Damien de Medeiros (aka Hermentaire) is a French artist living and working between Paris and Paros. Hermentaire expresses his creativity in various art forms and disciplines. He began making a name for himself in Paris as a music composer creating original soundtracks for documentary films. Composing music within the film industry was a spring board into film making and photography. Each artistic practice is closely linked to each other and anchored in Hermentaire’s insatiable interest in acute observation of characters and story telling.
Hermentaire’s interest in this surreal world led him and his wife Alexandra Leroux, to co-direct & produce the short film Cosmos Melancolia. In 2023 Cosmos Melancholia won numerous awards in several international film festivals.
While playing in the forest, three children stumble across a character that looks like Godard's Pierrot le Fou. The latter listens to the news on the radio announcing a series of environmental disasters. Distressed, the children connect to a tree that sends them on a mission to reboot the planetary consciousness.
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August 9, 2024
