now&soon
Cinema Nova, BE ~ Rewire, NL ~ Musée des Abattoirs, FR ~ Filmoteca de Catalunya, ES

elsa.bres@hotmail.com
portfolio and links upon request
resume/CV

SOLO SHOWS

LA LOGE, BRUSSELS
‘Connivéncia’,
curated by Wim Waelput,
in partnership with Fondation Pernod Ricard and support from CNAP,
2023, Brussels, Belgium

CHÂTEAU D’ASSAS
‘every peak is a crater - tout sommet est un cratère’,
2023, Le Vigan, France

STATE OF CONCEPT ATHENS
‘Notes for les Sanglières‘, curated by Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou,
2022, Athens, Greece

TRANSMEDIALE
“remote.response.request II”, duo show with Maud Craigi,
curated by Ben Evans James,
2021, Silent Green, Berlin, Germany

FILMOGRAPHY

LES SANGLIÈRES / SHE BOARS (2025, 68’)
produced by Elinka films (Elsa Brès and Gaëlle Boucand)

NOTES FOR LES SANGLIÈRES (2021, 17’)
produced by Elsa Brès

SWEAT (2020, 30’)
produced by Parkadia and Elsa Brès

LOVE CANAL (2017, 18’)
produced by Le Fresnoy studio national

STELLA 50.4N15.E (2016, 15’)
produced by Le Fresnoy studio national

COLLECTIONS

Fonds National d’Art Contemporain CNAP

Musée des Abattoirs - FRAC Occitanie

GROUP SHOWS & SCREENINGS
(selection)

to come

MIFD Barcelona film festival
SHE BOARS (Les Sanglières), screening,
Filmoteca de Catalunya,
may, 2026

MEZZANINE SUD, Musée des Abattoirs, FR
LIVINGS UNDERGROUND installation,
duo show w/ Damien Fragnon.
april-november 2026

Cinéma Nova, Bruxelles
SHE BOARS (Les Sanglières), screening,
february 12, 2026

2025

SLQS, London, UK
group show Interspecies Entanglements,
curated by Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp,
december, 2025

EHESS, Paris
SHE BOARS (Les Sanglières), screening&discussion
seminar “filmer le champ social”, invited by Monique Peyrière, december, 2025

FLUX FACTORY, New York, USA
Something Fierce, queer ecology festival,
november, 2025

CARRÉ D’ART Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, Fr
SHE BOARS (Les Sanglières), screening,
november 28, 2025

IFFI Goa (International Film Festival of India)
SHE BOARS (Les Sanglières), experimental selection,
2025

Spore Initiative Berlin
SHE BOARS (Les Sanglières), “The Land is wispering : imagine otherwise!” a program curated by Silvia das Fadas and Nafis Fathollahzadeh, 2025

INDIELISBOA, Lisbon, PT
international premiere
SHE BOARS (Les Sanglières), feature-film international competition,

CINEMA DU RÉEL, Paris, FR
SHE BOARS (Les Sanglières), international competition
world premiere

Recontres des Belvédères, Cerbère, Fr
SHE BOARS (Les Sanglières), screening,
+ pannel discussion “producing films otherwise”

DMZ DOCS, South Korea
SHE BOARS (Les Sanglières), feature-film international frontier

FONDATION PERNOD RICARD, FR69’, 2025
SHE BOARS (Les Sanglières), screening
+ discussion with Antoinette Jattiot

VHS festival, le 6B, France
SHE BOARS (Les Sanglières), screening

RADIUS CCA, Delft, Netherlands
Beyond Political Limits 1 : A PARLIAMENT OF OWLS (...)
group show, curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk

THE BALCONY, The Hague, Netherlands
Extractive Imagination(s) : Pied-à-terre, harnessing energy
trio show Elsa Brès, Adele Dipasquale, Pedro A.H. Paixão

2024

MAISON SALVAN
trio show Nicolas Puyjalon, Elsa Brès, Tohé Commaret
october-december 2024, Labège, France

CINÉMA DU RÉEL
Les Sanglières at ParisDOC Works-In-Progress,
march 2024, Centre Pompidou, Paris

THE CHANNEL
group show, curated by Figure-Figure
Contemporaine de Nîmes,
april 2024, CACN, Nîmes, France

12e PRIX SCIENCES-PO POUR L’ART CONTEMPORAIN
winner of the jury prize
(jury : Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, Cédric Fauq, Sylvie Patry, Camille Richert, Julie Sanerot, Eden Tinto Collins, Anne Wachsmann)
group show, april 2024, Paris, France

