In the Mediterranean, a place both fictional and real.
Where Icarus threw himself to burn his wings. Where liners, fishermen, migrants and scientists are studying the consequences of global warming on the sea bed meet.
Where signs are revealed: has our ability to measure and interpret the world not fallen into a technological excess that is burning our wings?
Patric Jean Patric grew up in Belgium, between a lyric singer mother and the working world. He studied theater (first prize at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels), then philology (at the Université Libre de Bruxelles) and finally cinema (at the INSAS, Brussels).
After short fiction films, his first documentary film, "Les enfants du Borinage - lettre à Henri Storck", was a great success at festivals and won numerous awards (including the grand prize at the IDFA festival in Amsterdam) and was broadcast by a dozen national channels.
He then shot "Traces", a docu-drama about the painter Didier Mahieu, which was selected for several festivals and won several awards.
"La Raison du plus fort" was first filmed for television (ARTE, RTBF, VRT) and then released in France after its screening at the Cannes Film Festival in the ACID selection. It won numerous awards in international festivals and was broadcast by television stations around the world (Finland, Iran, Japan...). After its theatrical release, it won the famous European CIVIS prize in Berlin.
"D'un mur l'autre, de Berlin à Ceuta" is a musical road movie that follows migrants.
"La Domination Masculine" is a feature-length documentary released in France, Belgium and Canada in November 2009, distributed by UGC. Radical, the film defends a feminist point of view but carried by a man.
He also directed three 26' portraits for ARTE's "Gens d'Europe" collection and a film for ARTE's "Les foyers de la création" collection, as well as interactive video installations: "Carcans", "On air".
