A B-Boy 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.
Story
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, in El Salvador or Sudan.
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!)
Selected videos
Shot in Nigeria
More
- 2007 – Battle de Massy Trailer (with SylVNR)
- 2009 – IBE Trailer (with TharX)
- 2011 – R16 Korea Opening Clip (with SylVNR)
- 2011 – IBE Brazil
- 2012 – R16 Korea Teaser
- 2013 – R16 Korea Opening Clip
- 2013 – Juste Debout World Tour for Canal + (with Tomson)
- 2013 – Leaving a Thumbprint (short doc shot in El Salvador)
- 2014 – B-Boy C-Lil promo (Laos)
- 2014 – IBE Aftermovie
- 2015 – Red Bull BC One Kyrgyzstan
- 2015 – Red Bull BC One Holland
- 2015 – R16 Korea Opening (with S. Williams)
- 2016 – Meet in the Middle (short doc)
- 2016 – Mighty All Styles Sudan