BIO
Amélie Ravalec is a London-based Parisian film director and producer, photographer, editor and colourist.
Her films have been released theatrically worldwide with over 1200 screenings in cinemas, festivals, museums and cultural institutions in 50 countries. Her work has been acquired by networks including ARTE, Sky Arts UK, and ORF Austria, and has received over fifteen international awards. In 2025, she was invited by Italian luxury fashion house Bottega Veneta as the featured artist of the year for their Inclusion & Diversity Via Arts Initiative.
Ravalec is the director and producer of films Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers (2025), Sumarsólstöður (2025), Labyrinth of the Unseen World (2025), Japan Visions (in post-production), Art & Mind (2019), Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban Decay (2015) and Paris/Berlin: 20 Years Of Underground Techno (2012), short films The Amorphous Man-Statue (2024), IKIRYŌ (2024), BUTŌ (2022) and many music videos. She is the author and designer of Japan Art Revolution, published by Thames & Hudson (2025).
Passionate about new technologies, Amélie Ravalec co-founded Circle Time Studio. Ravalec edited Fan Club, one of the first VR feature films, which was presented at Cannes Film Festival, and has published an art book entirely made with AI, Posthuman Codex. She is a spokesperson for emerging technology in film including AI and VR, producing an AI film for ARTE TV (2025) and guest speaker at a panel on VR filmmaking at Cannes Festival (2018).
Ravalec works as a freelance senior colourist, working internationally in advertising, films and TV for clients including American Express, Apple, Asics, BBC, Boots, Channel 5, Coca-Cola, Ford, H&M, Google, Heineken, Ikea, Johnnie Walker, Mazda, Nestlé, Nespresso, Philips, Porsche, Rolls Royce, Sony, Tik Tok, Virgin and Warner Bros. She is currently represented by Ewanme, The Crewing Company & Yellow Cat.
She is the founder of Lone Gentlemen Publishing, an independent imprint publishing limited-edition art and photography books and prints, distributed internationally by Antenne Books and sold in museums and bookshops worldwide.
Beyond filmmaking, Ravalec is also a record collector and DJ. She co-founded underground techno record label and events Fondation Sonore in 2011 with Gregorio Sicurezza, and Brussels warehouse club The Lodge in 2014.
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“Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers is a masterfully insightful work, one of Ravalec’s best, and opens a window onto an area of art that has been overlooked and underrated for far too long. This is a truly impressive visual feast of a film. Miss it at your peril." Outside Left
“Ravalec has not made an art documentary in the traditional sense, but something more visceral and disorienting. The mix of image, video, voice and music whisks you away to this enchanting world, which was borne from the ashes of another. ”" Dazed
“In this collision of poetic and violent visual languages, Ravalec invites us to re-understand the meaning of “avant-garde” as a repeated self-ignition in the ruins, a courage to redraw boundaries at the edge of collapse.“ Deep Focus
“Amélie Ravalec is an extraordinary filmmaker, a dynamo of energy and perpetual motion. Her latest film is a remarkable piece of work.“ The Beauty of Kinbaku
"Sumarsólstöður is a breathtaking exploration of art, history, and the delicate balance between creativity and destruction. Directed by the visionary Amélie Ravalec, this mesmerizing film takes us on a cosmic journey where dreams, art, and reality collide." Chroma Art Film Festival
"An ecosystem of unsettling beauty, a haunting meditation on fractured truth and blurred identities, Labyrinth of the Unseen World is fractured nature of truth, complexity of individual and human psychological and physical survival in entropic universe." Creatrix Mag
“***** Fascinating, entertaining, and most importantly, an incredibly inspiring watch.” Eastern Kicks
“A portal into a phantasmagorical world that is grotesque, erotic, dangerous, and as absurd as "Alice Through the Looking Glass" - yet also comical, exciting and unforgettable." Nikkei Asia
"Director Amélie Ravalec brings an extraordinary collection of Japanese avant-garde works to life. Intense, unconventional, and completely immersive. " Japan Society
“Both beautiful and brutal in equal measure. Essential viewing. " Perth Happenings.
“Raw, uncompromising, and political. The film is not just a retrospective, but a call to reconsider art as a form of resistance." Akut Mag
“Amélie Ravalec's dazzling film Art & Mind is an unparalleled chronicle, a journey into haunting, haunted places, which fascinates and captivates." Raw Vision
" Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban Decay is a whistlestop tour of the genre's genesis that succeeds in capturing the sheer oddness of the nascent industrial scene." The Guardian
