Raphaël Grisey uses film, editorial and photographic works to address politics of memory, architecture, migration and agriculture (Trappes, Ville Nouvelle, 2003; Cooperative, 2008, Sowing Somankidi Coura, a Generative Archive 2015-). The films Prvi Deo and Red Star (2006) with Florence Lazar, focused on post-war justice in former Yugoslavia. Other ones were made in France amid students’ strikes after the 2008 crisis (The Indians, 2011), in Wuhan, China amid Míngōng peasant-workers (The Exchange of Perspectives, 2011), in the social housing complex Pedregulho (Minhocão, 2011), in the Positivist Church of Rio de Janeiro (Amor e Progresso, 2014) and around quilombolas maroons communities in Minas Gerais, Brasil (Remanescentes; A Mina dos Vagalumes, 2015). His ongoing artistic research and collaboration Sowing Somankidi Coura, a Generative Archive, with Bouba Touré was presented recently at the Kàddu Yaraax Theatre Forum Festival (SN), Kunsthall Trondheim, Levart (NO), Savvy Contemporary (DE), Den Fries (DK), 9th Contour Biennale (BE), Villa Romana (IT), Un Lieu pour Respirer, Centre Pompidou Cosmopolis (FR), Dhaka Art Summit (BD), Open Justice (CA) and in Konsthall Göteborg (SU). He is currently finishing the long feature film Xaraasi Xanne – Crossing Voices, together with Bouba Touré.