​b. 1978 — Lives & works in Paris, Europa

Composer & multi-instrumentalist, photographer & visual artist, Frédéric D. Oberland finds himself at the crossroads of image and sound, favoring a synesthetic approach. A former student at La Fémis film school, he began making experimental artistic films in Super8 and video at the beginning of the 2000s.. His sonic and visual works articulate different modes of narration, combining the raw character of the documentary form with the transfigured reality of myth and poetry, allowing him to question notions such as the sacred, the monstrous, the fraternity, while at the same time returning to the political news of the present. Attentive to the pulse of the body, his work is willingly itinerant, modulating between the ripples of dreams, watching the points of incandescence and the bursts of electricity that act as revelations of our presence in the world, here and now, its mystery and its blowup..

For over ten years, Frédéric D. Oberland has been leading the Oiseaux-Tempête collective, somewhere between avant-rock and free jazz, repetitive music and electronics. A founding member of the unclassifiable groups FOUDRE!, Le Réveil des Tropiques & FareWell Poetry, he's also performing solo and composing soundtracks for cinema and contemporary art. He has collaborated with a wide range of talents including versatile musicians (Irena Z. Tomazin, Mondkopf, Saåad, ​Radwan Ghazi Moumneh / Jerusalem In My Heart, Grégory Dargent, Tony Elieh, Wassim Halal, Christine Ott, Stéphane Pigneul, Adrien Kanter, Virus2020, Aya Metwalli, Charbel Haber, Sharif Sehnaoui, Gareth Davis, Richard Knox, Gaspar Claus, Bérangère Maximin, Eat Gas, Colin Johnco), film & video makers (Ala Eddine Slim, Camille Degeye, Grégoire Couvert & Grégoire Orio, Faye Formisano, Araceli Lemos, Philomène de Broqua, Augustin Gimel, Ho Tzu Nyen, François-Xavier Drouet), photographers & visual artists (David Fathi, Fanny Béguély, Gael Bonnefon, Stéphane Charpentier & Temps Zéro,​ Marco Godinho, ​Malek Gnaoui), writers & poets (Christophe Manon, Mathilde Girard, G.W.Sok, Jayne Amara Ross, Hugues Jallon).

Regularly invited at international contemporary music festivals & venues (Irtijal, Roadburn, Sonica, Le Guess Who?, UH Fest, Le Botanique, Sailing Stones, La Station-Gare des Mines, Petit Bain, Transmissions, Casa Del Popolo, Cafe Oto, Urban Spree), film festivals (Festival du Court-Métrage Clermont-Ferrand, Gabes Cinema Fen, IFFR Rotterdam, Festival Cinéma du Réel, Festival Travelling Rennes, Carte Blanche at La Cinémathèque Française Paris, La Casa Encendida Madrid) and photography / contemporary art centers (Labanque Béthune, Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles, Athens Photo Festival, le BAL Paris, Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs Bordeaux, Photo Saint-Germain Paris, Institut pour la Photographie Lille, Les Tanneries Amilly), his visual and musical contributions have been released on labels & publishing houses such as Sub Rosa, Sun/Sun, NAHAL Recordings, ZamZamRec, Hallow Ground, IIKKI, Halogénure, Gizeh Records, Miasmah, Constellation, Flau, Hylé Tapes, Editions Le Mulet, Music Fear Satan, Les Inaperçus, Ruptured, Gazzar(r)a/VoxxoV, Consouling Sounds.

Frédéric D. Oberland is co-curating since 2018 the avant-garde label NAHAL Recordings. In 2022/2023, he is part of Shape + Platform for innovative music and audiovisual art / Creative Europe program. Artist in residence 2024/2025 at La Kabine - Centre de l'Image / Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation in Arles, he is working with Céline Pévrier and Sun/Sun on a first monographic book covering ten years of psychedelic wanderings and visual premonitions in 35mm and Super8,
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