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Mariette Auvray is a french filmmaker and musician, born in 1986, based in Paris. She studied cinema at Panthéon-Sorbonne University of Paris, the University of Toronto (Innis College), and is a graduate of the National School of Decorative Arts of Paris since 2011. Since 2007, her practice has focused on making intimate short films in super8 and documentaries featuring people and communities who propose alternative ways of thinking about the contemporary world. She directed « La Femme Côtelette » (2013), which gives voice to an old protestant bourgeois lady recounting her life as a woman in France in the 1950s. The film received several audience awards including the Best French Short Film Award of the Créteil Women’s Film Festival in 2013. In recent years, she has confronted the youth of Jerusalem, a generation in search of meaning in a context of war and political extremism, with her first feature film « Goodbye Jerusalem » (2019) co-directed with Gabriel Laurent, and which received the Etoiles de la Scam Award 2020. She also explored the issues of social construction and feminist claims among the women of her generation in Japan, with the short documentary “The Mirrors of Tokyo” (2018), as well as in Israel and the West Bank with “Palestinians”, a webseries released in 2020 on the Courrier International online. In parallel with her documentaries, Mariette has shot several short films in super8, ranging from the film-poem « A nos parts absent » (2020) to the short portrait « Feux » (2020) and the travel diary « Childhood » (2010). In parallel to her work as a director, Mariette teaches video at ENSCI-Les Ateliers, is a member of Efferalgang online radio station, and has been a member of many post-punk bands (Pussy Patrol, BCBG, Eyes Behind) and toured in Europe, the United States, China and Australia with her different formations.

 

FILMOGRAPHIE

2020 – PALESTINIENNES (3 x 20mn) – Documentary webseries, 
produced by Dryades Films, online since july 2020 on Le Courrier International

2018 – GOODBYE JERUSALEM (60mn) – Documentary
produced by Les Films du Tambour de Soie
co-directed with Gabriel Laurent
Eurodoc session 2015
Supported in development by PACA region
and the program Média from the European Union
Laureate of Louis Lumière Grant 2016,
and of Brouillon d’un rêve de la Scam Grant, Etoiles de la Scam Award 2020

2013 – LA FEMME CÔTELETTE (20 mn)
 – Documentary
Jury Prize – Arthémise Festival, Paris
Audience Award – International Short Film Festival of Lille
Audience Award – Festival Film de Femmes de Créteil
Audience Award – Short Screens, Bruxelles
Audience Award – Festival un poing c’est court, Vaulx-en-Velin
Exhibitions : « L’Envers du décor », Le Centquatre, 2012
Les Sept démons, Bourg en Bresse, 2016
Selections : Corsicadoc, Ajaccio
Sales : Ciné + Channel, 2013

2010 – LE LAC DES BRUMES (30 mn)
 – Documentary
Best Student Film – Traces de vie, Clermont-Ferrand
Special Mention from the jury – Festival St Paul Trois Châteaux
Selections : Festivals Entretodos, Sao Paulo,
Festival Belo Horizonte
Journées Professionnelles d’Alsace, Strasbourg
Mirror Space Gallery, Berlin

2008 – MARIE-CLAIRE ET MARTHE (19 mn) – Documentary
Best Documentary and Best Film
University of Toronto Festival, Canada

 

RESIDENCIES

2019/2020 – Cité Internationale des arts, Paris

2017 – Tokyo Wonder Site, Japon

2016 – Writing residency for « Goodbye Jerusalem », Institut Français

2013 – Residencia Sao Joao, Brazil

 

PRESS

Portrait sur Radio Nova (Emission Néo Géo)