Orage

At nightfall, as a storm approaches, a variety of wildlife bustles through the wild grasses on the edge of a village in the Pyrenees. At the intersection of ethology, image, and sound, the film offers a moment of shared experience. An extension of oneself into animal "umwelts," fascinating othernesses that, through the shared event of the storm, lead us to rethink our coexistence with the living.

Co-directed with Naïs Van Laer, Orage is an experimental short film in which vision gradually disappears to give way to a sound composition, created from spatialized audio-naturalist recordings.

Created during a residency at the Maison du Parc et de la Vallée, in Luz-Saint-Sauveur, in the Pyrenees, Orage is the first part of a series entitled Lisières (edges), which examines the territorial division between humans and other forms of life, observing the indeterminate zones between human-made spaces and "nature."

The film is primarily sound-based; image is only present to disappear into the night, while the environmental electroacoustic composition takes full advantage of the Dolby system in movie theaters as a space for sonic and musical expression.