Artist-directors duo, Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky are based in Paris-Berlin. Together they have created several short and medium-length films that explore specific historical and socio-political situations through the prism of altered states of consciousness — lucid madness, hallucinations, dreams.
Elise Florenty was born in December 1978 in Pessac, France. She earned a degree in Film History and Theory from Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle (2000) and a DNSEP from the École des Beaux Arts de Cergy-Paris (2001). She attended the postgraduate programs at the Beaux Arts de Lyon (2002) and ENSAD AII, Paris (2004).
Marcel Türkowsky was born in January 1978 in East Berlin, Germany. He studied at the Humboldt University in Music History and Ethnography. He obtained a master's degree in Sound Studies from the UDK Academy of Arts (2008).
Together, they combine their theoretical knowledge of film and music to create films that establish a space where reality meets the myths, fables, and utopias associated with a given territory; capturing survivals, betrayals, and metamorphoses of past resistances. Each film is anchored in a particular geography and calls upon several historical, political, and also literary signs. All films are characterized by following a marginal character who, in their solitude, lucidly imagines the world and cosmos, and manages, through indirect means, to "connect" to the collective.
Their films have been shown at the following festivals: MoMA (Doc Fortnight), FIDMarseille, Hors Pistes Centre Pompidou Paris, Cinéma du Réel, DocLisboa, Torino Film Festival, IFF Rotterdam, Valdivia Chile, Kasseler DokFest, November Film Festival London, Berwick Film Festival, Festival dei Popoli - Florence, Gianny Päng Live Festival Bologna, 25 FPS Zagreb, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Transcinema, FIDOCS Santiago, Norient FF, European Media Art - Festival EMAF Osnarbrück, BAFF Belgium, Japan Media Art Festival, etc.
Their films have been shown at the following museums: Crédakino, Ivry-sur-seine ; Frac idf Le Plateau ; Le Jeu de Paume ; Palais de Tokyo ; Le Bal ; Les Églises centre d’art contemporain, Chelles ; La Synagogue de Delme ; La Ferme du Buisson, Noisy-le-sec ; CRAC Alsace, CAPC Bordeaux ; Frac Pays de Loire, Carquefou ; Mamco, Geneva ; Berlinische Gallery Berlin ; NBK, Berlin ; HDKW Berlin ; Kunstverein Potsdam e.V ; Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin ; Iselp, Brussels ; Matadero Madrid ; Stäedtische Galerie Bremen ; Izolyatsia Donetsk ; International Moscow Biennale ; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit ; Platform Seoul ; Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz ; La Triennale di Milano ; CAC Vilnius ; EKKM, Tallinn ; Moviemento Kino, Linz ; CCCB Barcelona ; Festival Sonorites as well as the online platform Vdrome.
They have participated in residencies at Izolyatsia, Donetsk, Ukraine ; Capacete, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil ; Geumcheon, Seoul, South Korea ; Worpswede, Germany ; Cac Passages, Troyes ; Cité des arts, Paris, France; and have conducted research projects in Greece, Japan, Mexico, and the USA.
They received the EMAF 2014 - European Media Art Festival Osnabrück award for The Sun Experiment (Ether Echoes) and the EMAF 2017 award for Conversation with a Cactus, the Best Short Film award Cinéma du Réel 2020 for Back to 2069 and Don't Rush, the Amalgama award, best medium-length non-fiction film, La Cabina 2020 for Back to 2069 and a special mention Transcinema 2021, Compétition Resistancias for Don't Rush.
