Festival « Bruits de langues » (Université de Poitiers). Animation de la table ronde « “Identité nationale” et droit des étrangers » (1h30) en compagnie de Théo Martineaud. Invités : Nicolas Ferran, réalisateur de Les Amoureux au ban public (2011), et Valérie Osouf, réalisatrice de L’Identité nationale (2012).

Cinémathèque Française : conf sur l’économie des cinémas d’Afrique

Maison du Geste et de l’Image : avec l’écrivain Arno Bertina, intervention sur l’éthique du filmage de personnes minorisées

Université Paris 7 et Paris 8 : colloque des réfugiés

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The school of Mutants — Dialogue from the between worlds

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The school of Mutants — EN RÉSIDENCE À LA BECQUE

La Becque, Artist residency — Switzerland

September — November 2024

La Becque

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The school of Mutants— You Have Not Yet Been Defeated

GI CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Glasgow exhibition

June 7 – August 31, 2024

CCA of Glasgow

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KINSHASA, CAPITAL OF THE WHOLE WORD
(Video Installation)

• Shooting in October 2023, with Congolese artist Bryan Batupe
  and rapper Cromix Onana Djenda Christo
• Production : Jil Winter, Dreieck GmbH 
• Languages : French, Lingala, Tshiluba 

In Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo and home to 18 million people, certain neighbourhoods carry the world: People’s China, Tokyo, London, Brussels (Matonge) and Paris (Bandal). Two gangs clash: Arabs and Americans. As for the most feared police station, it’s nicknamed Sobibor. But there are only Congolese here.

Bryan Batupe Portfolio

Institut du Tout-Monde

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North

2023

Experimental Short Film

A sequence shot by plane from the African coast to the shores of Europe. When you have the privilege of holding a Western passport, it takes 9min47s. 

But for the Sudanese writer in exile Youssif Halliem Kiddo, whom we listen to during this flight, the crossing of the Mediterranean was quite different…

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Exhibitions with the artist collective “The school of Mutants”

Since 2021, Valérie Osouf joined the artist collective L’École des Mutants, founded in 2018 by Hamedine Kane and Stéphane Verlet-Bottero

• CIAP Vassivière / Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam / Biennale Berlin / Biennale Kaunas
• à venir : Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery Leeds / Théâtre National de Kaunas / Biennale de Dakar

14ème biennale de Kauna

14th Kaunas Biennial (Lithuania) from 25 August to 29 October 2023.

Curated by Alicia Knock and Inga Lace

I AM my own sun

a new vision of the world

https://arterritory.com/en/visual_arts/reviews/26852-old_post-office_new_friendships

https://bienale.lt/2023/en/

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12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

from 11 June to 18 September 2022.

Curated by, Kader Attia

The School of Mutants (Boris Raux, Hamedine Kane, Lou Mo, Stéphane Verlet Bottéro, Valérie Osouf)

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Akademie Der Künste, Pariser Platz

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Stasi Museum

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Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam

– avril-Mai 2022

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CIAP Vassivière

from 19 september 2021 to 30 january 2022

Curated by Denetem Touam Bona

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Public statements

Cultures d’avenir 2022-2023

Maison de la Poésie

Cerisy

Cité des Arts

Afrique : Utopies performatives

Entrelacs

FICTION TERRITORIALE

Tigritudes
A chronogical
panafrican film cycle

Through 126 films, 40 countries and 66 years of cinema history, Tigritudes* 1956-2021 draws a subjective and chronological pan-African anthology. Conceived by directors Dyana Gaye and Valérie Osouf, in collaboration with the Forum des images, this cycle explores the issues and forms of a cinematography that is still largely unknown. The Tigritudes cycle invites artists and intellectuals from different backgrounds to discuss the films, bringing together different perspectives, visions and generations so that the stories of cinema can be heard.

Around Tigritudes :

https://www.citedesartsparis.net/en/hlm-tigritudes-pan-african-film-cycle

https://www.cnap.fr/jeune-creation-panafricaine-quand-cinema-et-arts-visuels-font-champ-commun

https://telquel.ma/2023/10/06/le-consentement-en-salles-le-cinema-africain-a-lhonneur-a-rabat-les-emotion-sexposent-a-casablanca-les-sorties-de-la-semaine_1834517

In 2022, the cycle began its pan-African tour in Burkina Faso and Senegal, before continuing in 2023 in Morocco, South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria.

