Émilie Jouvet
Biography
Émilie Jouvet is a film director and photographer. She’s been exploring the European queer scene for over 15 years, her photographic work encompassing intimate portraits and subversive mise-en-scène. In 2005 she made her first French, queer porn, lesbian and transgender feature film: One Night Stand. In 2009 she created an evanescent group of performers, for a unique European tour, with the intention of shooting her second feature film: Too Much Pussy! Feminist Sluts in the Queer X Show. A feminist, sex-positive documentary road-movie, released in cinemas across Europe in 2011. As a film maker, she partakes in numerous Film Festivals (LGBT, feminist, porn…), showing both her feature films and the many short films she directs.
Known For & Full Filmography2 Titles
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Girlfriend
Three Parisian women discover that their lives are delicately interconnected to a mysterious fourth woman, who remains tantalizingly out of reach.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Herself
Aria, a film about queer parents, identity and family constructions. It is through a series of portraits, of people leaning their faces over her belly that the artist proposes a diversity of stories and reflections on motherhood, parenthood, the desire or not to have a child, descent, and childhood. Entirely shot using smartphones, the film proposes an intimate journey, told via sensitive, fun or moving words, a contemporary family album.