Cédric Dupire

Born in 1979, Cédric Dupire's film career began in 2005 with Musafir, a musical film centered around the traditional music of Rajasthan, India. 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, which delves into the avant-garde and radical music of Tokyo's contemporary underground scene, and similarly, in Kings of the Wind and Electric Queens (2014), also co-directed with Kuentz, which won an award at Hot Docs in 2014. While continuing to direct his own projects, Dupire also collaborates on numerous documentary films as a cinematographer (Les enfants du 209 rue Saint-Maur by Ruth Zylberman; Yiddish by Nurith Aviv...), 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).