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Quentin Coulon & Ombline Ley

Film / video
May. 
 Jul. 2021

Presentation

Quentin Coulon makes documentaries, videos and sound creations. In 2012 he launched GRÜNT, an internet media and, subsequently, production company. In 2016 Coulon began to document the daily life of Abdoulaye Diaby, a young Malian professional footballer. This resulted in two films: Doni doni de kononi be pan in 2017, selected the following year for the Cannes International Pan African Film Festival, and Diaby, in 2021. Meanwhile, Coulon has continued to work as an audiovisual technician, sound engineer and sound editor.

Ombline Ley is an artist, musician and film-maker. A year after graduating from École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in 2014, she made Cavernicole, which was named Best Film at the Bogoshorts festival in Colombia. In 2018 she co-directed her first feature film, Dans la Terrible Jungle, with Caroline Capelle. This film, on the lives of teenagers attending IME La Pépinière, a clinic for children with special needs, was included in the ACID parallel selection at the Cannes Film Festival. It was followed, in 2020, by B.R.I.N, a short film, again made with Capelle and commissioned by the Centre d’Art Le Bal. Ley has published a photographic book, Fascinus, and, with Duo Kor, worked on a musical project that combines video practice with performance theatre.


Project

Ministère de la Solitude (Ministry of Solitude)

For their first collaborative work in Japan, Quentin Coulon and Ombline Ley wanted to listen to people, give them a voice and instigate situations that would generate the type of encounter that often arises when making a production that is part documentary, part fiction. With this in mind, they met with Japanese youth – whether the youth of the 1960s or more recent times. Ministère de la Solitude is a film project that considers new forms of alienation in modern capitalist society and the responses of those who have withdrawn – voluntarily or otherwise – from it. Multiple voices provide a glimpse into a fantasy world whose borders are wherever you want them to be.

Crédits

Photos :
Portrait : Quentin Coulon & Ombline Ley
DANS LA TERRIBLE JUNGLE_Affiche_2018_C. Morilleau, C. Capelle et O. Ley
Duo Kor_Korloscopie 2016, (O.Ley et T. Rancoeur)
Quentin Coulon_Doni doni de kononi be pan, Gabon,2017
Quentin Coulon_Ceci est une frontiere, Bamako, 2016