Sylvain Trousselle
Director
Sylvain Trousselle works in a wide range of fields, producing visual poems, documentaries, dance videos, web series and live performances.
With a dual aesthetic and human approach, he seeks to capture a little of each person’s being through their movements, their gait, their presence, their expressions, their history and their words. His work is based on a number of themes: movement, bodies, exchange, encounters, memory, traces, the human presence in the world…
Trained as a historian, his main areas of research are the memory of people and places, and the traces left by history that shape landscapes and people. His latest creations include Le sentier des âmes, a documentary produced as part of the Traces et effacement de la Grande guerre project in a Correzian village, and L’engrangeur, a portrait of Régis Coudert, a compulsive hoarder of objects, toys and farming tools.
At the same time, he has been involved in a number of educational projects: he has worked as a teacher for Ecole et cinéma and Collège au cinéma in Livry-Grargan and Bondy, is in charge of the photo/video unit in the youth department of the town of Montfermeil, and has been an artist for the association Ida Y Vuelta for many years, working on projects such as Traces (creation in urban spaces), Résonances (artistic expression workshops in secondary schools, with the production of 6 short films) and Get Up (creation of video self-portraits in partnership with the École de la deuxième chance).
He regularly films live performances. He has produced all the Compagnie du Porte-Voix recordings and teasers.