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12- 29 March 2026
École Nationale Supérieure d'Art et de Design de Limoges
The Ensad Limoges, a national art school under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture, trains 200 students for the DNA (National Diploma of Fine Arts) and DNSEP (National Higher Diploma of Fine Arts) in Art and Design. It is distinguished by its rare specializations in Ceramics and Contemporary Jewelry. Spanning 7,500 m², the school combines cutting-edge equipment with traditional craftsmanship. Its teaching methods combine eco-responsible material experimentation (clay, wood, 3D printing, multimedia) with theoretical reflection, guided by a multidisciplinary team and more than 50 guest lecturers annually. With a strong international focus (China, Japan, Europe), it offers a dynamic curriculum punctuated by workshops, trips, and research, preparing students for the challenges of contemporary creation.
Website: https://www.ensad-limoges.fr/en/
Presentation of the class:
Coordinator: Fabrice Cotinat
One of the major objectives of a school dedicated to higher education in art is to examine new media. With them, the status and definition of the artist are also called into question. Dialogue with cinema is an essential element of this exercise. Since 2013, the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Limoges has extended, in its undergraduate and graduate programs, educational initiatives dedicated to research on images in general and audiovisual media in particular. The workshop brings together the practices of photography and video. Through its Machines sensibles studio, it proposes to re-examine the status of images via contemporary viewing devices. These are considered here as technical tools for creation, but also as critical devices and poetic objects. The studio proposes to explore these instruments, not only in their capacity to produce images, but also in the ways in which they can be conceived, disrupted, and exhibited. Students are invited to combine artistic experimentation and theoretical reflection, questioning the interactions between image, sound, and space, while also examining the role of gesture within these systems. Since 2017, the studio has established partnerships with the Frac-Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Cinémathèque de Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the École européenne supérieure de l’image (ÉESI), and the École supérieure d’art et de design des Pyrénées (ESAD Pau) through the creation of a shared platform: Infini Cinéma.
VIDEO PROGRAMME
Your turn | Agathe SELDUBUISSON | 2025
A sonic self-portrait. An attempt to describe myself through the rhythm of images and sounds.
La course | Elf GUIGNARD | 2025
A sister addresses her sister who lost the race, but above all, those who will watch it. This short film is conceived as a letter, an interior monologue. The film’s shots are a deliberate choice of images, framing, and sounds… A journey through visual narratives running parallel to the voice.
Brigitte et Sasha | Mia DAMART | 2025
This is a remake of an archival film by Jean Pierre Bruneau, a filmmaker from Limoges who repeatedly filmed the daily life of his wife, Brigitte. Revisiting his archives allows me to recontextualize his images. By reproducing them, I am particularly interested in the role women played in amateur films at that time.
Coeur de robot | Mia DAMART | 2025
Two students find themselves invaded by an artificial intelligence through a faulty electrical connection. After accidentally seeing a screening of family archives on the theme of meals, they steal the film roll and then try to ingest it in order to learn more about human customs and traditions. They end up sitting down to a makeshift meal, aiming to imitate this purely human tradition. This film was made for a short film competition organised by the Cinémathèque de Nouvelle Aquitaine, on the theme of “family meals.”
Chaotic | Naomi DA COSTA | 2025
My first video. Having no experience in video production and editing at the time, I knew the result would be very rough, imperfect… chaotic.
I accepted this and ended up making this issue the focus of the project. A collection of videos filmed on my phone for the occasion, mixed with my personal videos and photos, all edited and assembled using several free phone apps. A jumble of techniques, rhythms, and diverse moods: a visual and sonic representation of the chaos of an art student’s life… of life itself.
On y est presque | Sarah FORD | 2024
Designed to be played on a loop, On y est presque brings together around twenty found film primers, reassembled with their original sound and then reinterpreted. From these residual and marginal fragments emerges a circular movement, where the images salvaged from the 35mm film surface appear, flicker, and restart indefinitely.
Nightswimming | Sarah FORD | 2024
Using a rediscovered film reel, Nightswimming explores the surface and depth of the filmic material through scratching, engraving, and reinterpretation of the original sound. The film becomes a living material, traversed by pulsations and currents of light. A vertiginous descent into the invisible layers of the image, like a journey into the depths.