-With this victory, you have achieved an important milestone and have become an authoritative voice in international independent cinema. What are your next projects?

I am obviously honoured to have my work recognized by the TriBeCa Film Critics Circle Awards this year. It is always gratifying to have informed persons in your chosen field acknowledge that they find your work worthy of celebrating. However, I must admit to a certain reserve concerning your very complimentary categorization of me as an authoritative voice in international independent cinema. I simply strive to create work that is appreciated as being relevant in some way to the contemporary
world in which we live. From this perspective, my experimental video work NOISE is an important work for me, not only because it deals with a topic that I personally consider relevant – the potentially harmful messaging noise created by billions of posts created daily worldwide on social media platforms – but also because it is the introductory element in a larger interactive multimedia project that involves interviews with persons around the world expressing their frustrations and preoccupations with both interpersonal as well as regional, national and international social situations.
The project began to take shape in 2025. It involved my identification of artists in a variety of countries around the world capable of conducting the interviews I designed in each country. These interviews would serve as the data I required to build an interactive installation illustrating messaging noise as a problematic international phenomenon. By early 2025 I had already gathered the data I required from 4 countries (a total of 20 interviews) thanks to the collaboration of four very talented artists: Joan Logue (USA), Hervé Nisic (France) Ana Carolina von Hertwig (Canada) and Flávia Baxhix (Brazil).
However, I wanted both the Asian and African continents involved in this first edition of the project and I am currently seeking to identify artists from these two regions interested in taking part in the project. In the meantime, the technical structure of the multi-projection, multi-media installation has been finalized including the interactive portion involving the possibility for the public to add their frustrations in real time to the mix of audio-visual commentaries of the participants from around the world. The film NOISE serves as the introduction to the main room of this interactive installation. One last note: this year marks the 50th anniversary of my work as an artist in the fields of analogue photography, musical composition and new media creation in the areas of photography, graphic art and video. It seemed to me only fitting that I mark this event with a project. This month I have
completed two comprehensive 3D simulations of my work: one dealing with my figurative work in the fields of photography, music, new media and video art; the other dealing with my abstract works that have had such a profound influence on my figurative works over the years. These simulations can be visualized in a retrospective dossier using the following link: https://bit.ly/42ASphd

-Describe yourself with three adjectives that best reflect your vision of the world.

Ambiguous / Uncertain / Doubtful

Although these three adjectives might, at first glance, seem to reflect a rather pessimistic vision, that is not my intention. I believe that the world suffers from a profound lack of what I refer to as informed understanding, that is, the form of understanding that results from in-depth investigations of issues coupled with the ability to observe and analyze the results of such investigations from multiple cultural and socio-economic perspectives. A quote from the Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus comes to mind: “First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.” With informed understanding, situations and events automatically appear less “black and white” or” right or wrong” and we appreciate the inherent ambiguity in them creating what I feel is a potentially
helpful dose of uncertainty and doubt about our initial “home grown” way of looking at them. This, for me, is the first essential step to finding solutions that involve relevant compromise, that all important step in affirming a belief that two competing visions can both be partially accurate and partially inaccurate depending on context and perspective. My work of the past twenty years has
been largely devoted to suggesting the inherent ambiguity and uncertainty of situations that we observe and the inevitable doubts generated by such qualities. This social perspective is akin to the conclusions of quantum mechanics which state that it is our
observations themselves that shape the reality we observe and that therefore our universe doesn’t possess definitive, objective properties that are independent of the observer.

-WILD FILMMAKER is, above all, a space for freedom of thought and sharing. Who would you most like to find yourself in front of, and what would you say to them? You may include figures from the present or the past, from Julius Caesar to Marilyn Monroe, just to give an example.

I couldn’t possibly name just one person. I can think of many.

• I would love to sit down with 18th century ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro and say “Thank you for showing me that flat field perspective and texture-free faces can produce such timeless universality”.
• I would love to sit down together with Marcel Duchamp and John Cage and say “Thank you for opening up my mind”
• I would love to sit down with photographer / video artist William Wegman and say “Thank you for showing me that a lighter, often humorous perspective on a topic can be as powerful as a purely intellectual approach to the same subject matter.”
• I would love to once again have the opportunity to sit down in a Paris café today with my dear friend video artist Joan Logue and say “Thank you for showing me the incredible power of video portraiture and for your profound kindness and generosity.” With a bit of luck, perhaps this year it will be possible. I could go on, but I think you get the picture. I feel deeply indebted to so many remarkable human beings who have consciously or unconsciously marked my journey through life, expanding my horizons and providing the inspiration and stimulation necessary to making my journey a productive
  one – an ever-present challenge requiring relentless dedication and focus.

-Through the WILD FILMMAKER Community, we have succeeded in bringing independent filmmakers under the same spotlight as mainstream industrial cinema. How do you evaluate our work and activities?

I find the work of Wild Filmmaker extremely important to the health and well-being of the independent cinema universe and the artists working in it today – not only because it heightens awareness of the importance of independent cinema as a relevant vector of artistic expression, but also because it has demonstrated that it cares about the artists themselves by offering a wide variety of festival opportunities worldwide to artists of different sensibilities and priorities as well as offering awards that cover a broad spectrum of areas and expertise (both technical and aesthetic) that more accurately represents the preoccupations of artists working in the field today. Simply put, “Bravo.”