Knit’s Island
Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L'helgoualc'h
CineCiutat
06.10 - 19:30 | 07.10 - 17:15
SYNOPSIS
The three directors engage in online video games to investigate what life is like in that unknown land. They become part of a post-apocalyptic society that is chillingly plausible. They navigate its spaces, withstand attacks, and meet other players, delving into the concerns, anxieties, and desires that lie behind their nicknames.
Premiere in the Balearic Islands. With the presence of the directors and the producer.
Why must you see it?
Ekiem, Guilhem, and Quentin transform themselves into video game characters to make a film. In a survival game set in an infinite territory, they shoot questions with their camera in an attempt to understand what drives players into such a long and addictive virtual immersion. Their quest, filled with adventures, surprises, friendships – and also violence -, allows them to explore the life of an online planet, achieving an impressive ethnographic portrait of the human being in the 21st century. Their massive virtual survey is, at the same time, a chronicle of a parallel world.
Miquel M. Freixas
Ekiem Barbier
Born in Toulouse in 1993, Ekiem Barbier is an author, a filmmaker and a musician. In 2012 he directed several short films, fiction and animation, for which he composed the music. He then entered the School of Fine Arts of Montpellier. There in 2015 he joined the collective In Extremis with whom he contributed to several exhibitions. In 2017 Ekiem got his DNSEP (Master Degree in Plastic Expression). The same year, he became interested in documentary and made Anent(a 42-minute documentary shot in the upper Amazon of Ecuador), and Marlowe Drive (34-minute film). He continues his video research with a particular interest in a sensitive dimension of anthropology and experimentation through a poetic and digital lens. Ekiem currently lives and works in Marseille.
Guilhem Causse
Born in Narbonne in 1993, Guilhem Causse entered the School of Fine Arts of Montpellier in 2012. There he developed a work revolving around the relationship between image and sound, in the form of installations and video projections, halfway between cinema, performance and contemporary art. He is fascinated by collapsology and interested in recording natural and meteorological phenomena, which he then combines with virtual images in timeless spaces where the viewer is invited to settle. In 2017 he got his DNSEP (Master Degree in Plastic Expression) and developed his research around the film Solaris, which he declined in a series of video and sound works, in the form of hypnotic and immersive installations.
Quentin L'helgoualc'h
Born in Lyon in 1992, Quentin L’helgoualc’h got a DNSEP (Master degree in Plastic Expression) at the School of Fine Arts of Montpellier in 2017. Then in 2018 he joined the Post-graduate Art program. He developed a plastic work mixing several mediums, such as sculpture, video, and drawing. In 2017 he directed Marlowe Drive, a documentary immersed in the virtual world, in collaboration with Ekiem Barbier and Guilhem Causse. In 2019 and 2020 he made two video pieces: Between Empty Things and Cristaux Liquides, which combine live action and 3D animation, to deal with the thin relationship to. digital spaces. In 2021 he joined the Fresnoy, the National Studio of Contemporary Arts, where he directed the fiction film Les Neige sélectriques.
Year: 2023
Country: France
Length: 95 min
Language: English, French
Subtitles: Spanish
Direction and Screenplay: Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L'helgoualc'h
Production: Les Films Invisibles
Cinematography: Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L'helgoualc'h
Editor: Nicolas Bancilhon
Sound Design & Mix: Mathieu Farnarier
Composers: Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Marc Siffert
