Jonathan Vinel

French Touch: Coming of Age

Caroline Poggi, Hadrien Bichet

Manon Carrand, Lucas Doméjean

Unfamiliar stories that are universally relatable, these teenagers are put into situations which they have no experience deal with. A reflective anthology of French short films exploring the elation and heartbreak of not quite knowing who you are yet.

Martin Cries

Jonathan Vinel

Paul Hamy, Clémence Diard

Martin cries. He is alone. He woke up in the morning and all his friends were gone. Disappeared. Just not there. He sets off to look for them. And he searches everywhere, in the city, in the mountains, in the rivers, but he doesn’t find them. That makes him furious. Really furious – really sad. Rage, violence, longing, loneliness. Without fear of great feelings, without fear of one's own courage and without fear of violence, Jonathan Vinel tells a story of love and loss entirely based on elements from the computer game Grand Theft Auto V – beyond all kinds of tawdry notions and with extremely concrete physicality.

Notre héritage

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

Sarah-Megan Allouch-Mainier, Lucas Doméjean

Lucas invites his girlfriend Anäis to visit him at home. His parents aren’t around. The garden is all theirs. They can make love there. A photograph hangs on the wall of a man with a tiger in his arms. “Is that your father?” asks Anäis. “Yes, that’s my father. He’s the chairman of a tiger protection group in Thailand.” The father is Pierre Woodman, the famous pornographic film director. Lucas enters into an imaginary dialogue with his father. He makes an attempt to understand his father and makes an attempt at love himself – always in view of his father, who practised it incessantly.Then Lucas confers Anäis with a knighthood and fiction soars above reality.

After School Knife Fight

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

Marylou Mayniel, Lucas Doméjean

Laëtitia, Roca, Nico and Naël are in a band. As per usual, they meet late afternoon before rehearsal in a vacant lot. The group will soon no longer exist; they will be forced to disband because Laetitia is moving away to study. This is the story of four young adults who do not want to say good-bye.

Tant qu'il nous reste des fusils à pompe

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

Lucas Doméjean, Nicolas Mias

Two young men in a nearly abandoned suburban landscape deal with the suicide of one of their friends by shotgunning beers and joining a gang.

Jessica Forever

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

Aomi Muyock, Sebastian Urzendowsky

Jessica is the leader of a group of lost boys with a violent past who now seek peace and harmony. She is the only one to have ever brought them love and understanding. They only wish to create a world where they can live in peace together, and forever.

A.B.

Jonathan Vinel

A fantasized portrait of Ashlynn Brooke.

Bébé Colère

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

Barbara Braccini, Jonathan Vinel

A default CGI animated child is confronted with modern subjectivity and world coming of age issues, making animation a gloomy tool to subdue modern narrative feelings in favour of despair and micro-dosed hope. Animation based routines and easy-portraiture of desolation are strategically organised as a grim Dark Toon.

Bouloc Is Magic

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

Short film made for the Ulule campaign for As Long as Shotguns Remain.

Prince, puissance, souvenirs

Jonathan Vinel

Claire Rolain, Benjamin Hameury

At the school gymnasium, a prince and his friends are training to commit an attack.

Plastique Boy

Jonathan Vinel

Early short by Jonathan Vinel.

Ultra Rêve

Caroline Poggi, Yann Gonzalez

Three short films, out of the ordinary, brought together under a bewitching and enticing title. They are After School Knife Fight by the duo Poggi/Vinel, Les Îles by Gonzales, and Ultra Pulpe by Mandico. Three atmospheres, three sensitivities, going through three forms of expression (music, theatre and cinema) and which, put end-to-end, create an alternative pathway towards borrowed worlds of romance first, then obsession, and in the end, possession. Worlds of soft naivety, of nightmarish creatures and of pop fantasy, reminding us of the mysterious and velvety snatches of our dreams that stick to the spirit when one leaves them.

Notre amour est assez puissant

Jonathan Vinel

A video game love story.

Limbo Visions 1

Caroline Poggi, Lucile Hadžihalilović

Four filmmakers share a montage of their original ghost images and rushes on a mix of I've seen the future.

Play

Jonathan Vinel

My neighbour committed suicide. He was car tuning at the end of his life. I played football with him. Child. And also ping-pong. Herepaired our computer. He was called Gilles my neighbour. We cannot play any more. In a room, a boy reminds himself his dead friends.

Grand Blanc – Tendresse

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

A cold and almost insubstantial world, enveloped in a soft atmosphere. Poggi and Vinel transform physical and extreme pulsions into hypnotic and misty images, spreading a sense of lightness.