PLAN L★★★★
“Les Sanglières. Au dela de la propriété” d’Elsa Brès, récit/essai autour du film en cours “Les Sanglières”, 10 pages,
numéro 206, février 2024

ART SITUACIONS
group show curated by Chus Martinez
february 2024, Fondation Fimenco, Romainville, France

2023

SOLASTALGIA
“la puissance des récits”, discussion with Cy Lecerf Maulpoix
invited by Non Fiction
november 2023, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

ART SITUACIONS
group show curated by Chus Martinez
october 2023, La Capela, Barcelona, Spain

MORE THAN HUMAN GAZE
Notes for les Sanglières screening, curated by Kuba Depczyński and Marcin Liminowicz,
september 2023, MoMA Warsaw, Poland

CINEMA FULGOR
Notes for les Sanglières screening, curated by Silvia Das Fadas,
september 2023, Mértola (sept 28) and São Luís (sept 29), Alentejo, Portugal

VIDEODROME2
Notes for les Sanglières screening, curated by Emma Cozzani
juin 2023, Marseille, France

ART SITUACIONS
group show curated by Chus Martinez
february 2023, ARCO, Madrid, Spain

FONDATION VINCENT VAN GOGH
“entre chien et loup”, screening curated by Julia Marchand et Margaux Bonopéra,
february 2023, Arles, France

COUPER LES FLUIDES
agora/discussion with Romain Nöel and Marion Zillio curated by Marianne Derrien,
march 2023, Maison des Arts de Malakoff, France

2022

︎ 3e FESTIVAL DES GESTES DE LA RECHERCHE
screening and talk, curated by Simone Frangi and Katia Schneller
november 2022, CNAC Magasin, Grenoble, France

︎SALON DE MONTROUGE
group show curated by Guillaume Désanges & Coline Davenne
laureate of Fondation Pernod Ricard award
october 2022, Paris/Montrouge, France

︎LANDSCAPES OF CARE
screening of Sweat and conference
7th Sophia Journal International Conference
Editors: Susana Ventura and Andreia Alves de Oliveira, Guest Editor: Armin Linke
September 2022, FAUP, Porto, Portugal

︎YALE UNIVERSITY
screening of Stella50.4N1.5E and publication in Paprika ! volume 8.
september 2022, New Haven, USA

︎BREAKING WATER
group show curated by Amara Antilla and Clelia Coussonnet
May 2022-January 2023, CAC Cincinnati, USA

︎VDROME.ORG
online screening of Notes for les Sanglières, curated by Filipa Ramos
introduced by Dorothy Yamamoto
January 2022

︎STATE OF CONCEPT ATHENS
“Notes for les Sanglières”, solo show
curated by Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou
https://stateofconcept.org/exhibition/bona-fide-2
27 may - 24 september 2022, Athens, Greece

︎ BBB Centre d’art
screening of Sweat and multi-screen version of Notes for les Sanglières
in the group show “Et j’ai vu le bout du pays où les nuages sont infinis”
curated by Stefania Meazza,
15 april - 13 july 2022, Toulouse, France

︎ TRANSMEDIALE
“This is not anarchy this is chaos” symposium
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
January 2022

︎FROM THE SHORE TO THE MUDPOOL
group show curated by SPIT collective
august 2022, Verksmiðinn in Hjalteyri, Iceland

︎MUSEUM NATIONAL D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE
screening of Sweat, curated by Benoît Hické
12 march 2022, Paris, France

︎FORÊTS QUEER
monographic screening & workshop
Saison France-Portugal 2022
avril 2022, Le Vigan, France

2021

︎COURTISANE FESTIVAL @ BÉTONSALON
public reading of “Whose history” by Lis Rhodes
dcember 2021, Bétonsalon, Paris, France

︎TËNK
Sweat, program curated by Aurélien Marsais
online : tenk.fr

︎ORDAINED, HORNY AND HORNED
group show curated by Cédric Fauq
october-november 2021, Spazio Veda, Florence, Italy

︎USAK FILM FESTIVAL
Sweat, international competition
december 2021, Usak, Turkey

︎KASSELER DOKFEST
Sweat, international competition
november 2021, Kassel, Germany

︎SOL ! la biennale du territoire
group show curated by Rahmouna Boutayeb, Caroline Chabrand, Pauline Faure
october-january 2021, MO.CO Panacée, Montpellier, France

︎I SCREAM ICE CREAM
group show, Jeune Création hors-les-murs,
curated by Noam Alon and Nadiejda Hachami Rousseau
september 2021, espace Niemeyer, Paris, France

