Sébastien is a French writer and videographer. Born and raised in Marseille in the south of France, he has been living in Japan since 2022. He has written for several international media outlets, mainly about Japan, art, and cinema.
Cherry pie, eerie silence, and Japan couldn’t look away again.
Hideaki Anno’s reboot turns a childhood icon into existential drama.
The animator that finds freedom in distortion.
Postwar trauma and pop culture collide in Tanaami’s vivid dreamscape.
Some vanish from shame, others from life, all chasing silence somewhere.
Anno’s DV masterpiece exposes raw 90s youth angst and desire.
The brutal retaliation for a film that mocked the Yakuza’s power.