I am a master student writing an essay in the fields of art / visual anthropology / new medias. I'm currently working on memory and landscape as a new direction taken by artists and documentary filmmakers to deal with crimes against humanity.

I have a passion for cinema and anthropology.

I spend most of my free time in cinemas. With friends, I often go to concerts and bars. I also love cooking. On holidays, I like hitchhiking, trekking, camping, and experiment all kinds of travellings. To me, travelling is a very specific experience -almost political. It's indeed a new way to interact with peoples, with money, and a new way to feel and live the time and the elements (rain, sun, wind). In Japan I travelled for two months doing hitchhiking and wild camping, and it was a bit like an ascetic life experience, and at the same time a way to overcome mass tourism.

Whether traveling or sedentary, I enjoy spending time with people, I like to discover alternative, creative places, and places that struggle to offer a bold vision of art or life.

I can also appreciate a simple walk.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I guess, as everyone here, I understood it was an easy way to meet locals and then to have an unique experience of the country. Indeed, more than the beautiful sights, my main motivation in a country is its people.

Interests

I like to drag myself in random streets and outside the beaten path, I like to meet people, discuss personal experiences, ideas, arts and politics. Listening is key.

• arts
• human rights
• politics
• live music
• anthropology
• gender studies
• philosophy
• cinema
• anti-racism
• drinking with friends
• anti-consumerism

Music, Movies, and Books

live music and other performances

jazz, punk, experimental, shoegaze, «indie» rock, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Steve Reich, Yann Tomita, Alva Noto, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Joe Hisaishi, Christian Fennesz, David Bowie, Serguei Rachmaninov, Erik Satie, Ichiko Aoba, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Georges Brassens, Pedro Soler, Tinariwen, Baaba Maal, Sainkho Namtchylak ...
endless list

Modern cinemas mostly ... Jim Jarmusch, Takeshi Kitano, Andreï Tarkovski, Claire Denis, Lee Chang-dong, Hong Sangsoo, Wang Bing, , Sion Sono, Shohei Imamura, , Jia Zhangke, Tsai Ming-liang, Edward Yang, Jean Rouch, Joris Ivens, Johan Van der Keuken, Chris Marker, Emir Kusturica, Aparna Sen, Alexeï Guerman, Stéphane Breton, Aki Kaurismaki, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Eric Rohmer, Agnès Varda, Jean-Charles Fitoussi, etc...

But also some older and more «classical» stuffs like Akira Kurosawa, Sergueï Paradjanov, Yasujiro Ozu, Ernst Lubitsch, German expressionism, Eisenstein, ...

Essays (cinema, anthropology, global history, philosophy, psychology), and some writers like Joseph Kessel, Henri Michaux, Jack Kerouac, Georges Bataille, Dostoïevski, Michel Leiris...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Finish my teenage years "on-the-road" in Europe and Asia.

Being a student in Toulouse, doing theater, and having a large circle of friends, from different majors and countries, to dream and party with.

A trekk of 11 days in France.

A trip in moped from Sète (south of France) to Netherlands at 40km/h during 10 days.

Doing hitchhiking, wild camping all these years.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am eager to learn anything. And I think I can learn from anyone. I can listen and I am curious.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can wash dishes, I can cook for you, I can teach you french, I can take care of your kids... I can help you with anything if you need, just ask!

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Belgium, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Morocco, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France