︎TRANSMEDIALE
“remote.response.request II”
duo show Elsa Brès - Maud Craigie
curated by Ben Evans James
july-august 2021, Silent Green, Berlin, Germany

︎DOC ALLIANCE FILMS
Sweat, special program FIDMarseille
26 juillet-08 août 2021, en ligne sur https://dafilms.com/

︎LE LAIT CENTRE D’ART
screening curated by Antoine Marchand
19.20.21 août 2021, Tarn, France

︎LA CUISINE CENTRE D’ART
group show curated by Matthieu Duperrex, Marta Jonville, Joanne Pouzenc, Alex Römer,
july 2021, Negrepelisse, France

︎RÉSIDENCE “SLOW MOTION”
lauréate de l’appel à projet, en duo avec Élise Florenty
printemps 2021, Centre d’Art Contemporain Chanot, France

2020

︎DOCUMENTS D’ARTISTES OCCITANIE
selected artist 2020-2021
december 2020

︎UNIVERSITY OF HONG-KONG
projection & talk
invited by Sony Devabhaktuni, Proximate Space (MArch)
october 2020, Hong Kong, China

︎MANIFESTA 13
Sweat, screening
octobre 2020, Videodrome2, Marseille, France

︎MÉCÈNES DU SUD
production and research grant for SANGLIERS
september 2020

︎CANAL ROYAL - CRAC Occitanie
screening and show curated by Marie Cozette
in partnership with Mécènes du Sud
august 2020, Sète, France

︎FIDMarseille 2020
Sweat, world premiere
international competition FLASH and CNAP
july 2020

︎CNAP
research grant for SANGLIERS
mai 2020

︎CNC DICRÉAM
research grant for SANGLIERS
mars 2020

2019

◗ VIDEOBOX
Le Carreau du Temple
curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, Louise Vanoni, Julie Ackermann
november-décember 2019, Paris, France

◗ MISSISSIPPI: THE ANTHROPOCENE RIVER
Anthropocene curriculum seminar
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
novembre 2019, New Orleans, USA

◗ STELLA + LOVE CANAL
screening curated by Maaike Gouwenberg
may 2019, Southern Rep theatre, New Orleans, USA

◗ AUBE IMMÉDIATE, VENTS TIÈDES
group show curated by Victorine Grataloup and Diane Turquety
march-jue 2019, Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier, France

◗ THE WRONG BIENNALE
Speak Volumes pavillon
curated by Stefano Miraglia
november 2019-march 2019, en ligne

◗ LES SATURNALES PART.3 - LA MUE DE L’ARC
group show, live performance with Méryll Ampe
decembre 2019, Paris, France

◗ LET US REFLECT FILM FESTIVAL
Love Canal, screening
La Chapelle Saint-Jacques centre d’art contemporain,
octobre 2019, St Gaudens, France

◗ PROYECTOR 12
video art festival, Conde Duque
september 2019, Madrid, Spain

◗ BLIND SWAMP
in-situ installation, le Dôme festival
july 2019, Domaine de Candé, France

◗ LATERALE FILM FESTIVAL
Love Canal, international competition
june 2019, Cosenza, Italie

◗ LA RÉGION OCCITANIE
production grand for SWEAT
may 2019

◗ DOWN TO A SUNLESS SEA
Love Canal, screening
commissarait de Julia Borderie et Eloise Le Gallo
mai 2019, Arondit, Paris, France

◗ PRÉSAGES
exposition collective
commissariat de Laureen Picaut
mars 2019, Le lieu multiple - CACN hors les murs, Montpellier

◗ REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE
international film festival,
curated by Wenhua Shi
february 2019, Umass, Boston, USA

2018

◗ CIRCUITO NOMADICA,
Love Canal, screening curated by Stefano Miraglia
november 2018, Bologna, Italia

◗ JEUNE CRÉATION , 68ème édition
group show
may 2018, Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

◗ 8e Prix de la Jeune Création de Saint-Rémy
group show
september-october, Moulin des Arts de Saint-Rémy, France

◗ LIMA INDEPENDIENTE FILM FESTIVAL
Love Canal, international competition Fronteras Destruidas
june 2018, Lima, Peru

◗ FRACTO
Love Canal, international artist film festival
MATCA art space,
mai 2018, Berlin, Allemagne

◗ LOOP BARCELONA @ glaugoAIR
Stella50.4N1.5E, group show of the Loop Discover prize nominees,
february 2018, Berlin, Germany

◗ TERRA INCOGNITA
programme en ligne de films d’artistes
décembre 2018, www.saisonvideo.com

