Romain Rampillon

His work explores the relationships that people weave with their environments, on both the personal and political levels. His cinematic research often focuses on the experience of seasons, interspecies relationships and so-called natural events. He co-directed Paris, un jour de Mai with Vanya Chokrollahi in 2023, also co-directed Jusqu’où, la forêt (currently in post-production) with Feda Wardak, and is currently filming his next two projects. As a director of photography, he is interested in hybrid cinematic creations in collaboration with filmmakers and artists, questioning original frameworks that blend fiction and documentary. Alongside Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams, he shot the Afrofuturist musical Neptune Frost, which was selected for the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2021. He began his career in film as a camera assistant on films by directors including Pierre Schoeller, André Téchiné and Eric Baudelaire. He graduated from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris in 2014 and the École Normale Supérieure Louis-Lumière in 2017. He is also the co-founder of the production company Avant la Nuit.