Silvia Lippi is a psychoanalyst. With a background in philosophy, she holds a doctorate in psychology and works as a hospital psychologist at the Barthélémy Durand Public Health Facility in Étampes. She develops a form of psychoanalysis that pays particular attention to psychotic experiences and issues raised by contemporary minority groups. Her latest book is Soeurs, Pour une psychanalyse féministe (Seuil, 2023, with Patrice Maniglier), and her next publication will be Freud l’ingouvernable (Stilus, Oct. 2025).

Fabrice Bourlez is a psychoanalyst in Paris. He teaches philosophy at art schools (ESAD Reims/ENSBA Paris) and is a lecturer in psychology at Paris Cité. He is a permanent member of the Paris 8 LEGS laboratory on gender and sexuality. He teaches clinical practice at the International Institute of Psychoanalysis. He wrote Pulsions pasoliniennes in 2015, Queer psychoanalysis in 2018, and Tacts in 2025.

Psychoanalyst and psychologist Florent Gabarron-Garcia is a lecturer at Paris VIII University and a member of the journal Chimères, founded by Deleuze and Guattari. Trained at the La Borde clinic, he worked in psychiatry for over ten years. He is the author of L’héritage politique de la psychanalyse (The Political Legacy of Psychoanalysis), published in 2018 by La Lenteur (and released in a second paperback edition by Amsterdam in 2025), and L’histoire populaire de la psychanalyse (A Popular History of Psychoanalysis), published in 2021 by La Fabrique.

Session introduced by Katia Dansoko Touré, author and journalist at Libération.
and preceded by a reading from La Solitude des notes bleues by Katia Dansoko Touré (2025, Jean-Claude Lattès)

Before understanding who she is and what she wants, the heroine and narrator of La solitude des notes bleues (February 2025, JC Lattès) was a lost, abandoned child, the product of a doomed union, growing up from one place to another, from one adoption to another, with music and an indigo blue boubou as her only consolations. This debut novel combines a quest for identity, female memory, magical realism, and melodies, in which music echoes the fragments of a shattered life. Each chapter of this novel corresponds to a piece of music, from Ambrose Akinmusire to Alice Coltrane, Matthew Halsall, and Alain Jean-Marie.

Katia Dansoko Touré, born on January 22, 1988, is currently a journalist at Libération where, in addition to culture, she writes about social issues related to feminism and lifestyles. For nearly 15 years, she has focused on socio-cultural issues affecting the African continent, the French West Indies, and their diasporas, among other topics. Afrofuturism has been a prominent topic for more than ten years. She has worked for media outlets such as L’Obs, Slate Afrique, Jeune Afrique, Le Monde, Les Inrocks, and France Antilles Guadeloupe. These collaborations have taken her to Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Dominica. She is now based in Paris, where, as a music lover, she has been collaborating with Jazz Magazine since 2015, after lending her pen and voice to So Jazz, Magic Revue RPM, Le Monde Diplomatique, Radio Nova, TSF Jazz, and others. She also writes for music festival programming in France (some of which she has also covered) as well as for musicians. She has written her first novel, La solitude des notes bleues, published in February 2025 by JC Lattès, which won the Barbès Prize for the best literary and unique work inspired by the world of music in June 2025.

Frances Dobono, Afronauts, 16 min, 2014, Ghana

Afronauts is an alternative history of the space race of the 1960s, based on the true story of Edward Makuka Nkoloso’s Zambian National Academy of Science, Space and Astronomical Research, and his team’s attempts to be the first to send a rocket to the moon. In her own words, Nuotama Frances Dobono’s work features “lookalikes, imaginary friends, ventriloquist dummies, and non-institutionalized madmen who constantly disrupt society’s view of itself.” Her first film, Boneshaker (2013), was nominated for an Oscar. In 2018, Bodomo was the writer and director of Random Acts of Flyness, an HBO series created by Terence Nance.

Cauleen Smith, Deep West Assembly, 34 min, 2024, United States

Cauleen Smith is internationally renowned for her works inspired by experimental cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, science fiction films and literature, as well as Afro-diasporic experience and thought.

The Deep West Assembly explores the concepts of geological time and darkness as they are camouflaged in images, songs, and words by Black creators (based on thinkers such as Suzanne Césaire and Ryan C. Clarke). Incorporating images of geological formations such as lava caves, calderas, and salt domes, as well as man-made reliefs such as ancient Choctaw mounds, The Deep West Assembly depicts the American South as a horizontal “Deep West” (a term borrowed from poet Wanda Coleman). Smith situates this cultural Deep West in the Mississippi Delta, exploring Black cultural practices as relatives of indigenous traditions. Actress Dionne Audain embodies several voices—guides—who read, among other texts, Smith’s recent Volcano Manifesto (F Books, 2022) for the camera.

Josefa Ntjam, Dislocation, 2022, 18 min, France

By seeking permeabilities between temporalities, histories, hybrid (and sometimes monstrous) bodies, and geographies composed of fragments of the known and unknown, Ntjam’s character Persona is subtly inhabited by memories and stories of her ancestors’ struggle for Cameroon’s independence. By reworking history based on unofficial, personal, and embodied stories, some of which have been silenced and set aside, the artist repairs the historical legacy by integrating repressed voices and narratives, bringing together fiction, memories, dreams, reality, myths, artificiality, and orality, which is strongly linked to sound, vibrations, and words in perpetual reconfiguration. Written and directed by Josèfa Ntjam, in collaboration with Sean Hart and Nicolas Pirus.

Riar Rizaldi, Mirage Eigenstate, 2024, 30 min, Indonesia

Mirage: Eigenstate weaves connections between similar research on the nature of reality, positioning Western science as one methodology among many in a constellation of pluralistic worldviews. The film explores various interpretations of reality—from tropical Sufi mysticism and monorealism to theories of quantum mechanics. Edited in the style of the 1980s television series Cosmos by American astronomer and planetary scientist Carl Sagan, which sought to explain the origin of life and the fourth spatial dimension, Mirage: Eigenstate follows in the tradition of mass scientific communication, where complex concepts are made accessible through simple explanations, often accompanied by images.

Riar Rizaldi is an artist and filmmaker. He works primarily with moving images and sound, both in the context of the cinema and in that of installation. His artistic practice focuses mainly on the relationship between technology, work and nature, worldviews, genre cinema and the possibility of theoretical fiction. His works have been presented at various international film festivals (including Locarno, IFFR, FID Marseille, Viennale, BFI London, Cinéma du Réel, Vancouver, etc.) as well as at the Centre Pompidou Paris (2021), the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2024), the Whitney Museum Biennial (2024), the Taipei Biennial (2023), the Istanbul Biennial (2023), the Venice Architecture Biennale (2021), the Jogja Biennale (2021), the National Gallery of Indonesia (2019), and other venues and institutions. In addition, recent solo exhibitions and thematic programs of his work have been held at Gasworks in London (2024), Z33 in Hasselt (2024), the Centre de la Photographie Genève (2023), and the Batalha Centro de Cinema Porto (2023), among others.