Léo Lefrançois

selected works from 2014 to 2024






















Next show03.12.24 • Les Jeunesses, by Y. Debeaumarché, at  Médiathèque Jean Falala, Reims - FR
31.12.24 • Ghost from 2092, AV installation at Kalt Club, Strasbourg - FR

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



     
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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2092
directed 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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Toil and Slumber
written and directed by Léo Lefrançois

France - 2021
37:00, FHD, color, 5.1, vo FR & vost ENG

2022 • In competition at Festival des à-côtés - Lyons-la-Forêt - FR

Yannick is a natural winemaker in Alsace. Throughout the seasons,
we follow him in his daily work,
between his cellar and his vines. It is the birth of a vineyard for him
and an organic revival for his land. It is a motif of hands, sobriety and simplicity.

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Voyance, Amour et Confinement
 a film by Yvonne Debeaumarché

France - 2021
52:00, FHD, color, vo FR
France 3 Région Grand-Est, Imagissime & La Vie Bonne Prod

Yvonne is a documentary filmmaker, and like most of the population, 
she was confined to her home in Reims from March to May.

Two months to redefine the contours of her life. And ours. 
Every day during the confinement, Yvonne Debeaumarché, a filmmaker living in Reims, 
begins her day by drawing cards. The Belline oracle will guide her throughout this period 
and provide her with an excuse to chat with friends. By videophone, or simply over the phone, 
this divinatory card reading offers her subjects to discuss with her interlocutors. 

To the young girl, a question about social networking, to the journalist in love, 
a long debate on love, and the psychologist, a quest for meaning. 

A form of "self-transmutation", according to Yvonne. 

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Etat de cendres
written and directed by Léo Lefrançois

France - 2020
3x circa 01:00, HD , BW, vo FR
text extract from The Witches of Eastwick , George Miller - 1987

Patriarchal state of affairs, as a list of abuses, violence, submission, governance.
Some proofs.
Semiology of violence in occidental movies.