Grotte

« Grotte » is an inner exploration, a journey that I thought up and created during the first confinement following the appearance of Covid 19. It proposes to enter the meanders of my brain, a labyrinth made up of my thoughts, research since this period from which I still find it difficult today to get out. Like a hermit crab, I sometimes feel stuck in my shell of mental isolation. The idea of this project is therefore to explore these different galleries of the brain, which could be likened to elements that could be found in a cave, whether underground passages, galleries, chasms, stalagmites, groundwater etc. This journey illustrates the traces of the upheavals that forced isolation can cause and shows a pattern of thought that can be described as unusual, with a desire to go elsewhere, to escape this condition. There are speleologists who shut themselves up there on purpose in caves, this experience aims to allow them to get out.

The Directors

Arnaud Laffond

Arnaud Laffond is a videographer, plastic digitalization workshop based in Lyon. His work is characterized by the creation of virtual environments and computer-generated materials.
The color, as the material brute, is numerically sculptured, treated and altered to be reborn in vibrating and bright architecture. His works are situated on the verge of science fiction, halfway between abstraction and the representationalism , utopia and dystopia, architecture and landscape. He works with diverse aspects of video, such as installation, animated gif and impression

General Informations

Directors : Arnaud Laffond

Production Company : Flux Laboratory (France ) / Région Auvergne Rhones Alpes (France)

Coproduction company : Campus Biotech (Switzerland)

Year of creation : 2022

Minimum Age : 8

English Dubbing

Technical Informations

Format : 3DOF

Duration : 6 minutes

Number of participants per session : 1

Equipment required : VR headset, Audio headset, 2 totems (110 x 30 x 30 cm) Stool for VR stations, 2 video projectors, 1 screen with HDMI input (for chromecast) / If possible recreate a living room with a partnership with Emmaus (2 chairs, 2 rugs, 1 sofa, 1 coffee table, 1 vase, 1 floor lamp) / Stable internet connection

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