Villa Formose / “With BEAR MY SOUL and PIETRA, it’s the non-verbal, collective language that matters” – Joséphine Derobe

Claudia Montes

Immersive filmmaker Joséphine Derobe presented BEAR MY SOUL, her project inspired by the dream world of the animist peoples of the Far North, at the Kaohsiung Film Festival 2024 in Taiwan. She also unveiled the prototype of her new project PIETRA, winner of the Villa Formose “prototype” 2024 residency, an immersive experience co-written with Côme […]

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