Sun in Your Head #3
Sat, May 02
|Dissonant Works
Sun in Your Head is a bi-monthly experimental film series curated by Alex Cunningham. Each installment focuses on the works of one experimental filmmaker and features an opening performance by a local artist before the films.
Time & Location
May 02, 2026, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Dissonant Works, 2218 S Jefferson Ave, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA
About the event
Sun in Your Head: Films by Cécile Fontaine
Please join us at Dissonant Works on Saturday, May 2 for the third installment of SUN IN YOUR HEAD, featuring seven films by French collage filmmaker Cécile Fontaine.
Fontaine's films work entirely with the manipulation of found materials and the physical altering of film strips with puncturing, burning, painting, scratching, and soaking in various compounds.
Born in 1957 in south of France, Fontaine grew up in a French oversea departement named "Île de la Réunion" in the Indian Ocean and studied art both in France (1975-1979) and in Boston (1980-1986) where she started making films in 1982. Fontaine returned to France in 1986 and currently lives in Paris, teaching art fulltime in a primary school and making films.
"Cécile Fontaine works with what can be called margins, the excluded parts of cinema,, revindicating scratching, soaking, de-collage and so filmmaking passes as a primarily plastic activity, with…