Éric Baudelaire
Eric Baudelaire, born in 1973, is an artist and filmmaker based in Paris, France. After training as a political scientist, Baudelaire established himself as a visual artist with a research-based practice incorporating photography, printmaking and video. Since 2010, filmmaking has become central to his work. His feature films A Dramatic Film (2019), Also Known As Jihadi (2017), Letters to Max (2014), The Ugly One (2013) and The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without Images (2011) have circulated widely in film festivals (including Locarno, Toronto, New York, FID Marseille and Rotterdam). When shown within exhibitions, Baudelaire’s films are part of broad installations that include works on paper, performance, publications and public programs. His next feature film, Une fleur dans la bouche, is among the 20 projects competing in the special section The Films After Tomorrow of the Locarno Festival 2020. He received the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2019 and published the monograph Faire avec with Paraguay Press in 2023.
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Also Known As Jihadi
The possible story of a man, Aziz, told through the landscapes he traversed: the clinic where he was born in the Parisian suburb of Vitry, the neighbourhoods he grew up in, his schools, university and workplaces. Then, his departure to Egypt, Turkey and the road to Aleppo where he joined the ranks of the al-Nusra Front in 2012. A journey tracked by a second storyline, made of extracts from judi...
A Dramatic Film
For four years Éric Baudelaire regularly met with students from the film group at Dora Maar middle school in Saint-Denis. Time for them to grow together, time to find the form of a film in which they would be the true subjects: its characters, its authors and its promise.
Letters to Max
« Cher Max, Es-tu là ? Éric » Un film qui commence par une lettre qui n’aurait jamais dû parvenir à Max, ancien ministre des Affaires étrangères d’Abkhazie, pays souverain sur son territoire, mais sans réelle existence, car non reconnu. (résumé ayant droit)
Also Known As Jihadi
The possible story of a man, Aziz, told through the landscapes he traversed: the clinic where he was born in the Parisian suburb of Vitry, the neighbourhoods he grew up in, his schools, university and workplaces. Then, his departure to Egypt, Turkey and the road to Aleppo where he joined the ranks of the al-Nusra Front in 2012. A journey tracked by a second storyline, made of extracts from judi...
A Dramatic Film
For four years Éric Baudelaire regularly met with students from the film group at Dora Maar middle school in Saint-Denis. Time for them to grow together, time to find the form of a film in which they would be the true subjects: its characters, its authors and its promise.
Letters to Max
« Cher Max, Es-tu là ? Éric » Un film qui commence par une lettre qui n’aurait jamais dû parvenir à Max, ancien ministre des Affaires étrangères d’Abkhazie, pays souverain sur son territoire, mais sans réelle existence, car non reconnu. (résumé ayant droit)
