Éponine Momenceau, jury member of 2018 Lab Competition
Filmmaker, cinematographer, photographer
Born in 1985, and a graduate of the Music Conservatory in Harp and the French National Film School La Fémis, Eponine Momenceau has patiently elaborated a poetic and contemplative body of work that mixes cinema and photography. She was the cinematographer of the latest feature film by Jacques Audiard, Dheepan, which won the Palme d’Or at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
Having trained at La Fémis, Éponine Momenceau has slowly but surely put her mastery of the technical aspects of filmmaking toward a burgeoning body of work. Having discovered the liberty of experimental cinema, she has confidently begun directing films, and she has found that it is indeed possible to make a film without a script or actors. She manages to create reality from the most commonplace scenes, eminently aesthetic, filled with pictorial and cinematic references.
Her work regularly includes photography with more and more care and time devoted to video. She takes pieces of reality to a new dimension, and she is able to reveal beauty and hidden meaning.
She received the Prix du Conseil Général des Hauts-de-Seine at the 57th Salon de Montrouge as well as the First Film Prize at the Lucca Film Festival. She has also shown her films at exhibits at the Palais de Tokyo, Triennale de Milan, Lieu Unique in Nantes, Biennale de la Jeune Création Européenne, Scratch Projections of Light Cone, Galerie Mélanie Rio, Point Ephémère, Radialsystem V in Berlin, Nuit Blanche in Paris 2014 and Nuit blanche 2016 with Before Music There is Blood, a collaborative work with the Soundwalk collective. In September 2017, the Cinémathèque Française dedicated an evening to her work in a program called “The Image Inventors”.
Discover the trailer of Dheepan by Jacques Audiard :
https://vimeo.com/163324793