It has been months since I last wrote a blog post. Almost a year actually. I had planned on being way more active on this blog but the constant flow of work on my new films Desire and Scars We Carry never let up and months quickly passed by. Since I last wrote a post, I managed to complete the post-production of Scars We Carry and we just wrapped up the production of Desire, my upcoming film on Detroit techno pioneer Carl Craig. I am really happy to share that Variety ran a story on Desire this week. We are now moving on to sound editing, sound mixing and color grading. The film will be ready in a couple of months. And then another adventure will start.
This picture with Carl Craig was taken on the last day of our last shoot in Detroit. We ended up in front of the iconic Michigan Central building, that is one of the symbols of Detroit’s renaissance today. In the past two years, we spent a lot of time trying to capture all the facets of Carl’s beloved Detroit that you can hear in his music: the melancholy, the economic and racial struggles, the resilience, the solidarity, the creativity and the joy. I hope you will be to see, feel and hear all this in Desire.
I am happy to share a few pictures from the shoot. The backstage pictures were taken by the talented Mathilda Schaffter, one of my former students at the Ecole Supérieure du Journalisme (ESJ) in Paris.
This past year, I have also had the privilege to teach the remote master program in documentary filmmaking at the ESJ. My students have produced 17 documentary short films last year, an impressive achievement. I am just amazed by their creativity, resilience and perseverance. And my work with students has become a constant source of inspiration to me.