Nicolas Blies & Stéphane Hueber-Blies
Nicolas Blies and Stéphane Hueber-Blies (Blies brothers) are two digital artists, directors, scriptwriters and film producers who create their work together. Multidisciplinary in their artistic approach, they seek to develop a form of “social poetry”. They are also co-founders of the audiovisual production companies a_BAHN and Velvet Flare.
In 2015, they conceptualized the documentary music transmedia Soundhunters in co-production with ARTE. Soundhunters was imagined to transform the world into an infinite musical instrument. The transmedia was released in 2015 in collaboration with many international artists including Jean Michel Jarre, Simonne Jones or Blixa Bargeld. In 2016, the Blies brothers were invited to present their work at Lincoln Center during the New York Film Festival. The project was placed in 2016 under the high patronage of UNESCO.
In 2019, they wrote and directed Zero Impunity about the impunity of sexual violence in wartime. Hybridizing animation and live action, the film is considered one of the precursors in the field, particularly for its ability to « Figuring the unmentionable ». The Blies brothers were invited by the Annecy International Animation Film Festival to participate in the traditional "Cinema Masterclass" of the festival to talk about the issue of "sexual violence in animation". In 2021, the film was nominated for the Trophées Francophones du Cinéma in the "Best Documentary" category.
In 2024, the Blies brothers released the digital art installation Ceci est mon coeur, about the reconciliation of a child with his body, mixing video-mapping and connected clothing. The World Premiere of Ceci est mon coeur took place during the Venice International Film Festival, then selected out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2025, the project was distinguished during the prestigious “Breakthroughs in Storytelling Awards” from Columbia University New York City.
Jury
In 2020, the Blies brothers are members of the feature film jury section "Contrechamp" of the 44th International Animation Film Festival of Annecy. In 2018, Nicolas Blies is a member of the jury section "National Documentary" and Stéphane Hueber-Blies member and president of the section "Innovation Award" at the 31st International Festival of Audiovisual Production of Biarritz (FIPA).
