Eugène L'Homer
Saint Barth en balade - Film - 20min - 2026
présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 28 - Invisibles ?
Film
Saint Barth en balade tells the story of the encounter between two solitary figures. A relationship develops between them, woven by furtive glances and fetishistic gestures, in which each becomes a fantasy image in the gentle, curious gaze of the other.
The project was inspired by the artists’s discovery of Farrokh Mahdavi’s paintings in 2019. His characters, their bright pink skin transformed into a thick crust by obsessive shaving, reveal an extreme vulnerability in the relationship between masculinities and body hair. This encounter with what I perceive as a form of drag king impels me to explore the sensitive and solitary tipping point that appears when one is out of step with hegemonic masculinity. Whilst these feelings today often lead down a slippery slope towards masculinism, they are also the intimate discovery of a marginality that can lead to queer and inventive lives, given the timely avoidance of certain ideological paths.
From these questions, two characters emerge. These discrepancies are invitations to invent new ways of being, of appearing, and of engaging with others. From the margins, these extreme feelings unfold into timid obsessions, forms of fetishistic desires of great tenderness.
Born in Paris in 1998, Eugène L’Homer graduated from the Hear (Haute École des arts du Rhin) in 2022. A performer, video artist and illustrator, since 2018 he has been performing as a drag king in cabarets across France, Germany, Belgium and Spain. He explores drag as a narrative grammar applicable to all art forms, capable of distorting reality and slipping into the nooks and crannies of the “uncanny valley.” He is interested in hyperbolic emotions and paradoxes that break free from social conventions and open up countless doors to potential fictions. In 2020 he confounded Kings France, a directory of French performers, following up with Kings d’Oré·e·s, a collective with which he organised workshops in which queer people in the Grand Est region could exchange and pool artistic knowledge and skills, from 2022 to 2025. Alongside his work as a performer, he is also the initiator of a video archive of queer performances entitled *Point Mauve*, which now contains over a thousand recordings. He is a beneficiary of the Plan Cabaret grant for 2025–2026.
Production
Credits
› Chef opérateur : Ben Grinand
› Assistant·e caméra : Suzanne Carré
› Ingénieure du son : Diana Dolce
› Ingénieur du son additionnel : Eliott Delagarde
› Chef·fe électricien.ne : Lou Gallay
› Assistant chef·fe électricien.ne : Leto Zanotti
› Assistante réalisateur : Laura Mathon
› Régisseuse générale : Eve Roussel
› Assistante régie : Marine Bréard
› Cuisine, catering : Elios Jacques, Matt Grimbert
› Acteur : Clenche, Pees, Baptiste Wolff, Saint Eugène
› Actrice, ligne de basse additionnelle : Yéti·E Perez
› Acteurice, auteurice-compositeurice-interprète chanson originale : Blanche De L'Os
› Montage : Théo Regley Scarazzati
› Étalonnage : Marie-Sarah Piron
› Vfx : Ben Grinand, Eugène L'Homer
› Montage son, bruitage : Benjamin Poilane
› Monteuse son additionnelle : Jülide Tüfenk
› Recorder bruitage : Thomas Rouvillain
› Mixage, mixeur chanson originale : Yannick Delmaire
› Recorder mixage : Luc Aureille
› Accompagnement artistique : Marie Losier
› Conseils additionnels scénario : Jean-Claude Taki
› Costumière : Anna Trouillot, Yuta Szatkowska
› Costumier : Malo Lecollinet
› Perruquier : Dizast’Hair, Clément Eriteau
› Sculpteur masque en bois : Boitafab, Clément Garcia
› Maquillage sfx : Isis Kartaf Krichel
› Décoratrice : Anna Trouillot, Marguerite Kalt
› Auteur-compositeur-interprète : Frankum
› Décor extérieur : Le Camping Au Pays De Hanau
› Décor de la maison du gérant : Aline Weiss
› Décor de la salle de concert : Alexandre Martin
