Sébastien Demeffe

Sebastien Demeffe was born in Liège in 1981 and graduated in audiovisual techniques in Brussels (INRACI), 2003. First attracted by sound, then editing, his interest in filmmaking started with his final school project “Caméra Glacée” co-directed with Nicolas de Seny. In the same period, he co-directed a short documentary project with Gabriel Vanderpas about the black tie in Spain called “Turrón de Chapapote” [Selected at the international film festival in Aubagne in 2003 and the environmental film festival in Torino en 2004] After his studies, he settled in Spain where he returned to his first passion, sound. Attending the fine art academy of Valencia, he met Peter Beyer. Together they directed an experimental film called “Sonido con Carne,” which consists of long travelling shot in stereoscopic 3D through the allies of a super market. [Selected at « grande filiale » festival in Speyer – Germany 2004 and at the 25fps festival in Zagreb] He returned to Belgium in 2004 with an experimental sound project based on home made looped audio tapes : “Vuelta Magnética,” which he sometimes performed in collaboration with Peter Beyer. [ « grande filiale » festival in Speyer 2004 / « Idiolabo » festival Liége, Brussels et Anvers / Presented at the BK Braunschwieg art school / « les Zurbaines » festival in Liége / Exposition Art-Liège at « Pot-au-Lait » / Bains connectives in Bruxelles / « Boutik rock » festival at the Botanique in Brussels (janvier 2005) / Festival experyment in Sbaszyn, Poland (juillet 2005)] He joins Atelier Graphoui in April 2005 as a part-time video editor and he settles in Brussels where he finds the infrastructures and the possibilities to set up new film projects like “Hors Jeu,” a collective audiovisual experience co-directed with Gilles Ivan Frankignoul and Sofia Betz (to be completed by summer 2009), and finally “Riding Along” filmed in September 2006 and finished in March 2009.