Julie Gautier

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Julie Gautier (born on November 19, 1979 in Saint-Louis , La Réunion ) is a French apnea diver , dancer and filmmaker .

Life

Gautier is the daughter of a spear fisherman who hunted while diving and was introduced to diving without aids at an early age. Sporty apnea diving began when she was 18 years old.

With a depth of 68 meters, Gautier is the French record holder in diving with constant weight, i.e. without additional weight or other aids. In terms of sport, she also competed for the French team at the Apnea World Championship. According to her own statements, she never felt particularly comfortable with purely sporty diving, it gave her a lot more fulfillment just to catch fish underwater and to discover the underwater world. She was best known for her short films, some of which she shot with her husband Guillaume Néry .

She became known with the film Free Fall from 2010. It shows how Nery steps underwater to the edge of Dean's Blue Hole and then drops into it. Gautier made the film. She dived herself without any equipment. The video spread throughout the world and got over 30 million views on YouTube alone. Néry became known worldwide through the film. For Gautier, the film meant the realization that she could do something else with her apnea talent than taking part in competitions and she began to concentrate on artistic work.

More videos with Nery followed. While the first films with Nery were essentially his projects and she worked on the camera, she wrote, produced and directed later productions herself. For the mainstream, she worked with Naughty Boy and Beyonce and co-produced their video clip for the song Runnin (lose it all). This film had over 250 million views. The clip plays underwater again, Nery was back as an actor. Gautier shot again in her usual way without diving equipment, only with a camera. However, she also worked here with a cameraman who was equipped with diving equipment and recorded certain sequences.

In 2018 she appeared in front of the camera for the first time in her own project. In Ama she shows a dance routine lasting several minutes in the Y-40 , the deepest swimming pool in the world. The film, named after the Japanese apnea shell divers , was shown for the first time on International Women's Day 2018. Freedivers and others organized 40 performances worldwide from France to Polynesia, Russia, China, Thailand and Samoa in cinemas, on beaches and in bars.

In her style, she relies on dream-like sequences. It's not about making a pure documentary - the water creates a magical, unfamiliar environment, while at the same time the viewer should forget that it is playing underwater.

Gautier lives in Nice. She and her husband have been running the production company Les Films Engloutis since 2012 and have a daughter who was born in 2012.

Records

  • 2007: Apnea diving with constant weight. French record 65 meters.
  • 2008: Apnea diving with constant weight. French record 68 meters.

Filmography

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d e Julie Gautier: Freediving in poetry - panthalassa . In: panthalassa . April 10, 2018 ( panthalassa.org [accessed August 2, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Apnée: Team World Championship 2008 - Plongeur.com. Retrieved August 2, 2018 (French).
  3. ↑ Philip Bauer: French with depth. Der Standard, April 10, 2014, accessed August 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gautier, Julie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French apnea diver, dancer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 19th November 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Louis , Reunion Island