In spring 2024, it will be presented in its entirety in London.

Tigritudes Press Kit

Website Tigritudes

Interview with Samir Ardjoum

After a stormy schooling, Valérie Osouf moved to Senegal for 9 years, where she made her debut film in 1996, No Comment, the country one never reaches, a 16mm celluloid documentary about people deported from France because of the Pasqua/Debré immigration laws.  

In Dakar, after a spell at Philosophy college interrupted by a year-long strike, she undertook a master’s degree in journalism on film distribution in West Africa, alongside a drama course at the National Conservatoire of Senegal. To support her livelihood, she worked in the printed press and on the radio (Le Monde, RFI, Sud FM), mainly on the culture desks.  

Back in Paris, Valérie developed a number of projects dealing with the contemporary echoes of colonial history, and took a scriptwriting course at La Fémis under the guidance of Jacques Akchoti. 

In 2008, she completed the co-direction of a historical documentary, Cameroon: Autopsy of an Independence, which was broadcast on France 5, TSR and RTBF (Program33). The film won the Audience Award at the Pessac International History Film Festival and was shown at around a hundred screenings followed by political debates in France, Cameroon and Germany.  

In spring 2012, just before the French presidential election, she completed her first feature-length documentary, National Identity (Granit Films). The film, a critical analysis of the contradictions of republican universalism in the light of the double penalty, was selected at around fifteen festivals abroad and broadcast as an exclusive stream on Télérama’s website, where it attracted a high audience for an object of this nature.  

In January 2014, Valérie completed a short documentary on collective history and intimate memory in the face of Alzheimer’s disease and the Algerian war, Afterwards. This short film was shown at a dozen festivals and published on the website of the contemporary art magazine Afrikadaa, along with a text on the complexity of creating an anti-colonial work using archives produced by the colonial power.  

These last two films are produced by Granit films, the production structure she co-founded with filmmakers Alain Gomis (L’Afrance, Tey, Félicité…) and Newton Aduaka (Rage, Ezra…). 

In 2016 and 2017, Valérie Osouf directed a portrait of the filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako on his territories of life and cinema, from Mali to China via Russia and Mauritania. The 52-minute version was broadcast on ARTE and the feature, Sissako, Beyond Territories, circulated in international festivals (FESPACO, NYAFF, BIFF, …), before its US release with Cohen Media in conjunction with that of Sissako’s latest film, Black Yea, planned in 2024 (Petit Dragon production). 

Valérie is currently developing a feature-length international documentary on human mobility, After Babel, inspired by Edouard Glissant’s novel Sartorius, to be shot in 5 countries (EAU, Russia, Rwanda, China, Canada) alongside novelist Patrick Chamoiseau, produced by filmmaker Eyal Sivan.  

At the same time, she has taught documentary cinema at the Beijing Film Academy, works at the Cinéfabrique, was a member of the CNC / Institut Français’s Aide aux Cinémas du Monde committee for 8 years, and co-curated with director Dyana Gaye a cycle of 126 pan-African and Afro-diasporic films: Tigritudes, presented at the Forum des Images in 2022 as part of the Africa2020 Cultural Season, before touring to Dakar, Saint-Louis, Bobo-Dioulasso, Marrakech and soon Lusaka, Tangiers, Johannesburg, Soweto, Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, Lagos, Nairobi and London (BFI, spring 2024).  

Since 2021, Valérie has joined the artists’ collective School of Mutants, co-founded by Hamedine Kane and Stéphane Verlet-Bottero, with whom she has exhibited at the CIAP in Vassivière, the Het Nieuwe Museum in Rotterdam, the Berlin Biennial of Contemporary Art (curated by Kader Attia), the Kaunas Biennial of Contemporary Art (curated by Alicia Knock and Inga Lace), and soon at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery in Leeds (acquisition: FRAC Bretagne).

In November 2024, she will be shooting a nocturnal urban motorbike film in Kigali, produced by Les films du Djabadjah (Burkina Faso), Karekezi Film Production (Rwanda) and Gaijin (France).