With the ever-growing presence of AI in our lives, I felt the urgency to talk about this topic. The extinction of the human species is a very real risk; according to Steven Hopkins, it is more dangerous, than the use of nuclear weapons.
Nonetheless you wrote a script ?
No, we have written the story, but not the dialogue.
So what’s your process?
As in "The lord of the flyes", I'm going to read passages from the story and give vague directions to the actors, who then will have to improvise as best they can. It's more an illustration of an idea of how these young people, left to their own, would instinctively react to a digital entity taking over the world.
But this film is first and foremost a play...
Yes indeed, I have met André Chouillou and his theater company in Bourg-Saint-Maurice. We first wrote a play that will be performed from June 2025. And then we have imagined this topic for the cinema.
The subject of the film is freedom?
Yes, I think so. It is the urgent need to regain control of our humanity.
I imagine you came to the Berlinale to find a producer?
Yes, I have several people in mind, including a woman I met in 2016 at the Clermont-Ferrand festival, whose name I won't mention for the moment. I will also be in AFM,Cannes, Locarno and Shanghaï.Tchuss