The International Art Books and Films Festival (in French, Festival International du Livre d'Art et du Film) or FILAF, is an international festival about art books and films which takes place annually in Perpignan (South of France) since 2011. Its goal is to promote and award the best books and films about art produced each year in the world.
History and goals
Noting the world absence of a real event only focused on art books, and similarly on the field of art films, the Cogito Organization and its president Sébastien Planas created the International Artbooks and Films Festival in Perpignan. The first edition took place in June 2011
The aim of the festival is to present to the general public a selection of the best books and films on art published or produced during the past year on an international scale. Authors, editors, directors, producers and selected artists are invited to Perpignan to present their work. A week of conferences, screenings, readings, signatures, workshops for children, professional round tables, thematic evenings, allows the world of art to meet and present its most important productions.
The FILAF festival relies on a scientific professional committee, recognized in each of their disciplines, responsible for selection throughout the year. It also mobilizes an annually renewed jury which, at the end of the festival, awards the Gold FILAF, the Silver FILAF and the Special Jury Prize (categories "book" and « film »).
In 2016, the FILAF festival created a new prize in collaboration with French Art Fair Galeristes, to reward the best art book published by an art gallery.
Scientific committee
From 2011 to 2016
Xavier Canonne (Director, Museum of Photography in Charleroi) Hélène Joubert (Curator, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris) Philippe Régnier (Editor-in-Chief, Daily Art) Guillaume Faroult (Louvre Museum) Pierre Jaubert (RMN Library, Louvre Museum) Florence Viguier (Director, Ingres Museum in Montauban) Eberhard Hinkel (Distributor, Interart, Paris) Hervé Lœvenbruck (Galerie Lœvenbruck, Paris) Chantal Herrmann (Editor-in-Chief, Paris Mômes) André Delpuech (Director Museum of Man, Paris) Bernard Benoliel (Cinémathèque française) Laurence Des Cars (Director, Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris)
2018
Didier Brousse (Founder and Director Galerie Camera Obscura) Didier Ottinger (Director Centre Pompidou Paris) Alexandre Curnier (Director Noto Magazine) Samuel Hoppe (Director Volume artbook shop Paris) Pierre Samoyault (Director Interart Paris) Stéphane Corréard (Director at the Parisian art fair Galeristes) Alba Zamolo (Director youth artbook shop in the Louvre Museum Paris) Patricia Falguières (Teacher at EHESS)
2019
Alba Zamolo (Director youth Artbooks shop in the Louvre Museum, Paris) Matthieu Conquet (Radio journalist at France Culture) Hélène Joubert (Curator, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris) Jean-Michel Frodon (Historian, critic, and cinema journalist) Samuel Hoppe (Director at the Volume library, Paris) Jean-Hubert Martin (Curator and former director of the Centre Pompidou Paris and Kunsthalle in Bern)
2020
Alba Zamolo (Director youth Artbooks shop in the Louvre Museum, Paris) Matthieu Conquet (Radio journalist at France Culture) Hélène Joubert (Curator, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris) Jean-Michel Frodon (Historian, critic, and cinema journalist) Samuel Hoppe (Director at the Volume library, Paris) Stéphane Corréard (Director of the Parisian art fair Galeristes) Guillaume Kientz (Director of the Hispanic Society Museum, New-York) Sébastien Gokalp (Director at the Musée de l'histoire de l'immigration)
Juries 2012 Catherine Millet, editor-in-chief of the art review art press and Honorary President of the jury Fabrice Hergott, director at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Guillaume Houzé, sponsorship director in Galeries Lafayette Group Xavier Cannone, director at Photography Museum in Charleroi Pierre Thoretton, filmmaker.
2013 Robert Storr, art critic and Honorary President of the jury Jean-Paul Boucheny, filmmaker and producer Jennifer Flay, director of the Fiac (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, Paris) Line Ouellet, director at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec Éric de Chassey, director at the French Academy in Rome Laurent Le Bon, director at the Picaso Museum in Paris Marta Gili, director at Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.
2014 Stéphane Corréard, director of the Contemporary art fair in Montrouge and Jury President Laure Flammarion, filmmaker Laurent Brancowitz, musician in the band Phoenix and collector Simon Baker, photography curator at the Tate Modern in London Luciano Rigolini, producer at Arte Patricia Falguières, art historian and president of the Centre national des arts plastiques.
