Hidden passages

After studying history and cinema at the Sorbonne, Leslie Lagier went on to make short films that mix genres (fiction, experimental, documentary) and are particularly interested in places, their real or imagined history, individual or collective, and the relationships that develop with those who inhabit them. Themes such as memory, disappearance and traces, and the way these relate to the landscape, whether natural or urban, are at the heart of his work. His films are also characterized by a search for plasticity, and in particular by the staging of the image itself through the use of different types of material: photographs, archives, super 8...  Leslie's directors include Lahemaa, an experimental fiction film shot in a post Soviet town in Estonia (14', Méroé Films, 2010), Nous sommes revenus dans l'allée des marronniers, an essay that mixes footage shot at the Pantin cemetery and super-8 home movies (16', Méroé Films, 2012, Prix de qualité CNC 2013), Far East, an experimental film shot in Siberia (24', Two Many Cowboys, 2015) and Les passages secrets, a short fiction film that stages an imaginary border and evokes the “problematic” of migrants (28', Local Films, 2015), and North (48', Local Films, Prix du meilleur scénario à Brive), a documentary shot in the Yukon that explores the relationship of the inhabitants of the Far North to their territory in the context of mining activity and examines the mutations of the natural landscape engendered by this activity.