Louis Henderson

Louis Henderson was born in Norwich, UK, in 1983 and is currently living in Paris. In 2007 he graduated from London College of Communication, and in 2013 from Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains. He has shown his work nationally and internationally, including IFFRotterdam International Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Jihlava Documentary Festival, EMAF Osnabrueck, British Film Institute, Centre Pompidou, Museo Reina Sofia, Tate Modern, etc. Henderson’s films can be categorised as documentary-fictions that engage with subjects such as post-colonialism, history, politics and anthropology. His cinema reflects on society’s cultural and material remains and as such his films are essentially archaeological; focusing on the signatures of the archaic in the contemporary. In 2015, he received the Barbara Aronofsky Price for emerging visual artists in the 53rd edition of the Ann Arbor Festival USA. After several short films, he is currently at work on his first feature-length film, based on a re-reading of the Haitian Revolution, its great heroes and the persistence of their heritage in the bodies and minds of the country's youth today. He lives and works in Paris.