Current project
With Icare B., short film, approx. 35 min
In the 19th century, under the influence of Paris, France saw the emergence of a new form of leisure, previously reserved for the elite. The pleasure of a stroll in the park, the contemplation of domesticated nature, organized especially for the human eye, became accessible to all: this was the birth of public gardens.
Two centuries later, at the beginning of the 21st century, a pandemic revealed the gradual desertion of these gardens. In the shadow of this phenomenon, other forms of nature appeared, like palliatives: the virtual worlds of video games explored the past and the future, staging impossible worlds and transporting us to the confines of a nature that was both hostile and programmed. A promise that gardens can no longer fulfill. For this change in habits strangely echoes another metamorphosis: that of our very environment, of the nature we have tried so hard to domesticate, and which appears increasingly hostile.
Through the mythographic tale of a young girl searching for a mysterious prophet in a deserted garden-world, the film documents this change in our societies and questions what these new digital pastimes say about our relationship with a collapsing nature.