>FID MARSEILLE
fid campus
juillet 2017, Marseille, France

>HAMBURG SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
compétition Deframed,
juin 2017, Hamburg, Germany

>INDIE LISBOA FILM FESTIVAL
compétition Silvestre
mai 2017, Lisbon, Portugal

>UN FESTIVAL C’EST TROP COURT
festival européen du court-métrage de Nice
compétition expériences,
octobre 2017, Nice, France

>SHARED SIGHT
international film festival
MATCA artspace, compétition,
octobre 2017, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

>FRACTO
international artist film festival
MATCA art space,
mai 2017, Berlin, Allemagne

>VILLA MÉDICIS
20 ans du Fresnoy, cycle de projections,
octobre 2017, Rome Italie

>OOO
projection et artist talks,
Tainan National University of the Arts,
octobre 2017, Hualien county, Taïwan
>TRANSIENT VISIONS
festival of the moving image, film in competition
octobre 2017, johnson city, New York, United States

>IMAGINE SCIENCE
international film festival, film en competition
mai 2017, Paris, France

>OCCUPER-DISPARAÎTRE
cycle de projections “disparaître”
programmation de Charlotte Bayer-Broc et Elsa Brès,
octobre 2017, Le Génie d’Alex, Paris, France

>LOOP BARCELONA
exposition des nominés au prix Loop Discover,
mai-juin 2017, Barcelone, Espagne

>LE REVE DES FORMES
exposition collective au Palais de Tokyo
juillet 2017, Paris, France

>VIDEOPROJECT
biennale de vidéo, exposition collective “au Nord on rêve”,
commissariat Camille Gallard,
septembre 2017, palais des Beaux Arts d’Angers, France

>3rd ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENALE,
« Are We human? » exposition collective
commissariat de Beatriz Colomina et Mark Wigley
novembre 2016, Istanbul, Turkey

>AGORA
biennale d’architecture
exposition collective
commissariat de Bas Smets
septembre 2017, Bordeaux, France

>PANORAMA 19
Le Fresnoy
exposition collective
commissariat de Jean De Loisy
septembre-novembre 2017, Tourcoing, France

>TERRITOIRE FRUGAL
exposition et publication d’un livre
Archibooks Gallery
juillet 2017, Paris, France

>25 FPS FILM FESTIVAL, compétition Internationale,
septembre 2016, Zagreb, Croatia

>KASSELER DOKFEST
compétition internationale et nomination pour la Golden Key,
novembre 2016, Kassel, Germany

>GÉNIE DU LIEU
cycle de projection,
en partenariat avec l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lille,
novembre 2016, le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France

>PANORAMA 18,
exposition collective,
commissariat de Laurent Le Bon
octobre-decembre 2016, le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France

>DEMAIN DÈS L’AUBE, Primo Piano gallerie, exposition collective commissariat de Parand Danesh
juin 2016, Paris, France

>CATHARSIS
cinéma Aventure, programmation de Gwendal Sartre, Noé Grenier et Gilles Ribero
decembre 2015, Bruxelles, Belgium

>HABITER LE GRAND PARIS
cycle de projection, le CENTQUATRE 104
mai 2013, Paris, France

>PROXIMITÉ(S)
exposition collective, Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine
mai 2015, Paris, France

>IMAGINAIRE DU GRAND PARIS
cycle de projection, le Forum des Images
mai 2013, Paris, France

>HABITER LE GRAND PARIS
exposition collective, le CENTQUATRE 104
mai 2013, Paris, France

>ENTRÉE EN MATIÈRE
exposition collective, Julien Gourbeix’ studio
avril 2011, ENSCI, Paris, France

>HEURISTIQUE DE LA MAQUETTE
exposition collective, Alessandra Ponte’ studio,
mai 2011, galerie de l’Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

CONFERENCES & TALKS

▷ Producing films in an alternative way
round table
2025, Rencontres Cinématographiques des Belvédères

▷ Sweat et Les Sanglières
talk and discussion.
2023, ESAAA - école supérieure d'art annecy alpes

▷ A propos des Notes pour les Sanglières
talk, 3e Festival des Gestes de la Recherche,
2022, CNAC Magasin, Grenoble, France

▷ Landscape of care
FAUP International Conference, keynote speaker,
2022, Porto School of Architecture, Portugal

▷ topographie/spéculation,
masterclass, école d’architecture de l’Université de Montréal,
2022, Canada

▷ Les Sanglières - work in progress
Slow Motion, Centre d’Art Contemporain Chanot,
2022, Meudon, France

▷ Les Sanglières - work in progress
symposium transmediale2022 , Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
2022, Berlin, Germany

