Jonathan Pepe

Jonathan Pepe

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White Rabbit 2023

A Magician's Assistant must find her strength to save her career from failing, and prevent her life from spiralling out of control when she begins to have unwanted guests appear at her show.
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The Fireplace 2024

A pregnant woman finds herself snowed in at a rented cottage with no one for company other than a sinister voice coming from the fireplace.
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London Boys 2025

Behind the facade of the loud and intimidating motorcycles of The ‘Bangladeshi Bad Boys’ is a group of second-generation Bangladeshi men who find solace in their bikes and community around Shoreditch and Brick Lane. Co-directed by Arun Nangla and Laura Pavone, London Boys offers surprisingly vulnerable moments as it lifts a curtain on the racism faced by the Bangladeshi community in the UK, as well as the frustrations, hurt, and pain that come with it. With a loving lens of East London, the exploration of masculinity and Islamophobia is poignantly told by men facing an identity crisis at the intersection of the generational racism they’ve endured.
Jonathan Pêpe

Jonathan Pêpe

Toulouse, France

Jonathan Pêpe, born in Toulouse in 1987, was trained at the National School of Art in Bourges then at Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts. Jonathan is a polyvalent artist who works with drawings, films, installations and digital media. Jonathan’s practice investigates human’s shifting perception of the border between living and non-living creatures. Jonathan has a keen interest in developing interactive art experiences and using contemporary techniques, such as soft-robotics. His artistic projects are frequently developed in cooperation with research laboratories.

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Haruspices 2019

Haruspices borrows its title from the Etruscan divinatory art of reading the future in the entrails of animals. Whoever practiced this practice served as an interface between humans and the gods; in the same way, the artist wanted to represent the entrails of a machine.
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Bassin d'attraction 2022

The film questions the sacred relationship to objects and the different statuses conferred on them throughout their lives. Precious objects - votive offerings from the National Etruscan Museum in Villa Giulia - ornaments from churches or Roman sculptures, as well as contemporary detritus come together and evolve together in a kind of amniotic fluid. Usually inert forms have evolved into autonomous creatures: these composite beings interact, gesticulate, attract each other, react. By adopting the point of view of objects, by infusing them with a dose of desire, by giving them a semblance of soul, the artist reconsiders the border between the living and the non-living.