Amélie Ravalec

Watch the official film trailer for 𝙅𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝘼𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙩-𝙂𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚 𝙋𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙨, directed by @amelieravalec In cinemas Spring 2025. . Featuring over 600 works of art and interviews by Araki Nobuyoshi, Moriyama Daidō, Hosoe Eikoh, Ishiuchi Miyako, Tanaami Keiichi, Yokoo Tadanori, Mishima Yukio, Hijikata Tatsumi, Ohno Kazuo, Terayama Shūji, Kawada Kikuji and many more. . Amidst the profound social change and political turmoil of post-war Japan, a bold generation of avant-garde artists emerged in the 1960s, redefining the boundaries of art through experimental photography, graphic design, underground theatre, performance art and radical Butoh dance—forever transforming the global art landscape.  . Produced by Circle Time Studio Co-Produced by Maaserhit Honda . / . #japaneseavantgarde #日本前衛派の開拓者 #avantgarde #artdocumentary #japanesephotography #shujiterayama #寺山修司 #tadanoriyokoo #横尾忠則 #arakinobuyoshi #nobuyoshiaraki #荒木経惟 #アラーキー #daidomoriyama #moriyamadaido #森山大道 #japanesephotobooks #photobookjousting #photobooklovers #eikohhosoe #細江英公 #keiichitanaami #田名網敬一 #mishima #yukiomishima #butoh #tatsumihijikata #kazuoohno #butohdance

“Making things is an act of construction and destruction. War is about destruction, but because of the destructive act that the war inflicts on us, the desire to create is even stronger.” Yokoo Tadanori. 𝙅𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝘼𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙩-𝙂𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚 𝙋𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙨 is now available to order on USB, Blu-Ray and DVD via /shop / Link in bio.

Following the theatrical release, very excited to announce that 𝙅𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝘼𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙩-𝙂𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚 𝙋𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙨 is now available to pre-order via /shop / link in bio. Available on USB card, Blu-Ray and DVD, ships June 1. Featuring Araki Nobuyoshi, Moriyama Daido, Hosoe Eikoh, Ishiuchi Miyako, Tanaami Keiichi, Yokoo Tadanori, Mishima Yukio, Hijikata Tatsumi, Ohno Kazuo, Terayama Shūji, Watanabe Hitomi, Neo-Dada Organizers, Hi-Red Center, Awazu Kiyoshi, Kawada Kikuji and many more.

Repost @huckmagazine “Like in many other nations, Japan’s elites placed a strong focus on cultivating the arts throughout its long history. It acted as a way of upholding and enforce a collective nationalist identity that served the ruling class, but artists always found a way to subvert the norms. “Japan has always been a deeply hierarchical, conformist, classist society, but there were always undercurrents pushing against that,” says Parisian film director and producer @amelieravalec , whose documentary feature film Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers @japanavantgarde premiered in New York in 2025. Now Ravalec returns with Japan Art Revolution: The Japanese Avant-Garde, from Angura to Provoke (@thamesandhudsonusa ), the first comprehensive English language book to trace the post-war explosion of the avant-garde across photography, illustration, graphic design, film, theatre, dance, and street performance. Organised chronologically, Japan Art Revolution showcases visionaries including Daido Moriyama, Provoke, Eikö Hosoe, Noboyushi Araki, Mikayo Ishiuchi, Neo-Dada Organizers and Hi-Red Center into a chronicle of radical counterculture that revolutionised the arts worldwide.”

Honoured to join the awesome line-up at Iceland Eclipse Festival, alongside some of my favourites artists including Alex Grey @alexgreycosm , film director Darren Aronofski @darrenaronofsky , NASA astronauts and many more. I’ll be presenting some of the new episodes from our series 𝑺𝑶𝑳𝑺𝑻𝑰𝑪𝑬 with screenwriter @vincentravalec , and shooting during Iceland’s once-in-a-century total solar eclipse. Can’t wait! Last tickets available via @icelandeclipse

“𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙁𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙝 by Amélie Ravalec is a new photographic project the artist is presenting in her first solo show as a photographer, revealing a deeply sensory and corporeal exploration of the human body through imagery that evokes ritual, intensity and presence. Ravalec, known for her engagement with avant-garde aesthetics and immersive cultural expressions, often blends photography with cinematic and performative sensibilities. Invocations of Flesh participates in this lineage by foregrounding the body as a site of invocation, memory and intensity, inviting viewers to confront how physicality and emotion intersect within contemporary photographic practice.” /photographers/am%C3%A9lie-ravalec

