News | April 2024

Agathe Simon has just been awarded an immersive creation fund by the CNC (French National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image) for Celestial Attraction, the video triptych in her Cosmos cycle. In July-August 2023, she has traveled to Argentina for the scouting of this cycle, with the support of the DRAC Île-de-France – French Ministry of Culture. Cosmos also includes a feature film selected for the ‘Documentary Workshop 2022’ at the Fémis (French National Institute for Professional Image and Sound). Since March 2024, this film is fiscally sponsored by Maysles Documentary Center (NYC). It is currently in development.

On March 7, she has given a performance on artificial intelligence at the Michel Journiac gallery of the Sorbonne School of Arts. Following a presentation at the XVIII International Architecture Biennale in Venice and at the ‘Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine’ in Paris as part of the Ball Theater project, the sound creation Year 1 has recently been broadcast at the Chicago Architecture Center as part of the ‘Night of Ideas 2024’, an event organized by Villa Albertine / French Institute. After being selected for the VdR–Film Market (‘Visions du Réel’ international documentary festival), the film The Travel of Felix was included in the official 2023 selection of the Bogotá Experimental Film Festival.

An associate researcher at the ACTE Institute (Arts Creations Theories Aesthetics), Simon just published the article “Diving into the unknown: digital media and the creative process in extreme environments“ in the journal #1257 of the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Last March, she spoke at a conference on the craft of sound at the Sorbonne School of the Arts. She is currently preparing the end-of-year screening of her documentary workshop and her film workshop at Sorbonne University.