Jérôme Clément-Wilz

Jérôme Clément-Wilz (France) is a writer-director who works mainly with documentary material. His films have been selected at festivals in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Toronto… and are included in the collections of the Cinémathèque Française. He has won the Grand Prix at Doxa, the Hong Kong Film Festival and a Étoile from LaSCAM, and his work also extends from performance to photography and installation. With the collectives La Tendre Émeute, Epectase and Carmel Miracle, he has performed at the Zénith de Paris and the Musée TRAFO, and has been exhibited at Circulation(s) and Mécènes du Sud. He is also a founding member of Ateliers Wonder.

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