2015 Albert Serra, Catalan filmmaker and Jury President Aurélien Bellanger, author, Prix de Flore 2014 Dominique Païni, art critic and curator Anne Tronche, art critic Nazanin Pouyandeh, artist.
2016 > Book jury
Jean-Hubert Martin, curator and Jury President Chiara Parisi, director of the cultural action at Monnaie de Paris Olivier Gabet, director at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris Marco Velardi, editor-in-chief of the art and design review Apartamento.
> Film jury
Charles de Meaux, filmmaker, producer, co-founder at Ana Sanders Films and Jury President Catherine Derosier-Pouchous, producer for the film productions in Musée du Louvre, Paris Jean-Pierre Devillers, filmmaker Matthieu Copeland, curator and co-founder at Ana Sanders Films
2017
> Book jury
Nicolas Bourriaud, Director of the Montpellier Contemporain (MoCo) and president of the jury Florence Loewy, eponym gallery and library in Paris Grégoire Robinne, Fondator of Dilecta's editions Nicolas Daubanes, artist
>Film jury
Clément Cogitore, movie director and president of the jury Colette Barbier, Directress of the Ricard business foundation Vicenç Altaió (ca), actor Thomas Levy-Lasne, painter, author, actor and scenarist
2018
>Book jury
Bernard Marcadé, art critic and expository commissioner Léa Bismuth, art critic and expository commissioner Eric Mangion, director of the Art Center of the Arson Villa in Nice (Côte d'Azur) Arnaud Labelle-Rojaux, author and artist
>Film jury
Cristian Mungiu, film director, scenarist, producer and president of the jury Virginie Jacquet, Directress of the gallery and the librairie du Jour agnès b Eduard Escoffet, poet Valérie Mréjen, novelist, videographer and visual artist 2019
>Book jury
Marc Olivier Wahler (Director Museum, exhibition curator, and art critic) Thomas Clerc (Writer, columnist and performer) Alicia Kopf (Graduated in art and literature, multimedia artist and writer) Anne-Sarah Bénichou (Director of the eponymous gallery) Christoph Doswald (Publicist, curator, and university lecture)
>Film jury
Joaquim Sapinho (movie director, producer, and artist) Morgane Tschiember (Director of the Calouste-Gulbenkian Museum) Penelope Curtis (director of the Calouste-Gulbenkian Museum) Abdelkader Benchamma (contemporary artist)
2020
>Book jury
Bertrand Belin (Guitarist, singer, and writer) Frank Perrin (Philosopher, critic, review and magazines creator, photographer of post-capitalism) Cécile Debray (Director of the Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris)
>Film jury
Lucie Rico (Director, scriptwriter, and novelist) Leopold Rabus (painter) Neil Beloufa (artist and movie director)
Guests of Honour
2012: Matali Crasset, Yves Michaud, Ferran Adrià, Werner Hoffman 2013: Nathalie Heinich, Miquel Barceló 2014: Joan Roca i Fontané 2015: Philippe Djian 2016: Michel Houellebecq, Matali Crasset, Julien Carreyn, Enrique Vila-Matas, Gérard Garouste 2018: Gilles Barbier, Nicolas Godin, Luke Rhinehart 2019: Yannick Haenel, Jacqueline Caux, Michael Blackwood, Fabrice Hyber, Raymond Pettibon, Collection Phares 2020: Bêka & Lemoine, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Joan Fontcuberta, Phoenix, Olivier Assayas
Honor Price
2011 : Jean-Paul Boucheny 2012 : Adrian Maben 2013 : Juergen Teller 2014 : Daniel Buren, André S. Labarthe, Roman Signer 2015 : Sophie Calle, Agnès Varda, Alain Fleischer 2016: Bertrand Lavier, Kenneth Goldsmith 2017 : Jef Cornelis, Annette Messager, Jean-Michel Alberola, Jean-Yves Jouannais 2018 : Michel Auder, Pere Portabella, Alain Jaubert, Bruno Monsaingeon 2019: Raymond Pettibon, Aube Breton-Elléouët / Collections Phares, Jacqueline Caux, Michael Blackwood 2020: Bêka & Lemoine, Joan Fontcuberta, Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Expositions
