Jonathan Vinel

Jonathan Vinel studied editing at La Fémis. Caroline Poggi studied at the University of Corsica and the University of Paris IV. They collaborated on As Long As Shotguns Remain (2014), which won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlinale. Their first feature film, Jessica Forever (2018), premiered at TIFF and subsequently played at the Berlinale.

Our Legacy

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, France, 2016, 24’

Lucas invites his girlfriend Anäis to visit him at home. His father is Pierre Woodman, a famous porn director. Between computer games and pornographic archive material, a fictional story unfolds.

How Are You?

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, France, 2025, 31’

In this hybrid 3D animated film, a pseudo-intellectual menagerie reflects on the contemporary political landscape on the other side of the Corsican Sea through dry wit and Disney fonts.

Our Legacy (Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, 2016)

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Against a Hierarchy of Images

Interview with Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel

Maike Höhne, Flo Vanhorebeek

11.11.2026

In 2025, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg approached acclaimed French filmmaking duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel to visualise the festival motto “Provoke Love” as a festival trailer. With an arsenal of archival internet footage, their signature dystopian wit and a killer soundtrack, they ask a simple question: How do we find a way to be together again? Festival artistic director Maika Mia Höhne sat down with Vinel and Poggi to dissect this universal desire through the lens of their own artistic careers, exploring themes such as small-town boredom, growing up with the internet, and the terrible beauty inherent in all of this.