Clémence Hébert is a filmmaker, trained in directing at INSAS in Brussels and in anthropology at UCLouvain. Based on long-term fieldwork, her films seek forms of decentring in both gaze and narrative: from autobiography (Le bateau du père, Cinéma du Réel, 2010) to the worlds of psychiatry (La porte ouverte, 2014; Drôle de pays, 2014; Kev, 2018 — Visions du Réel, IFFR, Tënk).

She is currently developing projects at the crossroads of documentary cinema, anthropology and science, focusing on the possibility of life elsewhere, the origins of life, scientific narratives and contemporary imaginaries. A FRArt-FNRS laureate, she is currently conducting an arts and sciences research project based on the mineralogy collection of the ULB.