Biography

Benjamin is a visual artist, director, and screenwriter whose work explores the unconscious and dream worlds. Passionate about animation and the visual arts, he uses them to give form to the impulses of the imagination where reality reaches its limits. His sensitive style, often tinged with humor, shines through in his fiction projects, commercials, and music videos. Since 2008, he has distinguished himself through his versatility and the originality of his visual language.

Filmography

POOL - 17 minutes (2015)

I'll Get There - 7 minutes (2013)

Director's Note

With The Molt, I wanted to explore attachment and how love can blur the line between self and other. In a deeply connected relationship, we gradually adopt the gestures, expressions, and habits of our loved one, to the point of risking losing ourselves. This identity crisis takes on a particular dimension in a gay couple, where the Boyfriend Twins phenomenon—this almost unsettling resemblance between partners—finds an echo in the world of cinema, where actors have their own doubles fashioned in their image. The film unfolds in a fluid reality, where the everyday cracks open to reveal the strange. Inspired by David Lynch, Wim Wenders, and Truffaut's Day for Night, The Molt plays with the porous boundary between artifice and reality, spectacle and intimacy. Through a blend of dreamlike imagery, absurdity, and self-deprecation, it explores how far we are willing to go, and how far we are willing to transform ourselves, in order to be loved.