INFLUENCE OF MARS employs film-making to reveal hidden instinctual behavior. The filmmaker asks her ten year old son, Harvey, about his arsenal of weapons, many of which are intended for other use; the handle of a back brush, juggling batons, and a plastic cricket stump. Despite his enthusiasm for maiming and killing, Harvey has no idea why we have wars.… >>>
Young soldiers from previous wars are seen roaming the woods aimlessly. They wear the uniforms of the Soviet troops, the Wehrmacht or the American military forces during the Vietnam war. In interviews, they share war memories and testimonies they can’t possibly have experienced themselves, but which have taken root in their memory. A friction between imagination and reality arises. Thus unfolds the intrinsic relationship between storytelling, memory and history. How forming memories is subject to fictionalization. Just as history is a process of creative storytelling, a subjective construction.… >>>
DÉPLOIEMENTS deals with the State forces practice of control, both in the air and on the ground and draws a parallel between two types of simulations. On one side, the aerobatic demonstration team of the French Air Force is rehearsing the choreography through a series of hand gestures and a precise scripted language. On the other side, a scenario of a protest is simulated with a crowd control training software created by a private company for Police training purpose in urban environments, here in a fictional city. The video highlights the state’s strategies of occupation and the effect it has on the human body and its ability to move.… >>>
A futuristic computer world: Two children "learning through play", in a series of subtly aggressive games. They have, however, a secret hiding place, where they reclaim innocent play for themselves as a respite from their harsh training regime. They are finally 'unparented' and released upon the world. An observation on the gamification of work, and the instrumentalization of play in order to teach.… >>>
OPERATION JANE WALK is based on the dystopian multiplayer shooter “Tom Clancy’s: The Division”. In this work, the game’s digital war zone is humorously and artistically appropriated. Bound by the rules of the games software, the militaristic environment is being re-used for a pacifistic city tour. The urban flâneurs avoid the combats whenever possible and become peaceful tourists of a digital world, which is a detailed replica of Midtown Manhattan. While walking through the post-apocalyptic city, issues such as architecture history, urbanism and the game developer’s interventions into the urban fabric are being discussed.… >>>