COMPETITION
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Knit's Island, l'île sans fin
Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L'helgoualc'h
2023 - France - 1h35
Screenings :
wednesday 24 - 11:00 am - 400 Coups - 5 - presented and followed by a debate with the film directors
thursday 25 - 6:00 pm - 400 Coups - 6
Somewhere on the internet, there is a space of 250 square kilometres in which individuals gather in a community to simulate a survivalist fiction. Under the guise of avatars, a film crew enters this place and makes contact with the “locals”. This mysterious, post-apocalyptic rural landscape is revealed as a meeting place, where stories, ideas and friendships are shared. Slowly the players drop their masks to reveal their realities, their daily lives, their relationships of love and friendship. Mixing their memories of the game with the stories of their real lives, this group will take us on a tour of the boundaries of the internet. By going to the edge of the game, in search of the limits of this place, the film explores the first steps of the virtualization of our lives, and questions the future of our world.
Guilhem Causse, Ekiem Barbier and Quentin L'helgoualc'h met at Art School in Montpellier. In 2017, they made Marlowe Drive (FIFIB, Brive), a medium-length film made up solely of images from video games. Knit's Island is their first feature film.
CAST AND CREW
Screenplay : Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L’helgoualc’h
Cinematography : Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L’helgoualc’h
Sound : Mathieu Farnarier
Editing : Nicolas Bancilhon
Production : Les Films Invisibles
French distributor : Norte Distribution