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Within a few years, through the practice of bodybuilding, Yukio Mishima, a Japanese writer, metamorphosed from a creator of words into a "creature of words." Charles Gaines, an American writer and journalist, compares the bodybuilder to a sculptor of his own flesh. How does work, sport, cultural and sexual norms define one's body and identity? How do we determine our own image, and through which dilemmas do we go about to achieve this? "Double You Double You" reenacts the stages of a bodybuilding competition. Jennifer Teuwen* is the only athlete to compete and the camera is her only audience. The film stages the Scopic Drive - watching being watched endlessly - and offers a visual and auditory, sensuous and sensorial exploration of Jennifer's body. * Jennifer is a Belgian professional bodybuilder, champion in the category of "Women's Physics," and the most muscular woman according to the IFBB (International Federation of Bodybuilding).

Laure Cottin Stefanelli is a french visual artist and a filmmaker based in Brussels and Paris. Through her films, photographs and installations, she pursues a research around stories focused on characters inhabited by paradoxical tensions – life, death and erotic impulses – those resulting from the separation between mind and body. Her work had been exhibited and screened at venues including États Généraux du Film Documentaire (Lussas, FR) ; KANAL – Centre Pompidou (Brussels, BE) ; Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival (BR) ; Kasseler Dok Festival (Kassel, DE) ; Moscow Biennal (RU) ; Art Brussels (BE) ; FIDMarseille (FR) among others. Her first medium-length film « No blood in my body » received the short film prize at Écrans Documentaires d’Arceuil (FR). She has completed several residencies including the Hoger Instituut Voor Schone Kunsten, HISK (BE). Laure Cottin Stefanelli studied literature and cinema at the University of Paris III and graduated in Photo-Video from École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. Since 2018, she teaches at École d’Art de La Cambre in Brussels, Belgium.