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Xavier Curnillon studied at the Conservatory of Cinema and began his career by directing a documentary on indigenous communities in the Amazonian forest (Ecuador). He then coordinated graduate studies at L’Ina (Institut national de l’audiovisuel) and went to teach for three years in Nunavik. Upon his return to Montreal, it is the meeting with choreographer Paul-André Fortier that will lead the director to work in the world of dance.
Director specialized in the capture of movement. His first film Perception is selected at FIFA, RVCQ, FTA. He then directed Scannographie for the 35 screens of Place-des-Arts, then the film Migrant Bodies, best art short film at the Master Film Festival. In his work, the ethnic and organic dimensions of movements are amplified and mutually contaminate each other. After winning the Optique danse award from the Conseil des arts de Montréal, he directed a new short film, À tes pulsions, which mixes dance and fiction and was selected at the FNC (Festival du Nouveau Cinéma). He then approaches mental health with an exhibition project Territoires in partnership with Circuit-Est Centre chorégraphique and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts through plastic works and body movement.
Later as a director, he integrates the project Danse Mutante by Mélanie Demers and goes to film dance in New-York with the artist Ann Liv Young, then in Bamako with Kettly Noël and finally in Rotterdam with Ann Van den Broek.
He consolidates his expertise in dance with his various collaborations such as; Danièle Desnoyers, Mélanie Demers, Virginie Brunelle, Louise Bédard, Catherine Gaudet, Valeria Galluccio, Morgane Le Tiec, Karine Ledoyen, Paco Ziel.
He is currently finishing a documentary on Françoise Sullivan and is working on the creation of three new short films, including one in collaboration with Hélène Blackburn.

Biographical notes provided by the film production team

Selected films:
Strain (2020)
Nostalgia (2018)
Territories (2016−2017)
À tes pulsions (2016−2017)
Migrant Bodies (2015)