Léo Lefrançois

selected works from 2014 to 2025


























Next diffusion
12.12.24 to 31.01.2025 • Les Jeunesses, by Y. Debeaumarché,
on FR 3 Région Grand Est - France TV - FR


     


Prophèties
produced by Léo Lefrançois

France - 2025
00:10 x46, HD, color
animated tarot cards


Rewriting the tarot deck for prophecy ... current processing

Ghosts from 2092
produced by Léo Lefrançois

France - 2024
circa 16:39, HD, color
2 projections on brick wall & 3 screens, circa 1000x600x800 cm

2024 • Exhibition at KALT - Strasbourg - FR

Once upon a time, men erected multitudes of chimneys, from which great volutes
of opaque gray smoke rose to the heavens. Crushed, suffocated and paralyzed, mankind
and the Earth were annihilated in a single salvo, leaving behind only ruins, reminiscences
and spectres of that sunken time.

Here, in the depths of these abysses, lie a few remnants. As if in a hazy, lonely dream,
walls and nooks and crannies reveal the semblance of lost and spectral existences.
3 ou 4 petits contes de guerre
 written and directed by Léo Lefrançois

France - 2024
17:14 - HD, color, vo FR
Produced by MIRA - Mémoire des Images Réanimées d'Alsace

2024 • Projection at Cinéma Le Cosmos - Strasbourg - FR

Shared memories, events, adventures or nightmares - what is everyday life like in wartime,
when you're a child and still think the tooth fairy under your pillow replaces your tooth with a penny ?

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Les jeunesses
 written and directed by Yvonne Debeaumarché

France - 2024
52:00 & 90:00 - HD, color, vo FR
Produced by France 3 Région Grand Est, Imagissime
& La Vie Bonne Prod.

2024 - 2025 • Diffusion on FR 3
2024 •  Projection at Mediathèque Jean Falala - Reims - FR

An open-hearted dialogue with marginalized youth in the rural Ardennes. At the heart of this intimate story, Yvonne  _ the director _
meets Victor, a 20-year-old farmer, and his community. The film captures their heartfelt exchanges about relationships and sentimental setbacks, while exploring the generational and socio-cultural gap that separates them.
A poignant reflection on the quest for meaning, through the confrontation of diametrically opposed reference points, contexts and life experiences.

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2092
produced by Léo Lefrançois

France - 2024
03:17, HD, color, stereo
projection on  stone wall, circa 400x600 cm

Sound by Chair Claude

2024 • Projection at Madistan Festival - Cadrieu - FR

Once upon a time, men built multitudes of chimneys, from which opaque
and grayish smoke was rising to the heavens. Crushed, suffocated and paralyzed,
men and the Earth were annihilated by a unique and single salvo, leaving behind
only ruins of that sunken time.

Here lie a few remnants in the depths of these abysses.

As if in a hazy and lonely dream, the castle moat, through a breach,
reappear semblances of lost and spectral existences
Marie-Anne Camax-Zoegger
 written and directed by Léo Lefrançois

France - 2023
16:32 - HD, color, vo FR
Produced by Marie-Anne de Cockborne, Emmanuel de Cockborne
& Anaïs Escavi-de Cockborne

2024 • Projection at ART MONTPELLIER - Montpellier - FR
2023 • Projection at MIFAC - Angoulème - FR

Marie-Anne Camax-Zoegger is a French painter
of the early 20th century of the early 20th century.

In addition to her remarkable pictorial work, she left her mark on her time,
through her association Femmes Artistes Modernes created in 1931
in favor of women artists, so that they would be recognized on an equal footing with men.

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The Liquid State
directed by Léo Lefrançois

for Cumbayá

France - 2023
05:11, HD, color, stereo

Music by Cosmic Neman (drummer of Zombie Zombie) & Gilbert Cohen (Versatile Records)
Mastering by Sam IRL
Mixed by I:Cube Wake Dream

The observation of a world of images in which our reflection has become a norm, a mantra;
vanity when you hold us.
Blinded, veiled by the camera of our phones, we perceive our environments or our own bodies
only through our devices for capturing, projecting, broadcasting, ...

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Vj set crashed archives
performed by Léo Lefrançois aka Chair Claude
France - 2020-2023
Gaïaland
a documentary serie by Yvonne Debeaumarché, Tristan Benoit & Hannu  Kontturi

France, Belgium & Finland - 2022
4x 52:00, FHD, color, vo FR
Mediawan, Aito Media, YLE Areena, RTBF & Arte G.E.I.E.

2023 • in competition at Festival TV de Luchon - FR
               Prix Spécial de la Série - Format long
2023 • off competition at FIPADOC - Biarritz - FR

1980s, Paris. A group of young ecologists want to show that another world is possible.
Guided by a mysterious Amerindian shaman, they practice veganism,
set up organic stores and live in teepees in the middle of apartment blocks.
Accused by their families and the press of being manipulated, they set off on a long ecological march across Europe.

After 10 years of wandering, the “Tribe” finally settled in Finland, in extreme conditions, to live
out their utopia of a life in harmony with nature. How far are its followers prepared to go to save “Gaïaland” ?

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