Benjamin Goubet was born in 1995. He graduated from HEAD - Geneva in 2021, and lives and works between Geneva and Paris.
His film work explores the melancholy of cities, portraying nihilistic youths doomed to an inescapable fate. Within this melancholy vision of modernity, he infuses the imagination produced by his generation, bringing the poetic and the fantastic into suffocatingly realistic worlds. In this way, he achieves a rare blend of formalism and emotion. He works on waiting rather than action, using the time of inaction to capture presences.
His film Anabase (2021) has attracted attention at a number of international festivals, including Winterthur, Côté Court and San Sebastian IFF, where it won a special mention from the jury.
He is currently developing a digital film project, SkyGirls, which won the Upcoming Lab prize at the Solothurn Film Festival.