Dominique Margot travelled for several years as a light and video artist with the French rock circus Archaos before completing five years of studies in film directing at the Zurich Film School ZHdK in 1999. She has directed several documentary films, including La longueur et la largeur du ciel, Toumast, guitars and kalachnikovs, Looking Like My Mother and Zoom on circus, which have received numerous awards. Alongside her work as a filmmaker, she is co director of the transmedia project Intopolitiks. Her next feature documentary, Le grand show, is currently in development.
