Aude Fourel

Born in Saint-Etienne (France) in 1978, Aude Fourel is a filmmaker.

Aude Fourel works essentially with Super 8 film, confronting it with digital technologies in order to reveal the image’s inherent fragilities and instabilities. She directs, edits and produces her films on the borderline between creative documentary and art film. The main themes in her creations are crossings, walking and filming, anonymous stories and political commitment. Her filmography is made up of short and medium-length performative videos. Aude Fourel teaches film practices and documentary filmmaking at the University of Grenoble-Alpes (France).

The project she is working on at Villa Medici is entitled Récits d’Elissa (Elissa’s Stories) and tells of everyday acts of resistances in Palestine through several characters and a puppet, each of them guardian of a story locked away in bits of archives. Fragments of 16mm film conserved in Rome, abandoned family films; anonymous recordings and kilometres of crossings, these stories have a strong smell of salt (sea and silver) and orange-trees about them. Aude Fourel sets off to Rome, works in the film director Monica Maurer’s archives, looks for reels of films put to one side, and walks alongside these characters, in the present.

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