Breaking | Antoine Schirer

A breaker since twenty years, I spent a decade filming the scene for the (late) online media Style2ouf.com and international events like IBE and R16 Korea.

My life would have been very different if I didn’t discover breaking in Summer 2001, at the age of 16. I touched my first video camera no long later, and started to shoot my crew mates and our first battles in South West France.

I remained an average B-Boy, but things got off on the filmmaking side. I joined the media Style2ouf, one of the world’s main website for breaking at that time, and started shooting dancers, crews and battles. I learnt how to produce, shoot, edit and promote my work.

Unexpectedly, this took me to more than 35 countries, from USA to Korea, Brazil, Nigeria… Over a decade, I made dozens of videos for international dance events including IBE, R16 Korea, Battle Pro, Juste Debout… I got the chance to work with many of my dance idols, and also to meet hidden talents, from El Salvador, Sudan or Palestine.

As my career shifted toward journalism, I stopped covering international competitions. I now aim to develop documentary films projects and tell meaningful breaking stories. In 2024, I coproduced with B-Boy Lilou a short story about Camps Breakerz, a dance school in Gaza enduring israeli bombings. And we’ve just published “Chasing the double airflare”, a 14 minutes documentary film for Le Monde.

(And I still practice every week!)