Véronique Aubouy

Véronique Aubouy is a French filmmaker and artist born in 1961. Her singular body of work is strongly influenced by literature and music, combining documentary and fiction films, performances, video installations, photography and writing. Since 1993, she has been filming readings of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time by people from all walks of life, in all situations. Shown as an installation (Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris in 2012; Festival International de La Rochelle in 2008), Proust Read has now lasted over 150 hours, with several hundred readers. With Mathieu Riboulet, she wrote a book inspired by this project, À la lecture, published in 2014 by Grasset. Véronique Aubouy has also directed several short fiction films, including The Silence of Summer, shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993 in the Un certain regard section, and documentary films, such as I am not an angry man, portrait d'Edward Bond (2002), Bernadette Lafont, une sacrée bonne femme (2013), My Name Is Annemarie Schwarzenbach (2014) and Albertine gone, selected at the FID Marseille in 2018.