Victor Zébo

Movies

Best Secret Place
Director of Photography
Within my walls, many people are taking a break. Waiting to live.
Orlando, My Political Biography
Director of Photography
Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando” tells the story of a young man who grows up to become a 36-year-old woman. Almost a century after its publication, Paul B. Preciado speaks to Virginia Woolf to tell her that her fictional character has become a reality. The transition of Orlando’s body now lies at the root of all non-binary bodies and there are Orlandos all over the world. Through the authentic voices of other young bodies undergoing metamorphosis, Preciado retraces the stages of his personal transformation through a poetic journey in which life, writing, theory and image merge freely in the search for truth. Every Orlando, he says, is a transgender person who is risking his, her or their life on a daily basis as they find themselves forced to confront government laws, history and psychiatry, as well as traditional notions of the family and the power of multinational pharmaceutical companies.
Mehret va à l'est
Director of Photography
Lève tes morts
Director of Photography
In 1752 in Reunion Island, Soa, a former Malagasy slave, believes she has found a tunnel that will lead her back to Madagascar. When her village of maroons falls under the threat of slave hunters, Soa faces an inescapable choice: stay with her loved ones or flee to finally return home.
Herman@s (SiblingX)
Cinematography
One night in October 2011, a mysterious dream gives birth to Cuco, a transgender latex pirate.
Nina and the Robots
Director of Photography
The breath of the machine fills the air, where the singing can flow. Nina stands in front of the wiggling robot. The soft bodies measure up themselves, sometimes harmonize. The breaths dilate the organs, which swell and fold; transmute the synthetic movement into vital impetus and the vulva into mouth, which inflates until it spreads.
Voin
Director of Photography
After twenty years away in western Europe, Voin goes back to Bulgaria, his home country. While rediscovering places where he grew up, a mental journey is taking shape through time.
Rose Minitel
Director of Photography
At the beginning of the 80's, Brocatella sings the praises of telematics to her friend Nino, who doesn't know what is it. Yet, her job for Minitel Rose (erotic chat) bores her and doesn't let her forget her ex, Electra. But maybe love is just a click away…
JA
Director of Photography
Jacob, an elderly man living in a luxurious villa near Geneva called Rosebud, has just changed his name for the third time and become a Swiss citizen. His granddaughter comes to visit to make a portrait of him. As she searches for a way to bring his story to life, Jacob abandons the project…
Still Waiting
Director of Photography
Every day, Anton waits for the night to come. Every night, Alexandre comes and visits him. But this situation can't last, the living and the dead are not meant to meet.
Stand-by Office
Director of Photography
Something Is Burning
Director of Photography
Margot has memories, black ideas that haunt her and lead her to the mountains of her childhood, to her brother Adrien. In the cold of winter, the ghost of a missing brother reappears.
Los diablos azules
Director of Photography
More than 3,000 miners of Chile’s La Pampa were shot down by the national army during a demonstration in Iquique, a massacre told in Luis Advis’s 1969 cantata Santa María de Iquique. In The Blue Devils, Charlotte Bayer-Broc wanders through one of the ghost mining towns—a remote outpost in the Atacama Desert—interpreting Advis’s lament across eerily abandoned landscapes and industrial vistas. Bayer-Broc upends cinematic convention in a beguiling adaptation that is entirely her own; this medium-length musical is at once personal and political, reverent and burlesque.
Trinkets and Dark Thoughts
Director of Photography
On a Sunday morning, a group of young revelers enter a large, vacated apartment. Tired drag queens mix with debauched grannies, drunken vagrants and shy virgins over the course of the morning.
Change of Scenery
Sound
An 87-year-old man oversees the interior renovations of his luxurious property. Satisfied with his new house, he invites various people to come over to visit. This film is the second part of a trilogy that offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a highly unusual character.
Change of Scenery
Director of Photography
An 87-year-old man oversees the interior renovations of his luxurious property. Satisfied with his new house, he invites various people to come over to visit. This film is the second part of a trilogy that offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a highly unusual character.
Calamity Who?
Director of Photography
Documentary about a woman who claims to be Calamity Jane's daughter.
26
Cinematography
As the song says: "I'm 26 years old but only 4 useful. I don't understand anything". 8 people read aloud private texts (sms, letters, emails) written or received by Daphné Hérétakis in the months leading up to her 26th birthday. The film proposes to take these texts out of the realm of intimacy and put them back into the public space and the collective nature of the film. The result is a romantic and absurd cadavre exquis, which addresses slightly depressed sensibilities.