Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse & Quentin L'helgoualc'h, MARLOWE DRIVE
December 1, 2023 - December 11, 2023
Marlowe Drive is an experimental film that explores the terrain of video games as a context for documentary filmmaking. A director, Adam Kesher, fresh from David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, lands in another fictional Los Angeles. It's in this Hollywood movie landscape recreated by Rockstar Games that this director sets out to find someone to talk to. He's looking for a bridge between the real and imaginary worlds. The film takes place on the game's multiplayer platform to meet "real" characters. It gathers information on the individuals who inhabit this space and reinserts the process of documentary filming into a virtual world. Moving back and forth between staging and raw footage, the protagonist allows himself to be swept along by the current of a chaotic world that fascinates him but gradually overtakes him. Through his character and his encounters, we ourselves discover a virtual world. An autonomous world is strangely close to a form of reality.
Ekiem Barbier :
Born in Toulouse in 1993, Ekiem Barbier is an author, video artist and musician. In
2012 he directed several short films, fiction and animation, for which
for which he composed the music. He then entered the fine arts school in Montpellier, where he
joined the Collectif In Extremis in 2015, with whom he participated in several
exhibitions. Ekiem obtained his DNSEP in 2017, the year in which he became
interested in documentaries, where he directed Anent (doc 42min, shot in the
in the high Amazon of Ecuador), and Marlowe Drive (34 min) with two
co-writers Quentin and Guilhem. He continues his video research with a
a particular interest in the sensitive dimension of anthropology and experimentation
experimentation through a poetic and digital prism. Ekiem lives and
works in Marseille.
Guilhem Causse :
Born in 1993 in Narbonne, Guilhem Causse entered the Beaux-Arts de
Montpellier in 2012. There, he developed a body of work centered on the
between image and sound, in the form of installations and video
and video projections, halfway between cinema, performance and
art. Fascinated by collapsology, he is interested in capturing
natural and meteorological phenomena, which he then mixes
virtual images in timeless spaces where the viewer is invited
viewer is invited to settle in. After obtaining his DNSEP in 2017, he is
developed a research project around the work Solaris, which he turned into
a series of video and sound works, in the form of hypnotic and immersive
immersive installations.
Quentin L'helgoualc'h :
Born in Lyon in 1992, Quentin L'helgoualc'h obtained the diplôme national
d'expression plastique at the Beaux-Arts de Montpellier in 2017,
then joined the post-graduate program in 2018. He is developing a body of work
mixing several media, such as sculpture, video and drawing. In
2017, he directed Marlowe Drive, a documentary immersed in the virtual
virtual world, in collaboration with Ekiem Barbier and Guilhem Causse. In 2019 and
and 2020, he will produce two video works: Between Empty Things and
Cristaux Liquides (Liquid Crystals), which combine live action and 3D animation
sensitive relationship with digital spaces. In 2021, he joins
Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, where he directed the film
fiction film Les Neiges électriques.