Sylvain George

Sylvain George

57 (1968-01-01)
Vaulx en Velin, France

Sylvain George (b. 1968) is a French writer and documentary filmmaker. A one time social worker and philosophy student, George soon turned to filmmaking inspired by the social critic Walter Benjamin, concerned especially with immigration and contemporary politics in France.

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Vers Madrid! (The Burning Bright) 2012 (5.1)

This film is a newsreel, which presents some views, scenes and mo-ments of the class struggle in Madrid. The “Movimiento 15-M” is the first major “movement” in the beginning of the 21st century. A deep movement, trans-border and trans-historical which reactivates and works ideas and concepts that were long thought to be forgotten: demos, logos, revolution ...
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Paris is a Moveable Feast - A Film in 18 Waves 2017 (5.2)

Sylvain George crosses Paris in 2015 and 2016 with an “unaccompanied foreign minor”, as the official term has it. This splendid whirlwind in black-and-white mixes the details of iconic monuments – an equestrian statue, the obelisk or the big wheel – with life in the streets.
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May They Rest in Revolt (Figures of War) 2011 (7.5)

Ode, in black and white, to immigrants, from Calais, from elsewhere.
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A fascinating and colorful look at the ways more than 500 million people adjust to life in the shadow of essential, yet potentially deadly, volcanoes.