Pierre-Alain Giraud — Works & collaborations
Playing with Fire
Mixed reality with Yuja Wang · Philharmonie de Paris · Immersive Competition, Cannes 2026 · Southbank Centre · Lincoln Center 2027
Noire
Augmented reality, with Tania de Montaigne and Stéphane Foenkinos · Best Immersive Work, Cannes 2024
Victimhood — video for Björk
Animated film with Gabríela Friðriksdóttir · Cornucopia tour · 2023
Une cabine à soi
Feature film with Anne Brochet · Angoulême Film Festival 2025 · France 3
Solastalgia
Augmented-reality installation with Antoine Viviani · Sundance 2020
The Empire of Lights
Short film with Moon So-Ri · shot in Korea · 2019
Rêve de mouette
Feature film with Anne Brochet · Angoulême Film Festival 2023
AIŌN
Symphony by Anna Thorvaldsdóttir · films with Valdimar Jóhannsson · Gothenburg Concert Hall, 2019
Theatre with Arthur Nauzyciel
Stage films — The Empire of Lights, La Dame aux camélias, The Screens, Scenes from a Marriage
Öraevi & Sigur Rós
Medium-length film with Erna Ómarsdóttir · music by Sigur Rós · 2018
Animations with Gabríela Friðriksdóttir
Crepusculum, The Inner Life of a Hay Bale, Dies Irae, Cabin Fever, Victimhood
Sacrifice
With Gabríela Friðriksdóttir · triptych alongside Matthew Barney and Ragnar Kjartansson · 2017
With Anne Brochet
Editing, video & sound — four projects, 2010 → 2022
Wide Slumber
Chamber opera by Valgeir Sigurðsson · animation & video · Reykjavik 2014
Theatre with Marianne Badrichani
Theatre in London — Blue Beard, Trois Ruptures, Dinner at the Smith’s
Music videos & music films
Winter Sleep, EEATT, Le Papillon Noir · Valgeir Sigurðsson, Michael Wookey…
Director of photography
A primera hora, Malihue, Only Sound Remains, Une cabine à soi, Rêve de mouette
Editor
In Limbo, Brochet… comme le poisson, Les Enfants des mille jours, Only Sound Remains…
Producer & script adviser
Dream of Belonging, Symphonie des profondeurs, Chronica
Student films
A Portrait of You · In Between · London Film School, 2009
Full filmography
Filmography
Director
Playing with Fire — Philharmonie de Paris, 2025–2026 · Southbank Centre, 2026–2027
Une cabine à soi, with Anne Brochet — France 3, 2025
Victimhood, video for Björk — Novaya, 2023
Noire — Novaya, FFE, Centre Pompidou, 2023
Rêve de Mouette, with Anne Brochet — Novaya, 2023 · Angoulême Film Festival
Le Papillon Noir — Heliox Films, 2021
Solastalgia, with Antoine Viviani — Providences, 2020 · Sundance
The Empire of Lights — Providences, 2019
Öraevi & Sigur Rós — Providences, 2018
Sacrifice — Icelandic Dance Company & Southbank Centre, 2017
Everything Everywhere All The Time — Bedroom Community, 2011
Winter Sleep — Bedroom Community, 2010
A Portrait of You — London Film School, 2009 · audience award (film schools), Les Arcs Film Festival
In Between, with Javier Correa — London Film School, 2009 · Student films page
Editing / cinematography
Mes Frères — TNB, 2021
In Limbo, by Antoine Viviani — Arte / Providences, 2015
Brochet… comme le poisson, by Anne Brochet — Arte, 2013
Les Enfants des 1000 jours — ISKRA, 2013
A Primera Hora, by Javier Correa — Chile, 2012
Only Sound Remains, by Arash Ashtiani — BAFTA nominee, 2010
Films for the stage
Scenes from a Marriage, dir. Arthur Nauzyciel — TNB, 2026
The Screens, dir. Arthur Nauzyciel — 2024
Noire, directed by Stéphane Foenkinos — Théâtre du Rond-Point, 2020
Aion — Gothenburg Concert Hall · Harpa, Reykjavik, 2019
La Dame aux Camélias, dir. Arthur Nauzyciel — TNB, 2019
The Empire of Lights — National Theater of Korea, Seoul, 2016
Wide Slumber — Tjarnarbíó, Iceland, 2014
Theatre & music
La Docteure, co-written with Marianne Badrichani — 2021
La Dame aux Camélias, co-author of the adaptation — TNB, 2019
Music videos: Valgeir Sigurðsson, Sigur Rós, Nico Muhly, Sam Amidon, Ben Frost, Ólöf Arnalds…
Clarinet & bass clarinet — Angil & The Hiddentracks, Michael Wookey