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Knit’s Island

Year
2023
Country
France
Duration
95’
Directors
Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L’helgoualc’h

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, a group will take us on a walk on the borders 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 virtualisation of our lives, and questions the future of our world.

Content warning: graphic violence

CREW:
Director: Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L’helgoualc’h
Producer: Boris Garavini
Cinematographer: Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L’helgoualc’h
Sound: Mathieu Farnarier
Production
Les Films Invisibles
Sales:
Square Eyes. Sales: Wouter Jansen, +43 6 609805377, [email protected]. Festivals: Bérénice Hahn, +33 6 44 96 80 88, [email protected] / squareeyesfilm.com
Awards
FIPRESCI Prize and Winner of the Compétition Internationale Burning Lights at Visions du Réel International Film Festival Nyon (2023), Emerging Cinematic Vision Award at the Camden International Film Festival (2023), Prix Nouvelles Vagues Acuitis at La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival (2023).
Director
Ekiem Barbier
Ekiem Barbier was born in Toulouse in 1993, and is an author, filmmaker and musician. In 2012 he directed several short films, fiction and animations for which he composed the music. He then entered the School of Fine Arts in Montpellier. There in 2015 he joined the collective In Extremis with whom he contributed to several exhibitions. In 2017 Ekiem got his DNSEP (master’s 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 (a 34-minute film). He continues his video research with a particular interest in the sensitive dimension of anthropology and experimentation through a poetic and digital lens. Ekiem currently lives and works in Marseille.
Selected Filmography
La Vraie Vie (2023, in development), Marlowe Drive (2017), Anent (2016), Acier Trempé, Ondes, Jardin (2015), Bust (2014)
Director
Guilhem Causse

Guilhem Causse was born in Narbonne in 1993, and entered the School of Fine Arts of Montpellier in 2012. There he developed a style of 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 is 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’s degree in plastic expression) and developed his research around the film Solaris, which he reconsidered in a series of video and sound works, in the form of hypnotic and immersive installations.
Selected Filmography
La Vraie Vie (2023, in development), Solaris (2017-2022), Marlowe Drive (2017)
Director
Quentin L’helgoualc’h

Born in Lyon in 1992, Quentin L’helgoualc’h got a DNSEP (master’s degree in plastic expression) at the School of Fine Arts in Montpellier in 2017. Then in 2018 he joined the post-graduate art programme. He developed a form of work which mixes 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 digital spaces. In 2021 he joined the Fresnoy, the National Studio of Contemporary Arts, where he directed the fiction film Les Neiges électriques.

Selected Filmography

Les Neiges électriques (2021), Cristaux liquides (2020), Between Empty Things (2019), Marlowe Drive (2017)

Hall «KINOMAN»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Q&A
Original language with Ukrainian and English subtitles
By tickets
Adapted subtitles
Monday
03 June 2024
17:40
Hall «ANSHLAG»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Original language with Ukrainian and English subtitles
By tickets
Adapted subtitles
Tuesday
04 June 2024
11:00
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