2014 : Leopold Rabus - Till Rabus - Chad Moore - Arnaud Pyvka. Exposition collective, FILAF Galery, Perpignan 2014 : Abdelkader Benchamma, Random, FILAF Galery, Perpignan 2015 : Pascal Ferro, FILAF Galery, Perpignan 2015 : Carlos Barrantes, FILAF Galery, Perpignan 2015 / 2016 : Rodore, FILAF Galery, Perpignan 2016 : Michel Houellebecq, Before Landing, Tiers-Ordre Chapel, Perpignan 2016 : Carine Brancowitz - Faustine Cornette de Saint Cyr. Exposition collective, Galerie du FILAF, Perpignan 2016 / 2017 : Cédric Torne, FILAF Galery, Perpignan 2017 : David Lynch, Works on Paper, Tiers-Ordre Chapel, Perpignan 2017 : Jean-Michel Alberola, Scénarios, FILAF Galery, Perpignan 2017 / 2018 : Nicolas Daubanes, Sign of the Times, FILAF Galery, Perpignan 2018 : Pierre et Gilles, Le Génie du Christianisme, Minimes Convent, Perpignan 2018 : Alexandre Leger, Oeuvres Récentes, FILAF Galery, Perpignan 2019 : ALBEROlaBELLEROJOUX, Couvent des Minimes, Perpignan / Gilles Barbier, FILAF gallery, Perpignan 2020 : Till Rabus, Natures Mortes Acrobatiques, FILAF Galery, Perpignan / Toma Dutter, Alexis Gallissaires, Mathieu Legrand, Clara Claus, Max Wyse, Julien Laporte, Charles-Henry Sommelette, Quentin Spohn and others, Decameron, Centro Espagnol, Perpignan
Awards
2011 Books Best African artbook : African Lace, a history of trade, creativity and fashion in Nigeria by Nath Mayo Adediran and Barbara Plankensteiner, Snoeck, Austria, 2010 Best architecture book : CCCP - Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed by Frédéric Chaubin, Taschen, Germany / France, 2011 Best modern art book : Gérard Gasiorowski - Recommencer, commencer de nouveau la peinture by Thomas West, Frédéric Bonnet, Éric Mangion, Laurent Manœuvre and Erik Verhagen, Hajte Cantz, France / Germany, 2010 Best contemporary art book : Monographie de Bernard Dufour by Fabrice Hergott, de la Différence, France, 2010 Best fine art book : Jacob Van Loo, 1614-1670 by David Mandrella, Arthena, France, 2011 Best book about an art collection : Art and Activism : Projects of John and Dominique de Menil by Laureen Schipsi and Josef Helfenstein, Laureen Schipsi & Josef Helfenstein / The Menil Collection, USA, 2010 Best artbook about the 19th Century : Jean-Léon Gerôme by Laurence des Cars, Édouard Papet and Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Skira / Flammarion, USA / France, 2010 Best photography book : Fénautrigues by Jean-Luc Moulène and Marc Touitou, La Table Ronde, France, 2010 Best book about cinema : Opération Dragon de Robert Clouse by Bernard Benoliel, Yellow Now, Belgium, 2010 Best design book : Campana Brothers, Complete Works (So Far) by Darrin Alfred, Deyan Sudjic, Li Edelkoort, Stephan Hamel and Cathy Lang Hö, Rizzoli / Albion, USA, 2010 Best artbook for youth : Animaux à mimer by Alexandre Rodtchenko and Serguei Mikhaïlovitch Tretiakov, Memo, Russia / France, 2010 "Grand Prix du jury" : African Lace, a history of trade, creativity and fashion in Nigeria by Nath Mayo Adediran and Barbara Plankensteiner, Snoeck, 2010, Austria
2012 Books Golden FILAF : Scrapbook - Gilles Caron by Marianne Caron-Montely, Lienart, France, 2012 Silver FILAF : Saul Bass : A Life in Film & Design by Pat Kirkham and Jennifer Bass, Laurence King Publishing, England, 2011 Special Jury Prize : Fritz Lang au travail by Bernard Eisenschitz, Phaïdon, Austria, 2011
Films