Photo: Marion Chuniaud & Ruben Naranjo
Marion Chuniaud
Biography
Marion’s practice is rooted at the intersection of cinema and the exploration of the body in movement. She studied international communication at UQAM before training in documentary filmmaking at INIS. She co-directed Statu Quo (2020) and Origen (2025), an experimental docu-dance short film inspired by Japanese butoh and the work of choreographer Yesenia Fuentes. Her films have been presented at various international festivals, including Dresden, VIFF, Regard, FIFA, and Interfilm Berlin.
She is currently developing two new dance films in co-production and beginning to explore more personal subjects, focusing on the aesthetic and political plurality of bodies, as well as the importance of real-time participatory processes.
By joining BIG BANG #17, Marion hopes to deepen her relationship with art and expand her creative methodology.
Artistic approach
I am interested in narrative forms that exist at the crossroads of impact cinema, research, and art. The body in movement, memory, social fabric, and the feeling of belonging have always inspired me and continue to ground me in my community roots, both here and elsewhere. I come from a large French-Canadian family and have been based in Montréal since 2015.
My experiences in community work, cinema, and later dance gradually revealed themselves to me as collective experiences. Through dance groups and my first films, I explore a shared energy that moves beyond the individual and helps me build trust. My work finds meaning in sharing these experiences with an audience, but also in recognizing the care, attention, and collaborative processes that make them possible.
My nonlinear professional path, shaped in part by immigration, has led me to renegotiate my many senses of belonging: between France and Québec, but also between the different worlds and communities I seek to bring into conversation. Whether through dance films, documentary projects, or large-scale participatory creations such as O-Tisserandes and Nuit Chorale, this fragmented back-and-forth — always held in the co-presence of the individual and the collective — continues to nourish my work. It is a way of staying in motion and creating spaces of encounter and care, with oneself and with others.
My first solo exploration for Big Bang returns to this same obsession: searching, in my heart and in my body, for how to hold this promise of love — within oneself and with others.