Laetitia Carton

Laetitia Carton was born in Vichy in 1974. She started exhibiting her work in contemporary art venues as soon as she graduated from the Fine-Arts School in Clermont-Ferrand. She then did a post-graduate degree at the Lyon School of Art, where she discovered creative documentary making. She decided to take a different route and did a master's degree in documentary filmmaking at Lussas. Her graduation film, D’un chagrin j’ai fait un repos (I Turned Sorrow into Rest) was selected and awarded at several festivals around the world. In 2009, she made her first feature-length documentary for television, La Pieuvre (The Octopus) about Huntington's disease. She has made several short films, including Grands-Mères (Grandmothers, 2004) and Edmond, un portrait de Baudoin (Edmond, a Portrait of Baudoin, 2014), J'avancerai vers toi avec les yeux d'un sourd (I Will Walk Towards you with the Eyes of a Deaf Person, 2015) and Le Grand Bal (The Great Ball, 2018).