Breaking

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.



Chasing the Double Airflare (Le Monde, 2024)


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.

B-Boy Lilou — Nigeria, 2017

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

↑ The Breakerz of Gaza Strip (2024)
English version (Stance) / Version française (Loopsider)
Teaser IBE Festival 2010


↑ Trailer IBE Festival 2008


↑ Trailer Chelles Battle Pro 2007


↑ R16 Korea 2015 Opening Clip


↑ B-Boy Lilou, dancer without borders (Le Monde, 2017)
Shot in Nigeria


More

↑ B-Boy Barry – Nigeria, 2017
↑ B-Boy Lilou – Nigeria, 2017
↑ B-Boy Ayman – Qatar, 2015
A battle in Omdurman, Sudan 2016