Django Burdeau is a visual artist working in the fields of installation art and non-fiction cinema. Of multicultural origins, his worldview has always been shaped by the transnational condition fostered by his biography. From his childhood in Puglia to his adulthood in Paris, from his roots in the new world to those in the old continent, his life has been defined by the push and pull of continents, places, and homes.
His work explores the material world as a container of what has been, and investigates how its constant transformation influences our inner landscapes. Through a rigorous cinematographic methodology, he seeks to make the invisible visible: the presences that linger, the stories sedimented in places, the temporalities that overlap – favoring the experiential over the narrative, and the poetic over the didactic.
In 2019, he participated in an intensive cinematography workshop led by Beppe Lanci and organized by the CSC in Rome. After pursuing seemingly divergent paths – including long-distance cycling, lutherie, and olive cultivation – he returned to visual language, working as co–director of photography and co-writer of the feature documentary As Leaves Turned Brown (with Caleb Burdeau), supported by the Apulia Film Fund, and as co-director of the documentary short Surviving a Demolition (with Pauline Blanchet) – both to be released in 2026.
In October 2024, he took part in the Nouveau Grand Tour 24, organized by the Institut Français in Italy, during which he developed the video installation SQUARCI (Dentro la Terra – Fuori la Terra). In 2025, he received a Culture Moves Europe grant for the installation project Terra di Cinghiali, which he later presented at Artinvita Festival in October 2025. From Terra di Cinghiali he also developed a short film titled At the Still Point of the Turning World, scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2026.
His works have been presented at Short n’Sweet, DOK Leipzig, the New Visions Market at Ji.hlava IDFF, and in other international contexts.
He currently lives and works in Paris, where he continues to develop his artistic projects.
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