Ysé Sorel

Ysé Sorel writes and makes films.

After studying philosophy and performing arts, she turned to cinema. She has made two self-produced films: in 2018, a feature-length docu-drama set in Greece, Nostos Algos (FIFIB, Contrebandes competition; Prix Jeunes Talents at the Entrevues Festival in Belfort), and La Chambre double in 2021, a medium-length drama with Louise Chevillotte and Pia Lagrange (post-production assistance from the CNC; Arte Kino 2023 selection). Homo Sacer, co-produced with Le Fresnoy and La Luna, completed in 2023, is her first short film.

She is also a researcher and Phd candidate in philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure and in research-creation (cinema) at the Université Paris-8, under the supervision of Dork Zabunyan and Marc Crépon. Her work focuses on how the catastrophe can be thought via images, particularly environmental disaster, and its social and psychic resonances. She is also interested in the tensions between current representations of disaster and its intrinsic unrepresentability.

She is a regular contributor to Médiapart's cultural program L'Esprit critique. Her texts have been published in magazines such as Habitante, Marge(s), Trafic, Mouvement, :arts publics:, Polygone, AOC...