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I wanted to know what it was like to turn around on people we loved, and to remember our absent parts. This film is the first part of a series of short films in super8 that I start, between the newspaper, travelogue and film-poem, on fragments of my life between 2009 and 2020. I also compose the music, under my stage name Marie Delta.

Mariette Auvray (born in Mâcon, 1986) is a French filmmaker and musician based in Montreuil. She holds a Master’s degree in Cinema from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Toronto (Innis College), as well as a Master’s degree from the University of Strasbourg in documentary filmmaking. She is also a graduate of the ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in Paris. Since 2004, her artistic practice has focused on creating documentary films, experimental super8 film-poems, and music videos. Her films depict the contemporary world from an intersectional feminist perspective. She is also interested in memory, cultural heritage, and specifically, matrimoines. Her works often emerge from a process of documentation and encounters, drawing inspiration from cinema, visual arts, choreography, and music. She views her work as a form of human ecology, collaborating with other artists and exploring art as a therapeutic process. She currently hosts the quarterly radio show « Après la fin » on Station Station radio, which focuses on contemporary creation. Her films have won several awards, including the Les Etoiles de la Scam Award, the Best Short Film Award at the Créteil Women’s Film Festival, the Gautier-Delaye Award, the Audience Award at the Lille International Film Festival, the Best Short Film Award, and the Best Documentary Award at the University of Toronto Film Festival. Her film « Goodbye Jerusalem » received the Brouillon d’un Rêve grant from Scam and the Louis Lumière grant from the Institut Français. She has had residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, Tokyo Wonder Site in Tokyo, and Residencia Sao Joao in Brazil. Her work has been exhibited in various institutions and exhibitions, including Tokyo Arts and Space in Japan, MAMC in Saint-Etienne, Centquatre in Paris, Centre Pompidou (part of the « Mon Oeil » program), and on Arte. Her documentaries have been featured in Courrier International, Pan African Music, LCP, and BBC Arabic. Her films are distributed by Beliane and the Collectif Jeune Cinéma, and her « Goodbye Jerusalem » is available on the Tënk platform. She also participated in a performance titled « Galop » at the Musée de Saint-Etienne alongside the Franco-Gabonese artist Myriam Mihindou (Venice Biennale), who practices transperformance. From 2016 to 2019, Mariette was in charge of the video studio at ENSCI-Les Ateliers, and between 2021 and 2022, she was part of the audiovisual team at Sciences Po as a filmmaker. She now teaches a course in interactive documentary (video integrated in rich media format) at Gustave Eiffel University in Marne-la-Vallée and occasional workshops focused on new audiovisual forms related to the theme of the living (social media, 360°). In addition to her work as a filmmaker, Mariette has also written columns and interviews for various magazines (Vice, ONORIENT). As a former member of the post-punk bands Pussy Patrol, Eyes Behind, and BCBG, she toured in Europe, China, Korea, Australia, the United States, and Brazil with her various groups. She now performs solo under the moniker Marie Delta.