Claire Lasolle

Claire Lasolle has been a member of the selection committee for the FIDMarseille festival since 2020 and of the FIDLAB committee, an international co-production platform, since 2025. She has been co-responsible for the focus on Laure Prouvost during the 2023 edition. She is co-founder of Videodrome 2 (Marseille), an alternative cinema with a daily programme (heritage cinema, experimental films, documentaries, film series, talks, and seminars...), for which she has been responsible for artistic coordination and development from 2014 to 2025. Claire Lasolle has served on international juries and is involved in programming, criticism, and education as a guest lecturer at the University of Aix Marseille. Together with Ben Russell, Jeff Silva, and Laurent van Lancker, she programmes the monthly event Double Vision, with support from the A*Midex Chair of Excellence.

Claire Lasolle participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Claire Lasolle’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
Soft Fiction Chick Strand USA 1979 55’
Ce vieux rêve qui bouge That Old Dream That Moves Alain Guiraudie France 2001 51’
Les Mains négatives Marguerite Duras France 1978 14’
Méditerranée Jean-Daniel Pollet France 1963 43’
Fake Fruit Factory Chick Strand Mexico, USA 1986 22’
Black and White Trypps Number Three Ben Russell USA 2007 12’
Don’t Forget No olvidar Ignacio Agüero Chile 1982 30’
La Ricotta Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy 1963 34’
Khabur Nafis Fathollahzadeh Iran, Germany 2023 31’
Slow Glass John Smith United Kingdom 1991 41’