Pauline Julier is interested in the relation between reality and fiction, and how reality intersects with our own fictions. Her short films combine real and imaginary elements.

Noé
22′, 16/9, HD, COLOR, 2010
The viewer experiences Noé’s nightmare. Outside, the world has disappeared under ice. As he attempts to escape the nightmarish vision a surprising melody out of sync and desperate, invades the space, causes chaos and allows the viewer to withdraw from the film.

After
8’33”, 16/9, HD/SUPER16MM, 2012
Through an analogy borrowed from the American writer David Foster Wallace, the film depicts a post-modern feeling: an era in which the party has already ended. The fireworks are a distant spectacle and the clear sky has a strange and empty color.

Pauline Julier lives and works in Geneva. Her films have been shown in contemporary art centres, institutions and festivals around the world, among them the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Loop Festival in Barcelona, the Tokyo Wonder Site in Tokyo, New York, Madrid, Berlin, Zagreb, at the Cinémathèque in Toronto or the Pera Museum in Istanbul. Julier was awarded the Prix d’art fédéral suisse in 2010.

Pauline Julier will take part in the Biennale of Moving Images 2014 organized by the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève in September 2014. She will present her new documentary essay entitled Something we don’t know about coconut trees. The film explores the relation between the landscape and the legends surrounding a small South Pacific Island threatened by a rise in the sea level. Mythological accounts are combined to a detailed visual description of the island.