BIO
Amélie Ravalec is a London-based Parisian film director and producer, photographer, editor and colourist.
Ravalec’s 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 a dozen international awards.
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), and 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).
She also works as a freelance senior colourist, working internationally in advertising, films and TV. She is currently represented by Ewanme, The Crewing Company and Yellow Cat.
Ravalec founded publishing company Lone Gentlemen Publishing, where she publishes limited-edition art and photography books and prints. Her books are sold in museums and bookshops internationally and currently distributed by Antenne Books.
She 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.
SELECTED PRESS
“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
“Amélie Ravalec's new film Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers provides 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. You are being hit by a flood of visuals; intense, unconventional, and completely immersive. The images are both dark and vivid, but what ties them together is a strong, clear artistic vision." Japan Society
'“This is not for the faint-hearted, and the confronting content will challenge Western sensitivities. This is the very reason why the film is important, as it captures an entire segment of Japanese history that’s rarely seen. The film is both beautiful and brutal in equal measure. Essential viewing. " Perth Happenings.
“Filmmaker Amélie Ravalec uses haunting imagery and a precise sense of historical context to paint a portrait of an artistic movement that shook Japan in the 1960s – 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 will fascinate and captivate both experts in the field and those for whom its themes are less familiar." 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
"A burning insight into the rise and enduring influence of Industrial music" Hero
