In November 2021, the Institut français launched IFdigital, the website for French digital design. Digital art, video games, innovative books, web design and immersive experiences: IFdigital presents the best of French design and professionals in these innovative sectors of the cultural and creative...
Welcome to 2040: a layer of augmented reality is added to reality to guide you better or encourage you to consume in the urban space. Will you be able to resist it? Presentation of M.O.A., an augmented reality app created by Charles Ayats, for smartphones.
Trained at Le Fresnoy and INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle), Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis questions the circulation of images, but also memory and technology in his ambitious cinematographic work. His film Swatted, which deals with cyber-harassment, is presented in the...
Fabienne Azzaro is the administrator of FAIR, a scheme to help new music artists at the start of their careers, which supports 14 emerging artists each year, particularly in their initial international experience. To name but a few, IAM, Philippe Katerine and Christine & the Queens have all...
Circus artist and director Maroussia Diaz Verbeke is about to present her new show, 23 fragments de ces derniers jours (23 fragments of these last days), created in collaboration with the Brazilian collective Instrumento de Ver and supported by the Institut français.
Discover all 30 projects offered by the French cultural network in Europe during the 6 months of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (FPEU) to celebrate "European creativity".
From 4 June, the Métropole Toulon Provence Méditerranée will be offering a packed multidisciplinary programme as part of the France-Portugal 2022 Season.
On the occasion of the RIDA (Interregional and international meetings of artistic distribution), organised in Mayotte from May 25 to May 31 by the Onda (French National Office of Artistic Distribution), the Institut français invited foreign professionals to discover El Had Dhalani. Portrait of this...
Jana Budkovskaja runs OBJEKT, a multi-media business development platform in Estonia. The organisation is aiding the development and European deployment of the Micro-Folies digital museum project supervised by the Ministry of Culture and accompanied by La Villette. In the framework of the...
For nearly two decades, Jean-Marie Songy has directed the Furies festival (7-11 June 2022) in Châlons-en-Champagne, dedicated to street art and contemporary creation. This year, the Institut français is organising a Circus Focus (9-11 June 2022), in partnership with the festival, to support foreign...
Roei Amit is in charge of the Grand Palais Immersif, a subsidiary of the Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais specialising in immersive exhibitions. He talks to us about his ambitions for the Grand Palais Immersif, the exhibition Mona Lisa: an immersive exhibition co-produced with the...
With Jailbirds: Bwa Kayiman, the first episode in a trilogy of short films in VR, the director Thomas Villepoux adapts a graphic novel by Philippe Foerster initially published in Fluide Glacial. The piece is being presented at the Forum des Images in Paris as part of the 2022 NewImages Festival, a...
Journalist and writer Olivier Guez works between literary material and historical research, on large and documented works such as La Disparition de Josef Mengele (Prix Renaudot 2017). Last March, he published Le Grand Tour, a collection of twenty-seven texts written by European authors for the...
Masterfully directed by Yngvild Aspeli, Moby Dick is an adaptation of Herman Melville's mythical work, halfway between theatre and puppet show. Supported internationally by the Institut français, the Plexus Polaire company has already presented Moby Dick in Portugal, with the support of the Institut...
We look back at the event held on Kulturnatt (Night of Culture) 2022 on 23 April, by the Institut français in Sweden at the Résidence de France. Kulturnatt is an evening event organised by the City of Stockholm, giving the public an opportunity to discover different cultural institutions that open...