White Sheep, Black Dream

In 2013 Alexandre Humbert graduated from Contextual Design with White Sheep, Black Dream, an ironic film about how to discipline people into becoming better black sheep, which, in his view, in turn linked to the disciplining essence of design. "Instagram was just starting, it was a time when people were working out how to be the other. I wasn’t designing a chair, but I was designing a way of sitting.”

“Designing is not only about objects. It is also about writing a story. Instead of using objects as inspiration for my own design, I used the objects as characters in my story."

Ever since, Alexandre Humbert has continued as a filmmaker. He has f.i. created a range of ‘object interviews’ in which designs converse with each other regarding their existence. In his 2019 Films as Objects video he explores the intimate relationship between humans and objects with installations, fictions and experimentals films. His work has been screened internationally and he collaborated with various artists, designers, and cultural institutions, such as Åbäke, Studio Makkink & Bey, EventArchitectuur, Design Museum Gent, Design Academy Eindhoven, Martino Gamper, Noam Toran, LUMA Arles, Brakke Grond, Zuiderzee Museum, MUDAM Luxembourg, Eric Van Hove.