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From 12 to 29 March 2026
École Supérieure d’Art ET DE DESIGN LE HAVRE-ROUEN
École Supérieure d’Art ET DE DESIGN LE HAVRE-ROUEN
The Le Havre-Rouen College of Art and Design is a Public Establishment for Cultural Cooperation (EPCC) dedicated to higher education and research under the educational supervision of the French Ministry of Culture. ESADHaR offers a wide range of artistic training through a variety of programs focused on art and graphic design, as well as a Master’s degree in Literary Creation. The RADIAN program, a doctoral degree in artistic research and creation, completes the range of courses offered. Thanks to its various exhibition venues and co-organized events, ESADHaR is one of the major cultural players in Normandy. The Art Department aims to train visual artists capable of working with a wide range of different media. It encourages experimentation and research in all its forms through the cross-disciplinarity of its teachings.
Website: https://esadhar.fr/
Presentation of the class:
Coordinator: Jason Karaïndros
The works being presented this year at VIDEOFORMES 2026 stem from a video module that I have been teaching for the past three years to third-year and postgraduate students (fourth and fifth years), from the video course I have been teaching to second-year students for some twenty years, and from my individual supervision of the work of students at ESADHaR in Rouen. These are courses that are both theoretical and practical. Almost every year, a selection was made from this work and shown in exhibition venues in Rouen city centre or other towns. Often, these were evening video screenings in public spaces. This project, called Fenêtres sur Rue, which served as a platform for exchanges with other art schools, came to an end three years ago. However, the desire to share our students’ completed work with a wider audience has been realised over two consecutive years through our participation in VIDEOFORMES. Five students in 2024, eight students in 2025 and myself were able, over three days on each occasion, to discover the festival’s extraordinary programme.
VIDEO PROGRAMME
Symbiose chamanique | Alexandra VUJISIC | 2025
Two beings, on the same shot, sharing the same body and yet carrying two distinct lives. They live through a mystical song, guided by a heart beating to the rhythm of an ocarina.
A GLIMPSE OF YOU | Lisa-Marie DUE | 2025
A remote connection can take up more space than a direct relationship. Through the little details of everyday life, an absence suddenly becomes ever-present, like a shadow that follows you everywhere. This video explores how a relationship can shape our emotions, our thoughts and the way we see the world.
Lumières de villes | Marion SENECAL | 2025
This experimental video is an aesthetic exploration of the lights that inhabit urban spaces.
Citron | Nino LE CAUCHOIS | 2025
Citron is the result of a myriad of factors. Under ideal conditions, it should neither be debated, nor explained, nor even fully understood. This video sparked some fundamental questions which, over the course of a few years, came to play a much greater role in my work.
À la quête de mon moi disparu | Soyeong LEE | 2025
“Living life to the fullest” refers to an individual’s ability to look after themselves within the context of nature and society. “One must live life to the fullest” should not be a command directed at others, but a commitment to oneself. Yet, at a certain point, this endeavour becomes a response to the expectations of others. Our work explores this transition and the gradual loss of control over one’s own life.
Éclipse | Roman TABAR-NOUVAL | 2025
This video depicts a troubled state of mind, on the verge of breaking point. The tension builds as dark thoughts multiply. Paradoxically, these thoughts are represented by bright, colourful flashes that disrupt the actor’s mind. This build-up inevitably leads to an explosion. The rising tension is heightened by the use of audio that builds to a crescendo. Then, suddenly, silence and breathing come to soothe — to silence — these thoughts.
Accablée | Meryl CLEMENCEAU | 2025
This video is a reworked recording of a performance that has taken various forms: performed alone, without text; with text; and with friends reading it. Here, it brings together the first performance and the second part, in which I read the text. Public space is a place of violence and insecurity for women. The accordion, with its weight and history, serves to illustrate this public burden. The act of baring oneself refers to the oversexualisation of our bodies in the street.
Trailer of TROIS | ATELIER BABO (Hyunseok YOON, Tom LECOINTRE, Oscar DUJARRIER) | 2025
In a post-apocalyptic world plagued by drought and raging wildfires, a figure explores industrial ruins clad in protective gear. He plants three shoots in this desolate landscape, a symbol of fragile hope in the face of human destruction. Nature is gradually reclaiming its space.
Ondulations brutales | Timothée PRESLES | 2025
In a magnetic society, filled with invisible, painless and imperceptible waves, what we see here is the perspective of someone who is overly affected by them. A mobile phone in a pocket, in the hand or pressed against the ear, a clock radio ready to go off, a new 5G subscription… is this really how we want to live?
Sieste | Lola-Rosetta LESAIN, Lucas PHILIPPE | 2024
“I can only work through memory, through the essential nature in which the memory of things operates. I can do so only through the filter of memory, which settles, breaks things down, and gets to the heart of things. ” (Federico Fellini). An excerpt from my film Summer 2025, composed of scenes that transpose my current performative work into the very substance of my childhood memories, my grandmother’s village and her stories.