Jérôme Clément-Wilz

Jérôme Clément-Wilz (France) is a writer-director who works mainly on documentary material. His films have been selected for the Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and Toronto festivals, among others, and are included in the collections of the Cinémathèque Française. He was awarded the Grand Prize at DOXA and the Hong Kong Film Festival and a Star from LaSCAM. His work also extends from performance to photography and installation. With the La Tendre Émeute, Epectase and Carmel Miracle groups he has appeared, in particular, at the Zénith in Paris and the TRAFO Museum and has been exhibited at Circulation(s) and at Mécènes du Sud. He is also a founder member of the Ateliers Wonder.

His residency project is devoted to writing his first feature-length fiction film. What if St Paul were alive today, in contemporary France imbued with queerness? What if we could give a voice to the Christian and pagan communities he visited in the 1st century? Jérôme Clément-Wilz’s St Paul explores a Christianity of the margins, shaped by fluidity and the desire for emancipation. Between epistles and social media, Paul interrogates the figures of the saint and the prophet, and positions himself as God’s new influencer.

Portrait © Mathias Fennetaux