Olivier Morel

While creating radio documentaries and working as a community organizer, he pursued a master's and post-master's degree in social sciences at the University of Provence (Aix-en-Provence, France) under the supervision of Bruno Etienne and Mustapha Khayati. He then studied at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, where he attended Cornelius Castoriadis’s.[1] seminars as well as those of Jacques Derrida who has had a significant influence on his work. At the Collège International de Philosophie he attended Hélène Cixous’s seminar and has devoted several scholarly papers to this writer, playwright and thinker.[2] He defended his doctoral dissertation (Ph.D.) at the University of Paris 8 in 2011 under the direction of Bruno Clément and is currently appointed as an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame. After having coauthored several films he completed his first feature nonfiction film titled On the Bridge (ARTE-TV “Grand Format,” France, Germany, USA, 2011[3]). In On the Bridge young female and male soldiers of the US military give account of the crimes perpetrated during the war in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom) through the prism of the severe posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that they endured,.[4][5] The film was awarded the Second Jury Prize at the Baghdad International Film Festival (Iraq) in 2013. His third feature-length film explores Hélène Cixous’s poetic endeavors as well as her current activity as a “house playwright” of the Théâtre du Soleil, founded by Ariane Mnouchkine.

• On the Bridge (L'Âme en sang, Amerikas Verletzte Seelen), 97 minutes, Zadig Productions, ARTE Grand Format, 2011.[6]
• Germany as Told by Christoph Hein, Vladimir Kaminer, Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Bernhard Schlink, 55 minutes, Seconde Vague Productions [archive], ARTE, 2013,.[7][8][9]
• Ever, Rêve, Hélène Cixous, 118 minutes, Zadig Productions, (in production).

• Profils 14-18 [archive], TV5 Monde, in collaboration with Didier Pazery and Claude Vittiglio.

• Visages de la Grande Guerre, Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1998.
• Berlin Légendes ou la Mémoire des Décombres, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, Paris, 2014.[10]
• Revenants, Futuropolis-Gallimard, drawings by Maël, Foreword by Marc Crépon, chair of the Philosophy Department of the École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France), 2013,;[11][12][13][14] Die Rückkehrer (German trans.), Carlsen Verlag 2014 ; Walking Wounded (English trans.),[15] NBM publishing, New York, 2015,.[16][17][18]

• Between Listening and Telling, Paris (France) City Hall, January 25-March 12, 2005, filmed testimonies of Holocaust survivors,[19] installation directed by Esther Shalev-Gerz, MK2-History (produced by Martine Saada), Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris), Paris City. The exhibit also took place in the Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, 2010 ; at the MCBA, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2012 ; at the Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, 2013 ; at La Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal, Canada, 2014 ; at Wasserman Projects, Detroit, USA, 2016[20]
• Visages de la Grande Guerre (Faces of the Great War), Douaumont Ossuary (Verdun, France),[21] permanent exhibit inaugurated on November 11, 2008 (with Didier Pazery, photographer).
• Vestiges et Visages de la Grande Guerre (Faces and Remains of the Great War),[22] Great East Train Station, Paris, France, June 23-November 30, 2014 (with Didier Pazery, photographer).
• Profils 14-18 (Profiles 14-18),[23] Museum of the Great War (Musée de la Grande Guerre), Meaux, France, June 2-December 2, 2018 (with Didier Pazery, photographer).