Elen Sylla Grollimund is a photographer, video maker and animator based in Brussels. She studied photography at Accademia di Belle Arti (LABA) in Brescia (Italy) and then worked in Paris as a photographer and videomaker with several music artists. After moving to Brussels, in 2019 she joined the collective Atelier Graphoui, where she leads experimental and animation workshops and directs collective films like Mouvement d'identité (2019), Et la lumière fût et autres illuminations (2019), Ceci n'est pas une fiction (2019), Le Fil(M)agique (2019), 7 jours sur 7 ( Triennale de Louvain La Neuve, 2021). Villa Madjo is her first short documentary.