June Balthazard

Born in 1991, June Balthazard is a French artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Paris. After studying at the Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD) in Geneva and at the Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, she developed an artistic approach combining films, videos, and installations. Her work has been exhibited and screened in institutions such as the Centre Pompidou Metz (France), Luma Arles (France), the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taiwan), or the Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art (China), as well as at international festivals: the Melbourne Film Festival (Australia), the Busan International Short Film Festival (South Korea), Go Short (Netherlands), the Montreal International Documentary Festival (Canada), the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France), or Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland). In recent years, her work has questioned the cohabitation modalities between human beings and the rest of the living world. Through cinematic objects, she confronts the documentary genre with forms that are more distant from reality: prospective narratives, animation, special effects and more.