Innovative Curatorial Projects – Paris / SingaporeValérie Pavia
*1970, Montpellier, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Filmmaker and video artist Valérie Pavia has a Degree in Communications, Art, and Performance Art from Bordeaux, 1992 and Masters in Law, Montpellier, 1991.
Valérie's work has been selected at a number of international film festivals including Cannes (2000) as part of the En Avant program. Her work has received a number of awards including the First Prize Award at the documentary film festival of Gentilly (2003) ; the Jury Award at the Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement in Geneva (2003); special mention at the Retina Festival in Hungary (2003) ; Second Prize at the Novossibirsk (Russia) International Documentary Film Festival (2003) ; First Prize at Vidéoformes Clermont-Ferrand, France (2000) ; First Prize Split Film Festival, Croatia (1999).
In 2001 she received a grant from Afaa and Mairie of Paris to make the film Le Rêve de l'Ours (Dream of the Bear) in Moscow.
Valérie Pavia / Valérie Pavia / France / 2005 / 100' / 4:3
Valérie Pavia, the most Russian of French video artists, has for several years now occupied a special place in the world of video art. In a daily dream state, and in order to better accommodate the leftovers of our civilization, she collects first hand accounts by letting her lens float over events. In search of life's fly-by-night urges that throb within beings, Valérie Pavia is not a moralist: evaporated at a protective distance, but loaded with a learned dosage of naivity and malice, she ascertains with impunity. She aims just right.