Documenting breaking

My life would have been very different if I didn’t discover breaking in Summer 2001. What I first did to look cool quickly turned to a real passion, and took me on a journey. I soon picked up my first camera 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 two main online breaking communities 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 Japan, Brazil, China… I made dozens of videos for international dance events, including Chelles Pro, IBE, R16 Korea, Juste Debout… I got the chance to work with some of my dance idols, and also to meet hidden talents, in El Salvador, or Sudan…

I paused this work between 2016 and 2022, but I’m currently catching up with it. In 2024, I coproduced a short story on the breakers of Gaza Strip, and I’m currently developing a couple of projects.

And I still practice (almost) every week!

↑ *Mighty All Styles battle in Khartum, Sudan — 2016*

The most noticed video I made is probably this fictional promo clip for the festival The Notorious IBE . It’s a 3 min point-of-view video, inspired by a Nike commercial, and guerilla-shot in France, Netherlands and Korea. It tells the story of a rising breaker, and stars a number of b-boy legends including Brahim, Neguin, Marcio, Hong 10, Benji, Niek, Mennoh and many more.