David Sebir

David Sebir is a young French filmmaker, active as both an author-director and actor. His artistic universe is defined by a distinctive and deeply personal aesthetic, shaped by a profound passion for brutalist architecture and analogue photography — two influences that directly inform the way he constructs images, frames space, and tells stories through cinema.

At the crossroads of filmmaking and photographic practice, he develops a coherent and individual visual sensibility in which texture, light, and human-built structures play a central role. His dual position as both author behind the camera and performer in front of it deepens his understanding of cinematic storytelling in all its dimensions, from writing to embodiment.

As part of the Les Gardiennes de la Mer artistic residency at Résidences Rocabella, David Sebir turns his filmmaker's and photographer's gaze toward a landscape radically different from his usual world. Far from the raw concrete and massive forms of brutalist architecture that feed his aesthetic, he finds himself facing the sea — a living, shifting material that resists being frozen — and the Mediterranean light, whose intensity and constant variation transform every moment into a potential image.

This contrast becomes the driving force of his residency: how does an eye trained in the geometric rigour of brutalism and the sensitive texture of analogue photography perceive a natural, organic territory? This creative time allows him to explore new visual and cinematic languages, to let the sea challenge his frames, and to enrich his future projects with a new visual vocabulary — one suspended between mineral permanence and perpetual movement.