memories

created by Léo Lefrançois

France, 2025
av installation, circa 10:00, HD, color
projection on balloon ceiling, circa 600x400 cm

2025 • KROM at KALT - Strasbourg - FR


Memories searches the heavens, revealing outlines at the expense
of background and substance, where shadows become light.
Fragments of an archaeology of the image.

for Smaïn Kermiche
directed by Léo Lefrançois
produced by Léo Lefrançois, Smaïn Kermiche & Essaâda Music

France, 2025
05:28, HD, color, stereo


Like the refrain of a heart heavy with nostalgia for time gone by,
Lima Ajry resonates to an inner voice, a melancholic lament
that soothes us, inhabits us and teaches us about memory.

densité

for Zombie Zombie
directed by Léo Lefrançois
produced by Léo Lefrançois & Born Bad Records

France, 2025
03:54, HD, color, stereo


What seems light and volatile can be infinitely deep ; and what seems
powerful and expansive can be contained in a breath.
The eternal dance of water and wind, like the sigh between
two hearts, carries with it the same gravity of the deep,
and all at once dissolve into a brief murmur.

ghosts from 2092

created by Léo Lefrançois

France, 2024
av installation, circa 16:00, HD, color
2 projections on brick wall & 3 TV screens, circa 1000x600x800 cm

2024 • KROM 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
produced by MIRA (Mémoire des Images Réanimées d'Alsace) 

France, 2024
17:14, HD, color, vo FR

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 ?

created by Léo Lefrançois

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

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
produced by Marie-Anne de Cockborne, 
Emmanuel de Cockborne & Anaïs Escavi-de Cockborne

France, 2023
16:32, HD, color, vo FR

2024 • projection in MIFAC’s selection at Art Montpellier - FR
2023 • projection at MIFAC - Angoulème - FR
2023 • projection at Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art - Paris - FR


Marie-Anne Camax-Zoegger is a French painter 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.

the liquid state

for Cumbayá
directed by Léo Lefrançois
produced by Léo Lefrançois & Wake Dream Records

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


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, ...

written, directed and produced 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.

directed by Léo Lefrançois

France, 2020
3x circa 01:00, HD, b/w, 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.

almadraba

for Phoenician Drive
directed by Léo Lefrançois
produced by Exag Records

Belgium, 2018 
03:51, HD, b/w, stereo

2019 • in competition at VKRS #1 Festival - Brussels - BE


Like a ballet without restraint, without breath, without pause,
the Phoenicians enslaved by incessant waves and repeated crashes,
begin the almadraba, prolonging a meticulous and powerful stalking.

On the surface of the bark, we glimpse a nervous energy
cracks and vibrations, raised by toil.

Subdued and stupefied by chaos, they sometimes bend under too heavy.
Yet, elbow to elbow, they cradle us lull with their predatory song,
and catch us up, call us back, reclaim us, relentlessly corner us.

And, spied on by the gull, it's as if we're being held in their net.

for Isi milton
directed by Léo Lefrançois

Belgium, 2018
02:22, FHD, b/w

created by Léo Lefrançois

France, 2016
av installation, 10:50 loop, HD, b/w
500x400x600 cm

2025 • KROM at KALT - Strasbourg - FR


Like a hypnotic procession, the projected bodies create a play of scales.
The silhouettes shrink or enlarge to such an extent
that they sometimes become distorted.
At times, only luminous trails remain, abstract and volatile, like fireflies.

hairvomit

created by Léo Lefrançois

France, 2016
av installation, 13:00 loop, HD, b/w
200x600x180 cm

2017 • Merci Beaucoup #1 at Le 26 - Strasbourg - FR


Dressed in white jumpsuits, two men face each other,
and without warning, bald as fallen Samsons,
they vomit a dark, writhing mass.

directed by Léo Lefrançois

France, 2016
01:26, HD, b/w, stereo

2018 • projection at Festival des à-côtés - Lyons-la-Forêt - FR


The veil reveals the idea of the gold it conceals, the gold of naked flesh.
It confirms what it confines ! It totemizes forbidden beauty.
This is the opposite of the officially stated goal.

“Le voile” de Patrick Grainville, in Nouvelles Mythologies de Jérôme Garcin, 2007

a sit with no view

for Tamara Goukassova
directed by Léo Lefrançois
produced by Alapge Records

France, 2014 
04:22, HD, color, stereo