Yannik Ruault | Official

Filmography

Creative Approach

My creative approach merges precise cinematic design with intuitive discovery. Each project is shaped through the dialogue between image, duration, sound, performance, and space, with particular attention to transitions between emotional states. The result is immersive cinema, where atmosphere and embodied presence guide the audience inward, toward subtle psychological and sensory transformation.

"Through atmosphere, rhythm, silence, and transformation, my films explore the unstable frontier between presence, memory, and identity"

SILHOUETTES
Experimental Short Film | 2025 | 14 mins

SYNOPSIS: Since she’s gone, the consul tries to remember her, their tender memories, a poem by Eluard, a 3D film session, a kung-fu. session... fading like retinal prints.

CAST: Laura Bastianini, Yannik Ruault.

SOUNDTRACK: Herve Girardin.

SNOWGLOBES
Experimental Fantasy Feature Film | 2021 | 90 mins

SYNOPSIS: Once upon a time, in an English house with a fairy garden, a strange boy living isolated with three female scientists and an Artificial Intelligence.

CAST: Joanna Vinogradoff, Noemie Glairacq, Nathan Biscar, Laura Bastianini, Frederique Hardy, Christian Cazenave, Yannik Ruault, Celine Glairacq.

SOUNDTRACK: James Bell.

ABRAHADABRA
Experimental Fiction Feature Film | 2017 | 64 mins

SYNOPSIS
On a ranch-style farm in south west of France, Jane Cavalieri, 14, lives protected by the love of her father Ludovic and his grandfather Granda-di-dou ("Papifou" in French). The sudden death of her father, in a terrorist attack, plunges Jane into a waking dream.
CAST: Noemie Glairacq, Jean-Pierre Massat, Nicolas Dubaele, Christian Cazenave, Frederik Prill, Philippe Ascaso.

SOUNDTRACK: Antoine Malinaud.

REFLETS DANS L'OEIL DU CHAT
Experimental Short Film | 2012 | 19 mins

SYNOPSIS: Two children visit a painter to learn drawing. When they enter the house of the Master, under the eye of the cat Balthus, they also enter his art.

CAST: Florianne Coupu, Marc Laburthe, Jean-Pierre Massat, Yannik Ruault.

SOUNDTRACK: Marc Marder.