The International Art Books and Films Festival (in French, Festival International du Livre d'Art et du Film) or FILAF, is an international festival about artbooks and films which takes place annually in Perpignan (South of France) since 2011. Its goal is to promote and award the best books and films about art produced each year in the world.
History and goals
Noting the world absence of a real event only focused on art books, and similarly on the field of art films, the Cogito Organization and its president Sébastien Planas created the International Artbooks and Films Festival in Perpignan. The first edition took place in June 2011
The aim of the festival is to present to the general public a selection of the best books and films on art published or produced during the past year on an international scale. Authors, editors, directors, producers and selected artists are invited to Perpignan to present their work. A week of conferences, screenings, readings, signatures, workshops for children, professional round tables, thematic evenings, allows the world of art to meet and present its most important productions.
The FILAF festival relies on a scientific professional committee, recognized in each of their disciplines, responsible for selection throughout the year. It also mobilizes an annually renewed jury which, at the end of the festival, awards the Gold FILAF, the Silver FILAF and the Special Jury Prize (categories "book" and « film »).
In 2016, the FILAF festival created a new prize in collaboration with French Art Fair Galeristes, to reward the best art book published by an art gallery.
Scientific committee
From 2011 to 2016
Xavier Canonne (Director, Museum of Photography in Charleroi) Hélène Joubert (Curator, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris) Philippe Régnier (Editor-in-Chief, Daily Art) Guillaume Faroult (Louvre Museum) Pierre Jaubert (RMN Library, Louvre Museum) Florence Viguier (Director, Ingres Museum in Montauban) Eberhard Hinkel (Distributor, Interart, Paris) Hervé Lœvenbruck (Galerie Lœvenbruck, Paris) Chantal Herrmann (Editor-in-Chief, Paris Mômes) André Delpuech (Director Museum of Man, Paris) Bernard Benoliel (Cinémathèque française) Laurence Des Cars (Director, Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris)
2018
Didier Brousse (Founder and Director Galerie Camera Obscura) Didier Ottinger (Director Centre Pompidou Paris) Alexandre Curnier (Director Noto Magazine) Samuel Hoppe (Director Volume artbook shop Paris) Pierre Samoyault (Director Interart Paris) Stéphane Corréard (Director at the Parisian art fair Galeristes) Alba Zamolo (Director youth artbook shop in the Louvre Museum Paris) Patricia Falguières (Teacher at EHESS)
2019
Alba Zamolo (Director youth Artbooks shop in the Louvre Museum, Paris) Matthieu Conquet (Radio journalist at France Culture) Hélène Joubert (Curator, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris) Jean-Michel Frodon (Historian, critic, and cinema journalist) Samuel Hoppe (Director at the Volume library, Paris) Jean-Hubert Martin (Curator and former director of the Centre Pompidou Paris and Kunsthalle in Bern)
2020
Alba Zamolo (Director youth Artbooks shop in the Louvre Museum, Paris) Matthieu Conquet (Radio journalist at France Culture) Hélène Joubert (Curator, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris) Jean-Michel Frodon (Historian, critic, and cinema journalist) Samuel Hoppe (Director at the Volume library, Paris) Stéphane Corréard (Director of the Parisian art fair Galeristes) Guillaume Kientz (Director of the Hispanic Society Museum, New-York) Sébastien Gokalp (Director at the Musée de l'histoire de l'immigration)
Jurys
2012
Catherine Millet, editor-in-chief of the art review art press and Honorary President of the jury Fabrice Hergott, director at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Guillaume Houzé, sponsorship director in Galeries Lafayette Group Xavier Cannone, director at Photography Museum in Charleroi Pierre Thoretton, filmmaker.
2013
Robert Storr, art critic and Honorary President of the jury
Jean-Paul Boucheny, filmmaker and producer
Jennifer Flay, director of the Fiac (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, Paris) Line Ouellet, director at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec Éric de Chassey, director at the French Academy in Rome Laurent Le Bon, director at the Picaso Museum in Paris Marta Gili, director at Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.