AMÉLIE RAVALEC


Your favorite virtue(s) ::
Passion, determination and integrity

Your favorite occupation ::
Film directing

Your idea of happiness ::
Achieving everything I set out to

Your idea of misery ::
Not creating

Where would you like to live ::
Tokyo

Your favorite prose authors ::
Hubert Selby Jr., Irvine Welsh, Jay McInerney, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Michel Houellebecq, Rupert Thomson, Craig Clevenger, Donna Tartt, Virginie Despentes, Frederick Exley, Guillermo Arriaga, Haruki Murakami, Iain Levison, Constance Debré, John Burnside, Timothy Findley

Your favorite poets ::
Charles Baudelaire

Your favorite heroes in fiction ::
Jean des Esseintes

Your favorite painters and visual artists ::
Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Francisco Goya, William Blake, Henry Fuseli, Zdzislaw Beksinski, Alex Gray, Laurie Lipton, Val Denham, Tadanori Yokoo, Andreas Cellarius, Fritz Kahn,
Brodsky & Utkin, Elzo Durt, Claudio Romo, Luigi Serafini, Leonora Carrington

Your favorite composers ::
Coil, Cabaret Voltaire, SPK, Throbbing Gristle, Clint Mansell, Matt Dunkley, Ancient Methods,
Regis, Adam X, Kareem, Click Click, Clock DVA, Dalek, DAF, In Slaughter Natives, Arcana, In
The Nursery, The Secession, Lustmord, Angelo Badalamenti, Arpanet, Colin Potter, Haus Arafna

Your favorite photographers ::
Shuji Terayama, Eikoh Hosoe, Daido Moriyama, Miron Zownir, Cagdas Erdogan, Cristina Garcia
Rodero, Andreas Bitesnich, Joel Peter Witkins, Laurent Benaïm, Antoine D’Agata, Araki Noyuboshi, Harry Gruyaert, Andreas Gursky, Edward Burtynsky, William Mortensen

Your favorite non-fiction authors ::
André Breton, George Bataille, Carl Jung, Oliver Sacks, Friedrich Nietzsche, Antonin Artaud, Jean Dubuffet, Adam Parfrey, Jean-François Bizot, Sigmund Freud, Irvin D. Yalom, Jean Genet, Siri Hustvedt, Michio Kaku, Naomi Klein

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
Pop music, small talk, mediocrity

The change you most anticipate ::
Artificial intelligence

How I would like to die ::
Fulfilled

Your favorite motto ::
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam / I shall either find a way or make one

16 février 2020 - 20:32

Amélie Ravalec is a London-based film director, producer, photographer, video editor and colourist.
She directed Art & Mind (2019), Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban Decay (2015) and 
Paris/Berlin: 20 Years Of Underground Techno (2012).

⊕ Amélie Ravalec