A Joyful Mess

Snapshots
The secret of the furniture man
The Mystery of the Enchanted Plug

Edito

The Joyful Mess of Romy Alizée
(or thanks for the trouble)

Authentic artistic (and photographic) expression often steers clear of two marker buoys: on the one hand the presentation of an aesthetic or societal discourse in photos, and on the other the production of pretty, decorative, formalistic images.

On the one hand over-significant and pontificating, and on the other too aware of their appeal, but hollow, the images then become indigestible, and can only be taken seriously.

For Romy, it's hard to imagine an art that has nothing to say, yet at the same time, in what she does, she sees herself as an artist not an activist. Derision is one of her trump cards. Playing on lightness and distance, playful detachment in the creation of images, she pulls off a double tour de force:

She is part of the history of eroticism in photography; at the same time she forcefully affirms the appropriation of female desire and plural desires.

History as written by men has so far only valued certain women's bodies.

Either they were "in spite of themselves" reassuring and submissive objects of desire or, conversely, dominatrices. The same goes for men seen by men (Parnassian idealization and its "bad-boy" counterpart).

Everything was nicely -oops!- squared away.

History's new pages, raw, funny aesthetics, look once and then again: it's just an image, but a fair image, which casually emancipates itself from several forms of oppression: gender, class, etc.

We can feel disturbed by the images that Romy offers us, and that's fine; we shouldn't have ideas that are too well-ordered – they quickly gather dust.

The Films

19’

Snapshots | Romy Alizée

Photography as a tool for empowerment and artistic expression.

In the privacy of her apartment, we discover Romy Alizée, directing bodies (women, men & non binary) with unabashed sexuality, in search of intensity and beauty. Captured in flash, her photos affirm the power of a very personal sexual aesthetic, never devoid of humour. Between directing shoots and hanging her exhibition, the photographer unzips the heart of her work and unveils her new project: documenting sex workers far from the images they get stuck with.

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Romy et Laure et le mystère de l'homme meuble0003

6’

Romy & Laure… and the secret of the furniture man

Delve into the whimsical and erotic adventures of Romy & Laure.

Between parties with their gang of super girlfriends, occasional Boy-Gifts and Amazonian explorations, life passes quietly for Laure and Romy... But one evening..." In this photographic-cinematic tale (for adults), Romy and Laure are faced with a mysterious, terrifying apparition: a man. But they soon realise he isn't so threatening after all... A photographic film that shakes up the rule book with lots of humour.

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11’

Romy & Laure and the Mystery of the Enchanted Plug

A daring erotic tale unveiling female sexuality with humor and art.

This cine-tale about sex is falsely naive banter that shows everything, with the photographs of Romy Alizée. The lightness of tone serves as a decoy to better dynamite, jigsaw-style, the last clichés on female sexuality. The poster on the wall of a film by Catherine Breillat, A Real Young Girl, is a reference: Romy & Laure's "real" young girls have sex organs and do what they want with them.

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