We’re excited to announce that we are hosting a Melbourne screening for @amelieravalec documentary ‘ Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers ‘ at @cinema_eclipse in just a few weeks. @japanavantgarde 1 screening only!! March 29th 6.00 pm at @cinema_eclipse in Collingwood Tickets available in @firstedition.library Bio Directed by Amelie Ravalec and Produced by Circle Time Studio & Co produced by Whatsopp. Inc. Amidst the profound social change and political turmoil of post-war Japan, a bold generation of avant-garde artists emerged in the 1960s, redefining the boundaries of art through experimental photography, graphic design, underground theatre, performance art and radical Butoh dance—forever transforming the global art landscape. Featuring Araki Nobuyoshi, Moriyama Daidō, Hosoe Eikoh, Ishiuchi Miyako, Tanaami Keiichi, Yokoo Tadanori, Mishima Yukio, Hijikata Tatsumi, Ohno Kazuo, Terayama Shūji, Tenjō Sajiki, Kawada Kikuji, Neo-Dada Organizers, Hi-Red Center, Awazu Kiyoshi, Kaneko Ryūichi, Hanaga Mitsutoshi, Enomoto Ryoichi, Nakahira Takuma, Tanabe Santaro, Sasame Hiroyuki, Mizohata Toshio, Morishita Takashi, Lena Fritsch, Alexandra Munroe, Lucy Fleming-Brown, Peter Tasker, Master K.

IPFA AWARD 2026 🎉 It’s with great pleasure to share that the 20 winners and the 50 finalists of the very first award of the International Photography Festivals Association (IPFA) have been announced today! After being one of the 20 international jurors, I am happy to announce the artist who I selected and will curate for an international solo exhibition! Proud to work together with the amazing artist Amélie Ravalec, a London-based Parisian film director and photographer, editor and colourist! Amélie is the author and book designer of ‘Japan Art Revolution’, that has been already internationally launched and was present amongst others at Paris Photo, alongside the projection of the film. Her films have been released worldwide with more than 1200 screenings in cinemas, festivals, museums and cultural institutions. Looking forward @amelieravalec And thanks to our festivals association @photographyfestivals for the great support in the realization of this huge project! Image @ Amélie Ravalac | Invocation or Flesh | 2025 #photography #internationalfestival #awardwinner #soloexhibition #japan

Very excited to announce my first solo show as a photographer, for my new work 𝑰𝒏𝒗𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒉. Many thanks to the IPFA Award 2025 and to curator Ioana Cobzaru for selecting and supporting my work! A series of hand-painted photographic prints capturing Butoh dancers Ichihara Akihito of Sankai Juku and Paul Michael Henry, a study of the body as invocation, ritual and erasure. Ichihara Akihito, a spectral presence, ethereal and dissolving, as if called from above, barely tethered to the earth. Paul Michael Henry, a force of gravity and conflict, pulled downwards, raw and visceral, stirred by something primal. Can’t wait for the exhibition! @photographyfestivals @ioana_cobzaru_art @paul.michael.henry @sankaijuku @ak_ichihara #butoh #sankaijuku

“This riotous collection . . . revels in the wild world of 1960s and ’70s Japanese counterculture.” — @publisherswkly Now available in North America, "Japan Art Revolution: The Japanese Avant-Garde from Angura to Provoke" brings together over 600 striking works by Moriyama Daido, Hosoe Eikō, Ishiuchi Miyako, Araki Nobuyoshi, Yokoo Tadanori, and many more. Featuring rare interviews alongside expert essays and archival insights, this landmark publication offers a vivid, in-depth look at Japan’s radical avant-garde. Image credits: © Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation / © Santaro Tanabe’s Estate. Courtesy of Hana Miriam Tanabe / © Yokoo Tadanori. Courtesy of Yokoo’s Circus Co.

2025 Highlight #4 - Shooting the second and third episodes of 𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆 in Tokyo, London and Paris with a fantastic cast and crew. Currently editing the episodes, and I can’t wait to return to Iceland in summer 2026 to shoot the season final during the solar eclipse at @icelandeclipse festival!

2025 Highlight #3 - Festival release of my first fiction work 𝙎𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙨𝙤́𝙡𝙨𝙩𝙤̈ð𝙪𝙧, as a pilot for our series 𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆. Truly honoured by the film’s reception, winning 25 awards and 12 nominations during our festival run. Produced with our entire family team at @circletimestudio including @vincentravalec , @benjaminravalec @traviscollinsuk A great adventure shooting across the world from Japan, Iceland, Taiwan and China to Italy, France and UK, with a wonderful cast and crew aged 5 to 93 years old, horses and falcons, and experimenting with AI and new technology. Currently in production for the next episodes!