Knit’s Island

Synopsis

Somewhere on the Internet, there is a space of 250 square kilometres in which individuals gather in 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. The film explores the first steps of the virtualization of our lives, and questions the future of our world.

Director Biography

Ekiem Barbier is a composer and filmmaker. He studied drawing and video at the Montpellier Fine Arts school, graduating in 2017. He makes short fiction and animation films and has participated in a number of collective exhibitions. Guilhem Causse works on the relationship between image and sound. Mainly influenced by science fiction, photography and concrete music, he defines a universe where empty, resonating spaces, populated with strange forms, mix. Quentin L’helgoualc’h explores the plastic fields of cinema, drawing, digital image and sculpture exploiting their porosity. His various creations question the artist’s position in society, his fantasies and frustrations, facing new technologies.