality, as seen in Journal Afghan (2015) and The Real Superstar (2023).

Born in Paris in 1981, Gaspard Kuentz moved to Japan in 2003 to study fiction at the Tokyo Film School. In parallel with his film activities, he became involved in Tokyo's noise music scene, which led him to make a music documentary in 2009, We Don't Care About Music Anyway... with Cédric Dupire. They continued their collaboration with Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens (2014) and For You, Lord, For You (2017). Thanks to his intimate knowledge of Japan and East Asia, he is now developing hybrid documentaries in this region, mixing visual anthropology with experimental approaches to fiction.