Lého Galibert-Laîné

Directing

Lého Galibert-Laîné

Born 1992-01-01 · France

Lého Galibert-Laîné (1992, France) is a researcher and filmmaker. They are currently finishing a PhD in the arts at the École normale supérieure de Paris. In addition, they teach theory classes and artistic workshops on film and media at several institutions across Europe, including the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and Johannes Gutenberg University. Their work mainly explores the intersection between cinema and online media. Galibert-Laîné has directed several award-winning short films and stage productions, and their video essays on film and media are regularly screened in academic contexts and at film festivals. They often work together with filmmaker and media artist Kevin B. Lee; they have presented their collaborative works at IFFR, True/False Film Festival, Open City Documentary Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival and London Essay Film Festival as well as art venues such as the Ars Electronica Festival and the WRO Media Art Biennale.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Eye Was in the Tomb and Stared at Daney poster
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Through a series of text, clips, and sounds popping up on a simulated computer screen, French researcher and filmmaker Chloé Galibert-Laîné investigates the noise that terrified Daney, as well as those that have scared her; the result proving its success by, spooking us in turn.

The Eye Was in the Tomb and Stared at Daney

2017

The Eye Was in the Tomb and Stared at Daney poster
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Through a series of text, clips, and sounds popping up on a simulated computer screen, French researcher and filmmaker Chloé Galibert-Laîné investigates the noise that terrified Daney, as well as those that have scared her; the result proving its success by, spooking us in turn.

The Eye Was in the Tomb and Stared at Daney

2017

Bottled Songs: My Crush Was a Superstar poster
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"This video was produced as part of an ongoing collaborative project on terrorist media. The project aims to explore the contents and contexts for production of terrorist media and to question how these images migrate from social media to news broadcasts, from phones to computers, from the Middle East to other regions of the globe. This specific video explores the online presence of the French-Moroccan jihadist known as Abu Abdallah Guitone who died in Syria in 2014."

Bottled Songs: My Crush Was a Superstar

2017

The Burrow poster
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Odile lives alone. Afraid that someone might enter her flat when she’s not at home, she enters a video surveillance online community, in the hope that users will keep an eye on her apartment and inform her in case of unexpected intrusion. And the intrusion happens: dark smudges appear on the walls. Furious, she decides to leave the community. While she tries to fight against infiltrations, she realizes that she is still on watch…

The Burrow

2015

Peeping Ruth poster
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This video essay explores the gender dynamics behind the acts of looking and being-looked-at in Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947).

Peeping Ruth

2017

GeoMarkr poster
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A film that brings two worlds into dialogue: that of the online game GeoGuessr and that of the filmography of Chris Marker, the filmmaker and multimedia artist, deeply fascinated by digital technology and travel.

GeoMarkr

2023

GeoMarkr poster
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A film that brings two worlds into dialogue: that of the online game GeoGuessr and that of the filmography of Chris Marker, the filmmaker and multimedia artist, deeply fascinated by digital technology and travel.

GeoMarkr

2023

Forensickness poster
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A film about Chris Kennedy’s Watching the Detectives (2018), a detective comedy appropriating for its own purposes the principle of its model: inquiring about the inquirer.

Forensickness

2020

Forensickness poster
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A film about Chris Kennedy’s Watching the Detectives (2018), a detective comedy appropriating for its own purposes the principle of its model: inquiring about the inquirer.

Forensickness

2020

Dupieux / Haneke - an essay on metacinema poster
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What do the numerous similarities between the films of Michael Haneke and Quentin Dupieux reveal about their respective filmmaking strategies?

Dupieux / Haneke - an essay on metacinema

2017

Flânerie 2.0 poster
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At the turn of the 20th century, the 'flâneurs' started disappearing from the Parisian landscape. Walter Benjamin became, in his posthumous book 'Das Passagen-Werk', the witness of their extinction. What if one century later, against all odds, the art of flânerie was reappearing in Paris?

Flânerie 2.0

2018

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A researcher finds a phone video showing hundreds of ISIS captives running through a desert. She is puzzled that the video is posted on YouTube by Les Observateurs, a French state-funded news channel as a work of “citizen journalism”. While the video has been removed from many other channels, the French news channel’s legitimacy allows the video to remain online and spread terror over several years. Further investigation uncovers multiple variants of the footage on countless other sites, leading her to despair.

Bottled Songs: The Observer

2020

Bottled Songs 1-4 poster
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Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee compose letters addressed to each other, narrating their encounters with videos originating from the terrorist group the Islamic State (ISIS). They use a desktop documentary approach to trace and record their investigations playing directly upon their computer screens.

Bottled Songs 1-4

2021

Bottled Songs 1-4 poster
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Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee compose letters addressed to each other, narrating their encounters with videos originating from the terrorist group the Islamic State (ISIS). They use a desktop documentary approach to trace and record their investigations playing directly upon their computer screens.

Bottled Songs 1-4

2021

Bottled Songs 1-4 poster
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Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee compose letters addressed to each other, narrating their encounters with videos originating from the terrorist group the Islamic State (ISIS). They use a desktop documentary approach to trace and record their investigations playing directly upon their computer screens.

Bottled Songs 1-4

2021

A very long exposure time poster
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Inventing a poetic path through images created with Louis Daguerre's centuries-old photographic device, 16mm film cameras, pixelated video games consoles, early smarphones and contemporary computer interfaces, the work asks: what aspects of reality have these different technologies been designed to document? What phenomenon, either too slow or too fast to be recorded, have escaped their capture? Are there still dimensions of our experience on Earth that have never been visually documented, and for which photographic techologies are yet to be invented ?

A very long exposure time

2020

Why Framing Matters in Movies poster
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Produced as part of an end-of-the-year series of videos looking back at films released in 2015, this video essay asks: when does the act of framing an image become a political gesture?

Why Framing Matters in Movies

2017

Planning Unexpected Encounters: the Making of Route One USA by Robert Kramer poster
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A poetic journey through the collages of paper maps made by Robert Kramer during the preparation of the shooting of Route One USA, to which are superimposed excerpts from his diary, and scenes from the finished film. How do you prepare a shoot when your desire is simply to leave, camera in hand, on the roads, and document unexpected encounters?

Planning Unexpected Encounters: the Making of Route One USA by Robert Kramer

2018

I Would Like to Rage poster
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From role playing games to animated GIFs, from reenacted performances to poetic writing, this video essay asks: what is an authentic expression of anger?

I Would Like to Rage

2023

Reading Binging Benning poster
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How much can you see of a movie you can't see? A speculative video essay on the film READERS by James Benning.

Reading Binging Benning

2018

Re-enacting the Future poster
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A video essay by Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee. Commissioned by Dana Linssen and Jan Pieter Ekker for Critics Choice V: Absence, 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Special thanks to Bero Beyer. Dedicated to the film I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS by Radu Jude.

Re-enacting the Future

2019

Re-enacting the Future poster
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A video essay by Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee. Commissioned by Dana Linssen and Jan Pieter Ekker for Critics Choice V: Absence, 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Special thanks to Bero Beyer. Dedicated to the film I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS by Radu Jude.

Re-enacting the Future

2019

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Two researchers investigate the dissemination of propaganda created by the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State and contemplate the media’s role in spreading this message. Exchanging video letters recorded from their computer desktops, the researchers share their thoughts and fears as they each dissect pieces of media produced by ISIS in 2014 that are still available online today.

Bottled Songs 1 & 2

2020

The Human, The Machine, and Spike Jonze poster
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The Human, The Machine, and Spike Jonze

2017