La Poupée noire (2026)
Writer and director of a 26min ARTE France documentary, La Poupée noire, on French painter James Tissot’s Portrait des quatre enfants d’Emile Gaillard (1868), which features a Black French Caribbean doll.
Co-written with Seumboy Vrainom :€ of Histoires Crépues.
Produced by Bellota Films, Winner of the 2025 Procirep Producer Award – Documentary Category, represented by Nasser Sari.
Edited by Nayla Baghdadi.
Academic advisory by Seloua Luste Boulbina.
Original music by Uèle Lamore.
Interpretative dance by Inès Vebole.
Developed in partnership with musée d’Orsay, Cité de l’Économie – Hôtel Gaillard & Procirep-Angoa – Société des producteurs de cinéma et de télévision.
Premiere event at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, on November 19, 2026.
Les statues de la discorde (2021)
Contributor to Emile Rabaté’s France Télévisions documentary Les statues de la discorde, May 2021.
I contributed viral footage I filmed and edited of activist actions involving, among others, Seumboy Vrainom (Histoires Crépues), Françoise Vergès, and Vikash Dhorasoo on June 18, 2020, during the tagging and “draping in black” of the statue of Marshal Gallieni on Place Vauban in Paris.
“In France’s overseas territories, as well as in metropolitan France, activists and intellectuals engaged in the fight against racism are confronting the material traces of the past — including statues. By denouncing the presence of certain monuments and street names, vestiges of slavery and colonization, they call for recognition of a silenced history and a more just society. In Martinique, Paris, and La Réunion, they challenge the symbols of the colonial legacy, taking their cause even before the courts.”
The action called for the statue’s removal from public display and its relocation to a museum or a contextualized setting, rather than its continued glorification in the streets of Paris, France.
As of today, this demand remains unfulfilled.