Director's Works
Miira, VOCÊ Sarah Makharine
After ten years' experience in audiovisual production as production coordinator and artistic director at Iconoclast and then Bandits Production, Sarah Makharine made a career change and applied to the Kourtrajmé school competition, which she entered in the Art & Image section under JR's guidance in 2020-2021.
Her work combines the use of silver and digital media, particularly compacts, to get as close as possible to her subject: people. She deconstructs prejudice and the sexualization of bodies by going out to meet anonymous men and women, isolated and invisible in society. She captures their bodies, their gazes and their voices, which she confronts to the public eye through installations.
With PAPA 2020, she questions the intersection of genders. With LE MIKVE (another study project), she questions the place of women in religion. Passionate about her work, she is also engaged in other research projects on the place of women within patriarchal communities. With the photographic series FROM RAMALLAH TO THE EIFFEL TOWER, she exposes the liberation of Palestinian women's bodies through sport. The TURKISH WOMEN series, meanwhile, takes a cross-generational look at Turkish women. She also explores the themes of gender and prostitution with her film l'ETE INDIEN, which looks at the aesthetics of bodies in the gay milieu. Or with TEA TIME, a photographic series on transgender prostitutes in the Bois de Boulogne.
Sarah quickly made a name for herself with exhibitions, cartes blanches and collaborations with renowned institutions such as Le 104, La Villa Noailles, Parcours Saint-Germain, Fondation Chanel - le 19 M and Galleria Continua. Her work is also sorted for private collectors and published in various magazines. She created the poster and set photos for the film AFTER SUN, which won awards at the Cannes and Deauville Film Festivals. At the same time, Sarah passes on her passion to young people by leading photography workshops at the Villa Noailles.
Passionate about cinema, Sarah Makharine is also a director. She has created films for the Électro Street collective, and for the Guerrisol and Petite Friture brands. And more recently, she directed Barbara Pravi's video for her song Lève toi, a feminist manifesto calling for total equality between the sexes.
