June Balthazard

Born in 1991 in France, June Balthazard studied at the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts (ISBA) in Besançon and at the Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva in the Cinema Department. She also did a post-graduation at Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains where she directed two documentaries: La rivière Tanier and Le baiser du silure.

Her work mixes heterogeneous elements. In particular, she confronts the documentary with forms that are further from reality and that do not betray it but, on the contrary, illuminate and transfigure it. In this sense, her films are imbued with a magical realism.

Her work has been shown in exhibitions such as Les liaisons équivoques at the Musée des Beaux-arts de Dole, at conferences such as Séances Spéciales at the FRAC Franche-Comté and in international festivals, such as the Winterthur Short Film Festival in Switzerland, the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in France, Go Short in the Netherlands, the RIDM in Canada or Visions du réel in Switzerland, where she received the Opening Scenes award in 2018.