Marie-Françoise Plissart

Marie-Françoise Plissart is a Belgian photographer and film-maker born in 1954. 

Freelance since 1987, she lives and works in Brussels. 

Portraits, the relationship with the city and the Democratic Republic of the Congo feature strongly in all her work. 

For over thirty years, she has published numerous photographic works, including Kinshasa, Tales in the invisible city (Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2004). 

Her work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in Belgium and abroad, including a personal retrospective, A world without end, at the Antwerp Museum of Photography in 2008. 

She has directed several films in different formats, including L'Occupation des sols (26′, 2002), Kinshasa, le fleuve Congo (18′, 2003) and Atomium in/out (25′, 2006), which have been selected for international festivals (Lussas, IndieLisboa, Filmer à tout prix Bruxelles, FIFA Montréal, CinéMonterrey Mexique, Muhka Anvers, Courtisane Gent, etc.). 

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