Biography

Born in 1987 in Paris, Laura Taubman is a film director and editor. 

Laura has been developing and exploring documentary cinema in all its forms for over ten years. She works both in the sphere of social science research and in more experimental spheres, notably by directing and editing films for the world of dance.

Doctor in Social Anthropology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), her doctoral thesis, defended in December 2020, focused on the social implications of power and educational mandates within a self-managed school. This thesis brought forth the creation of a film, Pas Sage, an ethnography filmed over the span of a school year as well as a manuscript.

Laura also teaches writing, aesthetics, documentary staging and visual anthropology in film schools, at the University of Aix-Marseille and the University of Toulon.

Direction, Image, Sound & editing

Education

2021 - 2022, 2022 – 2023 & 2023 – 2024 University of Toulon

Lecturer in the module “New writing for the media and documentary film”, Professional Bachelor’s degree in Cinema and Television Professions

2022 – 2023. University of Aix-Marseille

Lecturer in Visual Anthropology within the License “Human Sciences, Anthropology, Ethnology”

2021, 2024. Mucem

Speaker during two ethno-museology workshops with Master students from the Ecole du Louvre: ethnographic collection and creation of two exhibition projects

2019 – 2020 et 2020 - 2021. Cinémagis

Cinemagis. Lecturer in writing, aesthetics and documentary staging

Studies

PhD in Social Anthropology and Ethnology

Centre Norbert Elias, EHESS
Marseille – PARIS
2014 – 2020

Master 2 Documentary professions

Université Aix-Marseille 2011 – 2012

Master 2 Anthropological Cinema

Université de Nanterre 2009 – 2010