Louise Traon

Louise Traon was born in Paris in 1985. After studying modern Litterature, she directed her first film, Peau d’ours, a documentary essay about the writer Henri Calet. With this film, she ran away from TV reportage to choose a sensitive cinema, always searching new forms. Following this guideline, she made several projects, always between documentary and fiction. She wants to record reality through staging a point of view. After a journey to Sarajevo (at the André Malraux Center), she wrote a short film : Sarajevo's Garden. Before shooting, she asked the painter Thoma Vuille (who also went in Sarajevo) to draw those images that a scenario cannot perfectly transmit. Sarajevo is a current topic in her artistic creations, such as in her short documentary film Colonel Berger. In 2014, she made a more intimist film, White Gloves, about the editing of the last film by Manoel de Oliveira. In this documentary, she portrays the cineast and his editor while building a though about her childhood's cinema disappearance.