Hélène Frappat
Writer and philosopher

Hélène Frappat, a trained philosopher and writer, is the author of nine novels, published by Éditions Allia and Actes Sud, including "Sous réserve" (2004), "Par effraction" (2009, Prix Wepler, Special Mention), "Inverno" (2009), "Lady Hunt" (2013), "Le dernier fleuve" (2019), "Le Mont Fuji n'existe pas" (2021), and "Trois femmes disparaissent" (2023).
She has also published numerous essays on cinema, including "Secret compris" (2001) and "Roberto Rossellini" (2007), published by Éditions des Cahiers Cinéma Jacques Rivette, and "le nouveau monstre" by Séguier Tony Servillo.
On France Culture, she produced the monthly film magazine Rien à voir from 2004 to 2009, as well as numerous documentaries. As a translator from English and Italian, she has translated Theodor Adorno's "Studies on the Authoritarian Personality" (Allia, 2006), and novels by Laura Lippman and Ann Patchett (Actes Sud).
Her latest book, the philosophical essay "Le Gaslighting ou l'art de faire taire les femmes", has been acclaimed by the press and translated into Italian and Spanish. For Ircam Circus, she wrote the "Seven Tales from the Fountain", a story to listen to as you stroll around the Stravinsky Fountain.

Para One
Artist

Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, aka Para One, is a multi-faceted artist. After starting out as a producer, first of hip hop and then of electronic music, Para One quickly broke free with his solo albums "Épiphanie", "Passion" and "Club". He has also produced numerous artists, including Birdy Nam Nam and Meryem Aboulouafa. He has also composed for director Céline Sciamma, whose film "Portrait de la jeune fille en feu" won Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for eleven César awards in 2020.
He is also director and producer of numerous short films. His latest album "SPECTRE: Machines of Loving Grace" (out May 2021) also serves as the soundtrack to his first feature film, "Sanity, Madness & the Family" (out late 2021). Para One traveled for several years, collaborating with Japanese, Indonesian, Bulgarian and French musicians to write, record and manufacture - in the truest sense of the word - these "Machines of Loving Grace".

Nathalie Pivain
Actress and director

Since graduating from the Théâtre National de Bretagne, Nathalie Pivain has worked as an actress with Pascal Kirsch, Anne-Laure Liégeois, Thierry Bedard, Sandrine Poget and Sébastien Derrey, and has directed contemporary authors such as Nelly Arcan, Jon Fosse, Spiro Scimone, Nicoleta Esinencu and W. G. Sebald with Compagnie des Lucioles and Fractal Théâtre. She recently worked with Sébastien Derrey on debbie tucker green's "mauvaise" at the MC93, Théâtre de Gennevilliers and Théâtre National de Strasbourg.
She is currently working with Revue Eclair, and as an actress with Agathe Paysant on Robert Walser's "Blanche Neige" at Studio Théâtre de Vitry and Théâtre de la Commune.

Johannes Regnier
Computer music director

Johannes Regnier is a director of computer music at Ircam, a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts, and a researcher in acoustics at the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute in Berlin. Trained as a sound engineer, he specialized in computer music with Miller Puckette at the University of California, San Diego.
His research focuses on spatial sound processing and physical modeling synthesis. He regularly collaborates with artists, sound designers and composers on musical projects and sound installations.