Knit’s Island

Ekiem Barbier is a composer and filmmaker. He studied drawing and video at the Montpellier Fine Arts school and graduated in 2017. He makes short fiction and animation films and has participated in a number of collective exhibitions. He directed Anent (2017) and later he co-directed Marlowe Drive (2017), which premiered at Brive FF, using the graphics engine of a video game. His latest work is Knit’s Island (2023), co-directed with Guilhem Causse and Quentin L’helgoualc’h, which has been selected at Visions du Réel.

Born in Narbonne in 1993, Guilhem Causse entered the School of Fine Arts of Montpellier in 2012. There, he developed a work revolving around the relationship between image and sound, in the form of installations and video projections, halfway between cinema, performance and contemporary art. He is fascinated by collapsology and interested in recording natural and meteorological phenomena, which he then combines with virtual images in timeless spaces where the viewer is invited to settle. In 2017, he got his DNSEP (Master Degree in Plastic expression) and developed his research around the film Solaris, which he declined in a series of video and sound works, in the form of hypnotic and immersive installations.

Quentin L’helgoualc’h (b. 1992, Lyon) got a DNSEP (Master degree in Plastic expression) at the School of Fine Arts of Montpellier in 2017. Then, in 2018 he joined the Post-graduate Art program. He developed a plastic work mixing several mediums, such as sculpture, video, and drawing. In 2017 he directed Marlowe Drive (2017), a documentary immersed in the virtual world, in collaboration with Ekiem Barbier and Guilhem Causse. In 2019 and 2020, he made two video pieces: Between Empty Things and Cristaux Liquides, which combine live action and 3D animation, to deal with the thin relationship to digital spaces. In 2021, he joined the Fresnoy, the National Studio of Contemporary Arts, where he directed the fiction film Les Neiges électriques.