Mariama Barry is a French creative producer and filmmaker whose work explores the permeability between space, memory, and perception. A graduate with a Master’s degree in Film from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, she focused her research on time and space in Alejandro Jodorowsky's cinema, an inquiry that continues to shape her artistic vision. She is also part of the selection committee for international film festivals, including the AFI Fest in Los Angeles.

 

Through her photographic practice, marked by a raw and minimalist aesthetic, she captures the poetic density of places, revealing how space can carry intimate narratives. This sensitivity extends into her cinematic work, where the locations often becomes characters in the story. 

 

In her short film Cuuso, currently in development, she portrays the existential journey of a young Parisian struggling with hallucinatory visions. Working with contrasting textures and a fragmented narrative, she examines contemporary alienation, blending reality and imagination in a sensory immersion into the psyche. Her feature film Le Vieil Homme et la Sirène (The Old Man & The Siren), a psychological thriller, continues this exploration through the story of a philosopher whose retreat in the South of France becomes the stage for a surreal confrontation with his deepest obsessions.

 

Mariama thus constructs a unique and engaging realm that invites viewers to explore the unseen depths of human emotions, and where the search for meaning confronts the mysteries of space and time.