Thomas Lacoste was born in Bordeaux in 1972. He is a filmmaker, editor and essayist. For more than 25 years, he has been working to connect different disciplines, schools of critical thought and contemporary creation around the world. Since 2007, he has directed eight feature films and more than one hundred fifty film interviews. In 2012, his work was the subject of a DVD box set, Penser critique, Kit de survie éthique et politique pour situations de crise(s), bringing together 47 of his film interviews, published by the Éditions Montparnasse and a retrospective of all his feature films at the cinema le Reflet Médicis (Paris).