Olivier Zabat

Olivier Zabat, born in 1965, conducts independent and innovative artistic and filmic research. His documentaries have been shown in international art centers and festivals such as the Venice Film Festival, BAFICI in Buenos Aires and the IFFR in Rotterdam. They are also broadcast on the Arte channel, La Lucarne program. His latest film, Arguments, had its Premiere at the Locarno Festival in 2019. In 2020, it was programmed at the prestigious Doc Fortnight at MoMA in New York. It won the Mario Ruspoli Prize at the Jean Rouch International Festival and the International Documentary Award at the Ethnocineca festival in Vienna. Olivier Zabat lives in Paris and has been teaching film and video at the Fine Arts in Lyon since 2006.