La nuit n’en finit plus (“The night won’t seem to end”) (2021 - ongoing project)
Video installation
Duration 2’55 min & 3’22 min, color 9/16 HD

    This series of silent video portraits deals with storytelling, oral memory, and intimacy. It repeats the same filming protocol: a femme/ woman recorded themselves recollecting a personal story (it could be anything), then I filmed a second person, in one take, listening to for the first time this memory I was entrusted with; after what I asked the second person I had just filmed to tell in their turn something about them that would be recorded and so on.

    This process attempts to create an indirect encounter between strangers, as a chain, “borrowing” a story from a person and passing it on to another. Filming becomes a pretext for an interaction, leading people to have a one-to-one experience, a mental journey, that can be repeated endlessly. Each personal story responding to the previous one participates in that flow, and they all together form a whole. Diving into people’s experiences, memories, dreams, hopes, fears, anger, love, ardor, drive, and eventually their core, a community is drawn from that collective experience that goes beyond the expression of the spectrum of womanhood - no matter what that term means to each individual who apprehends it differently.

    La nuit n’en finit plus acts as a sort of fire camp — where one finds a confidant whether in an old friend or a stranger during a long night of deep conversations — with remote participants, enabling new paths towards intimacy. I wish thus to create a subjective and ever-incomplete yet growing “encyclopedia” not of knowledge but of feelings.