With a background steeped in philosophy, art history and cinema, Marguerite de Bourgoing is a French filmmaker whose work maps the DNA of cultural movements.
In 2025, she joined the Villa Albertine in New Orleans to research Edmond Dédé, the first known American composer of color to produce a grand opera, written while exiled in France. She is directing a film about his life.
In 2023 she created and produced for PBS web series Hip-Hop & the Metaverse which won a Golden Mike Award and earned Los Angeles Press Award and Emmy nominations.
Her independent documentary IT'S YOURS: Hip-Hop & the Internet premiered in the US at the Pan-African Film Festival of Los Angeles in 2020, toured internationally and was acquired by ARTE in 2021. It now streams on multiple platforms including Tubi, Prime, and Apple TV. Her first feature, THE WORLD IS YOURS, premiered on France Télévisions in 2014.
In 2009 at the height of the blog era, she established herself in Los Angeles to study audiences online. A pioneer of YouTube music storytelling with LA Stereo TV, she captured Kendrick Lamar's first show, did early interviews of Issa Rae, Action Bronson and Future and profiled Odd Future, the Internet and Vince Staples.
She began her career at the Cinémathèque de la danse in Paris under the mentorship of Magnum photographer Marc Riboud, before moving to London to work in television production. Marguerite studied at the Sorbonne, Oxford, and USC.
Filming Curren$y in 2010 in Pomona photo by Kasey Stokes