Biography
Raphaël Grisey lives and works in Berlin. Grisey uses films, editorial and photographic works to assemble sounds, images, texts and narratives around politics of memory, migration, farming or architecture. Through diverse documentary and essayist forms, research, archival practices and collaborations, Grisey’s works adress neo-colonial extractivist violence and attempt to bring up decolonial forms of story telling in relation to agriculture, rural and urban forms of life (Cooperative, 2008 ; Remanescentes; A Mina dos Vagalumes, 2015; Sowing Somankidi Coura, a Generative Archive 2015– 2022 with Bouba Touré). He collaborated with Florence Lazar on the film Prvi Deo (2006), on post-war justice in former Yugoslavia.