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.
lima ajry - لما أجري
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 & Sleak
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 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 Lefrançoisproduced 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 ?
2092
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 LefrançoisProduced 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 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 Cumbayádirected 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, ...
toil and slumber
written, directed and produced by Léo LefrançoisFrance, 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.
état de cendres
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.
DARE
written and directed by François Carlier, Erdman Doumbé, Jonathan Bricheux & Léo Lefrançoisproduced by AperoHit
Belgium, 2017-2018
4x circa 05:00, FHD, color, vo FR
2019 • projection at Hip Hop belge 2.0 - Brussels - BE
“Dare” follows Absolem, a young artist from Liège. Over the course of four episodes,
we discover his musical and professional entourage : as a member of
Six O'Clock Gang, which brings together rappers and slammers of all generations in Belgium.
Suspended moments, when creation and passion reveal themselves as a possible professional career.
Here doubts, aspirations, determination, perseverance, joy, dreams, desire and of course reality,
sometimes not in the way we hope or project.
illuminatis
for Isi miltondirected by Léo Lefrançois
Belgium, 2018
02:22, FHD, b/w
la fabulause marche
created by Léo LefrançoisFrance, 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 LefrançoisFrance, 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.
la pudeur
directed by Léo LefrançoisFrance, 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 Goukassovadirected by Léo Lefrançois
produced by Alapge Records
France, 2014
04:22, HD, color, stereo