Clara Lemercier Gemptel

Influenced by horror cinema, Clara Lemercier Gemptel creates various bodies in her films – stereotyped, hollow, frightening, ghostly – each of which questions, in its own way, the possibility of otherness in cinema. Through these bodies, she unravels cinematographic codes, aesthetic norms, and the power and domination struggles that shape the representation of such bodies. As she suggests, “it will be as important to think about how and to what end bodies are constructed as it will be to think about how and to what end bodies are not constructed [...]”¹. For her, creating these cinematic a...