Director
Adrian Lev Bourliot
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Adrian Lev Bourliot is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores how meaning is constructed, removed, and reinterpreted across both images and lived experience.
Across painting, photography, and film, his practice is rooted in a shared approach: reducing imposed narrative in order to create space for interpretation. In his visual work, this takes the form of asemic writing and image systems that resist fixed meaning. In his films, it translates into an observational method that avoids interviews and explanation, allowing situations to unfold without imposed structure.
Originally from Houston, he developed his filmmaking practice between Texas and Paris after formal studies in film, receiving a Texas Emmy Award for broadcast directing at the age of seventeen.
Rather than imposing conclusions, his work frames situations in ways that allow meaning to emerge through proximity, duration, and personal interpretation.
This approach extends into his current documentary project, POST HUMAN, developed through long-term immersion in alternative communities and transitional environments. There, the same principles apply: identities, systems, and relationships are not defined in advance, but revealed through lived experience.
Working across residencies and shifting environments, Bourliot treats both art-making and filmmaking as processes of inhabiting uncertainty—where structure dissolves and new forms begin to take shape.
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SUPPORT THE PROJECT
POST HUMAN has completed its first embedded filming phase, with over 180 hours of documentary footage and multiple principal participants.
The project is now entering an important stage of editorial development, festival preparation, and strategic financing discussions.
Current work is focused on shaping the first festival-ready sizzle cut and development package, while conversations continue with potential partners regarding the next stage of production and long-form distribution.
At this time, the project remains independently led.
We are currently seeking aligned producers and financing partners for ongoing discussions regarding the future development and financing of the project.
All conversations are centered on finding collaborators whose values align with the ethical, editorial, and artistic vision of the work.
Development will continue during an upcoming artist residency in Obermehler, Germany, where the project’s formal, editorial, and technical needs will continue to be assessed.
A core principle of POST HUMAN is that authorship must be rigorously challenged.
For this reason, future editorial development and distribution are intended to be built alongside independent editorial collaboration, as well as psychological and ethical review processes, ensuring that vulnerability, representation, and emotional impact are handled with care and responsibility.
Independent support helps sustain the project during this development phase and allows the work to continue with stability and autonomy while aligned producing partners are identified.
For producing, financing, collaborations, or private preview access to the current sizzle cut, please contact directly:
contact@levbourliot.com