Born in Toulouse in 1993, Ekiem Barbier is an author, a filmmaker and a musician. In 2012 he directed several short films, fiction and animation, for which he composed the music. He then entered the School of Fine Arts of Montpellier. There in 2015 he joined the collective In Extremis with whom he contributed to several exhibitions. In 2017 Ekiem got his DNSEP (Master Degree in Plastic expression). The same year, he became interested in documentary and made Anent (a 42-minute documentary shot in the upper Amazon of Ecuador), and Marlowe Drive (34-minute film). He continues his video research with a particular interest in a sensitive dimension of anthropology and experimentation through a poetic and digital lens. Ekiem currently lives and works in Marseille.
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