Tessa Racine

Cinema

Photo : Alexandra Milsom

Tessa Racine graduated from the Ecole Nationale Louis Lumière. She worked:
. With François Truffaut for LE DERNIER METRO and VIVEMENT DIMANCHE.
. Then with Carlos Saura, Moshe Misrahi, Fernando Solanas, Jacques Braal, Charles Matton, Gabriel Axel.
. Not forgetting Jean-Marie Poiré for PAPY FAIT DE LA RESISTANCE and Martin Scorcese for KUNDUN...

Since 1994, Tessa has been making documentary films for the TV as a director: LA DOULEUR CHEZ L'ENFANT, FEMMES SAVANTES (ARTE), MARTIN VEYRON, L'ENFANCE DE L'ART (PLANETE), LES VOIX BOUDDHISTES (FRANCE 2) and a short LA PETITE GRAINE broadcasted at the Clermond-Ferrand festival.

Tessa made several documentaries for France 3 (TV):

  • LE CAMP FANTÔME (2005) DVD
    A French internment camp from 1940 to 1945, now a "ghost camp".
  • THÉRÈSE MENOT (2007) DVD
    An extraordinary woman from the twenties to nowadays, once in the Limousin Resistance. She was sent to Ravensbrück.
  • L’ENFANCE SAUVE (2008) DVD
    The story of Jewish children taking refuge in the Limoges area during World War II.
Since 2001, Tessa has been teaching cinema workshops for primary and secondary schools in Limousin. About 20 video projects, short films and documentaries were completed within the association:

... Meditation

What happens in silence and stillness?

Meditation practice opens up new horizons and possibilities that enable us to connect to the world and the present moment. We can thus stop a moment in our life and take the time to encounter ourselves in a totally novel way.

The meditation technique helps us explore the landscape of our mind in a gentle way, and every moment thus becomes an opportunity to give up the perpetual struggle against ourselves. If we persist patiently, thanks to the genuine friendliness that we cultivate towards ourselves, we become more and more available for others.

For the last ten years, meditation practice has deeply changed Tessa's life, from Paris to the countryside and from commercial film sets to teaching and making documentaries.

Teaching meditation

For several years, Tessa has been teaching meditation within Shambhala Training, and more specifically at the Dechen Chöling Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Centre near Limoges (France).