Alexia WALTHER, Maxime Matray
L'élan
Fiction | 16mm | color | 15'24'' | Switzerland / France | 2008
© maxime MATRAY

Even nowadays, these things do happen sometimes: you get up at dawn, you`re accompanied, you walk throughout the woods, you get encouraged, you fear, you jabber, you play, you hum. You`re expected. You don`t have much to lose, but your honor.

Alexia Walther was born in Geneva in 1974, she lives and works in Nice and Paris. She graduated in 1999 from ESAV (École Supérieure d’Art Visuel), Geneva, Switzerland. She directed mixed media installations. Maxime Matray was born in 1973 in Paris. He lives and works in Nice and Paris. He graduated in 1995 from EPIAR (École Pilote Internationale d’Art et de Recherche), Villa Arson, Nice. He’s a mixed media artist and author. They started working together on the short-film TWIST (2006), that won several awards in many festivals. They wrote and directed together the short-film L’ÉLAN (THE RUN-UP).