▷ Filmmaking and architecture:
a pragmatic, speculative and disruptive approach to the territory
Hong Kong University, Proximate Space (MArch)
octobre 2020, Hong Kong, China

▷Mississippi: the anthropocene river
Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin symposium
november 2019, Tulane University New Orleans

▷Le Fresnoy revisité, roundtable with Bernard Tschumi, Alain Fleischer, Elsa Brès, Arnold Pasquier, Alain Guiheux
10 octobre 2018, Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris

▷LOVE CANAL: an ecology of objects
october 2017, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan

▷Architecture>Object>Architecture
october 2017, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan

▷Wear, Landscape, Point Clouds, Mississippi
june 2016, Demain Dès l’Aube, galery Primo Piano, Paris

▷Cartographie Vidéo
colloque international, Appréhender autrement les quartiers populaires
june 2015, la Dynamo, Pantin, France

▷Dessiner le territoire par le montage
Futurs Urbains Colloque International
january 2013, Marnes la Vallée, France

TEACHING

⬂ 2024
DNA jury
TALM le Mans

⬂ 2022
Forêts Queer (Cévennes-Açores), Saison France-Portugal
workshop de réalisation pour adolescents

⬂ 2021
Beaux-Arts de Marseille, moving-image workshop
“films situés”

⬂ 2021
LISAA, workshop cinema

⬂ 2020
PACTE, La Maréchalerie centre d’art contemporain

⬂ 2019
la Fabrique du Regard, le BAL x ADAGP

⬂ janvier-juin 2018
invited artist, with Eva Byzery
Le Corbusier high school, Aubervilliers

⬂ 2017
invited artist, workshop “OOO”
Tainan National University of the Arts,Taiwan

⬂ 2017
workshop
le Fresnoy studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France

⬂ 2011.2016
architecture theory - teaching assistant
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paris-Belleville (ENSAPB)

⬂ 2014.now
jury member in architecture schools
ENSA Paris-Belleville & ENSA Malaquais, Paris

RESEARCH

2020
research SSD2030, CNRS
artist

septembre 2017
Espaces Bleus research, Paola Vigano, studio 017, Lille-Tournai-Kortrij
invited artist

2015.2017
ANR FRUGAL Figures Rurales de l’Urbain GénérALisé
GIS mapping colloborator & photograph

2014.2015
Institut Nationale de Recherche Scientifique (Montréal) et laboratoire LAVUE (ENSA Paris Val de Seine)
architecte vidéaste de la recherche-création en études urbaines pour la création de vidéoguides participatifs de quartiers populaires, à Aubervilliers et Pantin
architect videoartist for a research by design on urban studies through participatives videoguides

2012.2013
HABITER LE GRAND PARIS, BMCA team
Atelier International du Grand Paris
research in GIS cartography and experimental videos

AWARDS & GRANTS

FRAC OCCITANIE MEZZANINE SUD PRIZE
2025 laureate

SCIENCES-PO CONTEMPORARY ART PRIZE
2024 laureate

FONDATION PERNOD RICARD PERSPECTIVE AWARD @ Salon de Montrouge
2022 laureate

SERPENTINE UK back to earth film award
2022 nominee (by Filipa Ramos)

LOOP Barcelona discover prize
2017 nominee

DOCS KINGDOM Dear Doc Mais Francia fellowship 2025

TËNK x MEDIAPART co-production grant 2023

CNC writing grant 2023

DOCUMENTS D’ARTISTES OCCITANIE selected artist 2020

MÉCÈNES DU SUD art production grant 2020

CNAP art production grant 2020

CNC - DICRÉAM writing grant 2019

Occitanie region art production grant 2018

RESIDENCIES

SLOW MOTION
résidence de recherche Centre d’Art Contemporain Chanot
en duo avec Élise Florenty
printemps 2021

LE DÔME FESTIVAL
commissariat de Constantin Jopeck et Baptiste Jopeck
septembre 2020, Montbazon, France

L’ORFEVRERIE
résidence
novembre 2018 - aout 2019, Saint Denis, France

LE DÔME FESTIVAL
commissariat de Constantin Jopeck et Baptiste Jopeck
juin-juillet 2019, Montbazon, France

DELTAWORKERS
résidence
avril-mai 2019, New Orleans, USA

CITÉ INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS
lauréate de la commission Arts Visuels
artiste en résidence
à partir de janvier 2018, Paris, France

LE DÔME FESTIVAL
commissariat de Constantin Jopeck et Baptiste Jopeck
juillet 2018, Montbazon, France