Filmmaker, editor, and documentarian, Gabrielle Stemmer explores alternative narratives through the interactive fields offered by the Internet. Her literary studies at the Sorbonne and the École Normale Supérieure led her to study the use of different media in the construction of supernatural characters in the theater. In parallel to her editing activity, Gabrielle focuses her personal projects on internet archives, the theme of deceptive images, and the question of the female model. After a year at Yale University, she entered Le Fémis and directed her first short films that mixed fiction and documentary. Her graduation film, Clean With Me (After Dark), winner of the Special Jury Prize in Clermont-Ferrand in 2020, is the first stone of Sweet Home, unveiled as part of a carte blanche at the CENTQUATRE-PARIS and in which the participation of the viewer becomes central. In 2020 she received the Prix Émergence de la Scam.
The director explores one of the most bizarre trends on YouTube: "Clean with Me” vlogs, made exclusively by a community of white women who post livestreams of themselves as they scrub their homes down. Beyond the facade of cleanliness, inspirational hum-drum, and bland muzak, the "good wife” image slips away to reveal a sense of suffocation, existential angst, and deep depression. Us...
The director explores one of the most bizarre trends on YouTube: "Clean with Me” vlogs, made exclusively by a community of white women who post livestreams of themselves as they scrub their homes down. Beyond the facade of cleanliness, inspirational hum-drum, and bland muzak, the "good wife” image slips away to reveal a sense of suffocation, existential angst, and deep depression. Us...