An image.A film.A sound.A light.A voice.
Polish by birth, French by chance. Born in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell, Tomasz Namerła grew up in Poland, came to France at nineteen for a year, and never left. He lives and works in Nantes.
An author, director and photographer, he tells stories, whatever the medium: documentary or fiction, photography or stage, testimony or movement. His films air sometimes on France Télévisions, sometimes as Instagram stories; his work also inhabits heritage sites, from the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud to the Château de La Roche-Guyon.
Every project starts from real material, archives, a place, a voice, in search of what links the intimate to collective history. He finds them both inside society and at its margins, with particular attention to sound, light and silence.
“Look, listen, gather, understand what connects us. Pass it on. And bring wonder.”
Nineteen years in Poland, nineteen years in France. A return to artistic roots, to meet the people inventing Polish art today, who answer our derailing societies with art.
The artistic, human and monumental adventure of Thomas Jolly and his teams staging Shakespeare’s Henry VI and Richard III: a twenty-four-hour play.
“Deliciously telegenic.” Télérama, TTT
After a passionate relationship, Iris tries to free herself from the memories of her life with Mya. A score of romantic grief, on the border between dance, fiction and music.
“Separation, a cinematic and musical odyssey.” France 3 Pays de la Loire
In the château’s casemates, an immersive installation of voices, sound and light: the sound script of an invisible film. The work brings to life two stories from 1944, 250 metres apart. That of Erwin Rommel, field marshal of Nazi Germany, who had set up his headquarters in the château. And that of Justinien Blazy, who had the courage and humanity to save twelve Jewish children and Allied paratroopers, and was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations.
From Garry Kasparov’s defeat by Deep Blue in 1997 to our lives shot through with artificial intelligence: a show that questions our relationship to reality.
The renovation of the 19th-century joinery of the Great Refectory at the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud brought an artist, craftspeople and heritage specialists around the same table: François Rouan, Ateliers Loire in Chartres and the François Asselin company. A shared adventure to leave a trace of our time in a thousand-year-old heritage.
A four-year epic: the creation of a contemporary carillon at the Cornille Havard foundry in Villedieu-les-Poêles, for the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud. Contemporary artists encountering the heritage of bells.
Some of these photographs are available as fine art prints. Formats and editions on request.
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