Quentin L'helgoualc'h
Directing
Biography
Quentin L’helgoualc’h develops an artistic practice that blends sculpture, film, drawing, and installation. Alongside his artistic research, he dedicates himself to works conceived and created with the collective In extremis. Following a first short film, Marlowe Drive (2017), he directed a documentary film immersed in the virtual spaces of the video game DayZ, in collaboration with video artists Ekiem Barbier and Guilhem Causse: Knit’s Island (2023). Together, they create a film within this virtual world, presenting themselves to the players as a real documentary crew: direct cinema shooting, tracking shots, interviews, shot/reverse shot… The perilous mission of the three directors takes the shape of an investigation into the virtualization of our lives, and into the limits and possibilities of a metaverse.
Known For
Somewhere on the internet is a land where communities pretend to live out a survivalist fiction. The avatars of the directors of Knit’s Island spent 963 hours there, creating a fascinating film resulting from their encounter with these communities. The “players” reveal their fears and fantasies, in an at times unsettling blurring of the real and the virtual.
Knit's Island
Ekiem Barbier and Guilhem Causse offer a unique experience to Victor Assié, a young actor questioning the meaning of his profession: to explore an online simulation of daily life as an avatar and meet its users, while playing his own role. Through his complicated but hilarious peregrinations, he discovers a new yet familiar world.
In Real Life
Marlowe Drive is an experimental film that explores the field of video games as a context for making a documentary. A director, Adam Kesher, from David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive, lands in another fictional Los Angeles.
Marlowe Drive
Lost in the midst of a universal internet, visitors wander through a virtual museum, dressed in bizarre avatars. In this psychedelic-tinged documentary, it is through the perplexed gaze of a fish who arrived there by chance while surfing the internet that the directors lift the veil on the visitors' imaginations and their intimate vision of art and museum space.
Normal Planet
For one night, Kika collects audio recordings of orgasms. The acoustic phenomena generated by this hypnotic trance reveal the form that had remained hidden in the shadows.