French Immersion at FilmGate Miami 2023

FGI X will take place from November 29 through December 3, 2023, and the lineup features several spectacular experiences: Flow, Fortune, In Search of Time, and The EYE and I.

Producers Alessandra Bogi (Lucid Realities), Carol Giordano (Seconde Nature), François Klein (Digital Rise), Yves Ubelman (Iconem), Fred Volhuer (Atlas V) and Pierre Zandrowicz (Atlas V) will be in attendance too.

In addition, three Guadeloupean creators will benefit from an incubation program during the festival.

Works in competition:

“Flow” (2019) – Directed by Adriaan Lokman

Flow invites you to surrender to the whims of the wind on a seemingly ordinary day, concealing within its turbulence a captivating night in the life of a woman, portrayed through the dance of air currents.

The interplay of scents, warmth, respiration, and both natural and artificial gusts of wind, influenced by invisible forces, renders the imperceptible tangible. These atmospheric movements unveil a sequence of events inviting us to follow the woman on her meanderings, plunging us into a realm crafted entirely from air.

However, as the storm subsides and the woman awakens from what transpires to have been a dream, her world is no longer the same.

Type: VR experience
Genre: 360 movie
15 min
Produced by Valk Productions in co-production with Lucid Realities

“Fortune” (2023) – Directed by Claire Meinhard and Emilie Valentin

It’s all about money! Fortune is a series of true stories in augmented reality for Instagram & Snapchat. 7 people tell how money dictates their lives, how they have to rely on it to survive, or how they think it will bring them happiness or freedom. From counterfeiting to dumpster diving, from selling everything for bitcoin to retiring at age 30, what are we willing to do and give to earn a little more money?

Type: AR experience
Genre: Shorts
8×1’40
Produced by Atlas V in co-production with ARTE France

“In Search of Time” (2023) – Directed by Pierre Zandrowicz and Matthew Tierney

“The connected circles of our memory are like the rings of a tree stump. An intricate and delicate record of time…” Utilizing AI and traditional film techniques, In Search of Time follows the journey of Father and Son. Along the way, we navigate Memory’s intricate labyrinth, and explore its relationship to identity and time. We invite audiences to reflect upon the power of experience and confront the elusive nature of memory itself.

Type: Generative AI Film
Genre: Short film
7 min
Produced by Atlas V

“The EYE and I” (2022) Directed by Hsin-Chien Huang and Jean-Michel Jarre

This story comes from the French word “surveillance”, which in English originally referred to “eyes in the sky”, or a pair of eyes above us watching everything that happens below. “The Eye and I “is a VR work that reveals a surveillance crisis while inspiring audience self-reflection.” Viewers will be able to explore the origin and development of “The Eye and I”, and learn about the intertwined story of human society and “surveillance”. After a series of dark journeys, viewers learn how “surveillance” is embedded in our culture in various forms and even affects our perception of reality. “The Eye and I” aims to help people escape the surveillance framework and its constraints.

Type: VR experience
Genre: 360 movie
15 min
Produced by Hsiao-Yue Tsao in co-production with Digital Rise

Read more at https://www.filmgate.miami/fgix
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