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She is singer, composer, film ans video director, cameraman, actress in her own films, sound designer, painter, dj....
Born in France. Half Iraki.
After studies in music - the violin - and architecture in France,
Leila Albayaty started film School in Brussels.
She left after some months and directed a
documentary, “Vacances” (Holidays), a video log of a journey
throughout southern Europe with a caravan, but with no car.
In parallel to her work as a video artist, she also worked on
compositions for several performances and short films.
In 2006, she brought out an album of her own music,
“Dans le soleil”, on the french label Stupid Competitions;
a sensitive record, on the edge of pop, song writing and electronic
music in which one discovers a world tinted with cinematographic
atmospheres, at the same time melancholic, fragile, disturbing and
modern…
She then returned to film-making by shooting her first fiction
short film, VU, in Rome.
She performed the live concert of the movie with A. Paquotte. Coproduced by Recyclart.
Vu (Stempel Films) received a special mention from the Berlinale Shorts 2009.
Leila Albayaty lives and works between Brussels and Berlin.
She is currently working on her next album and on her next feature movie, a musical documentary-fiction.
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