Stéphane Hueber-Blies & Nicolas Blies

Nicolas Blies and Stéphane Hueber-Blies (Blies brothers) are two French filmmakers and digital artists who work together.

In 2015, they conceptualized the documentary music transmedia Soundhunters in co-production with ARTE. Soundhunters was imagined to transform the world into an infinite musical instrument. The project is released in collaboration with many international artists including Jean Michel Jarre, Simonne Jones or Blixa Bargeld.

In 2016, the Blies brothers are invited to present their work at Lincoln Center during the New York Film Festival. The project is placed in 2016 under the high patronage of UNESCO.

In 2019, they wrote and directed their first feature film Zero Impunity about the impunity of sexual violence in wartime (Thessaloniki IFF, Annecy IFF, Moscow IFF, Mostra de Sao Paulo, Guadalajara IFF, Palm Springs IFF…). Hybridizing animation and live action, the film is considered one of the precursors in the field, particularly for its ability to « Figuring the unmentionable ».

In 2021, the film was nominated for the Trophées Francophones du Cinéma in the “Best Documentary” category.

In 2024, the Blies brothers released the digital art installation This Is My Heart (Ceci est mon coeur), about the reconciliation of a child with his body, mixing video-mapping and connected clothing. Following Zero Impunity, here again they hybridize animation and live action. For the first time, they also use a technique akin to “Spoken Word”. Combining Stéphane’s poetic writing with Nicolas’s musical creations, they explore a fusion of words and rhythms at the service of storytelling. The World Premiere took place during the 81st Venice International Film Festival.

The Blies brothers decided to pursue their research into Spoken word and visual hybridization in the development of their first feature-length film Maman Sopra.