Ciel Sourdeau

Filmmaker, drag king, and music composer, Ciel Sourdeau explores trans narratives through his work. He has directed several short films, including Sad Cowboy Platonic Love (2021), which was screened at Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Solothurner Filmtage, and Sicilia Queer Film Festival, as well as Sky Rogers: Manager de Stars (2024), presented in competition at the Locarno Film Festival. He creates soundtracks for his films, composed of electronic keyboards, sound effects, and dubbed voices, conjuring fantastical and absurd worlds. Since 2021, he also experiments with drag king performance under the persona Cristal Couilles. Ciel expanded his artistic practice to dramaturgy, notably with Un Pied Dans la Merde, l'Autre dans les Étoiles (2024), co-written with Marlène Charpentié. His encounter with the performance and theater scene inspired him to imagine a project for a monstrous musical.