Works
Ceci Est Mon Cœur
At the 2024 Venice Biennale
Installation
Virtual Reality
Immersion
Technology
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From
From August 28 to
September 7, 2024 -
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Location
Venice, Italy
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What we did
Co-production
The world premiere of Ceci Est Mon Cœur will take place during the 81st Venice International Film Festival.
Ceci Est Mon Cœur is an immersive site-specific work exploring an extraordinary love story, that of a child's reconciliation with his body. It's an immersive tale in which the audience, wrapped in a connected garment and embellished with luminous embroidery, is swept up in a poetic experience that is both aural and visual.
Ceci Est Mon Cœur offers a sensory odyssey in which the audience sees the connected garment light up in synchronization with the text of the story.
Designed to accommodate 30 people simultaneously, Ceci Est Mon Cœur is an installation intended for cultural and artistic centers and venues dedicated to immersive experiences.
Tech Sheet
Format: Immersive art installation
Running time: 35'
Version: French / English
Authors & Directors: Nicolas BLIES, Stéphane HUEBER-BLIES
Art directors: Nicolas BLIES, Stéphane HUEBER-BLIES
Technical director: Damiano PICCI (Velvet Flare)
Casting: Corentin FILA, Raphel FAMOTIBE
Producers: Marion GUTH, François LE GALL
Coproducers: Chloé JARRY, Julie TREMBLAY, Coline DELBAERE
Production company: a_BAHN (LU)
Co-production: Lucid Realities (FR), PHI Studio (CA)
With the support of: Film Fund Luxembourg (LU), CNC (FR), Creative Europe MEDIA (EU), Région Grand Est (FR), Ville de Paris (FR), Procirep - Angoa (FR), Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (CA)
About Nicolas Blies and Stéphane Hueber-Blies
Nicolas Blies and Stéphane Hueber-Blies (Blies brothers) are two French filmmakers and digital artists who create their works together.
In 2015, they conceptualized the documentary music transmedia Soundhunters in co-production with ARTE. Soundhunters was imagined to transform the world into an infinite musical instrument. The transmedia was released in 2015 in collaboration with many international artists including Jean Michel Jarre, Simonne Jones or Blixa Bargeld. In 2016, the Blies brothers were invited to present their work at Lincoln Center during the New York Film Festival. The project was placed in 2016 under the high patronage of UNESCO.
In 2019, they wrote and directed their first feature film Zero Impunity about the impunity of sexual violence in wartime (Thessaloniki IFF, Annecy IFF, Moscow IFF, Mostra de Sao Paulo, Guadalajara IFF, Palm Springs IFF...). Hybridizing animation and live action, the film is considered one of the precursors in the field, particularly for its ability to « figuring the unmentionable ». The Blies brothers were invited by the Annecy International Animation Film Festival to participate in the traditional “Cinema Masterclass” of the festival to talk about the issue of “sexual violence in animation”. In 2021, the film was nominated for the Trophées Francophones du Cinéma in the “Best Documentary” category.
In 2024, the Blies brothers released the digital art installation Ceci Est Mon Cœur (This Is My Heart), about the reconciliation of a child with his body, mixing video-mapping and connected clothing. Following Zero Impunity, here again they hybridize animation and live action. For the first time, they also use a technique akin to “Spoken Word”. Combining Stéphane’s poetic writing with Nicolas’s musical creations, they explore a fusion of words and rhythms at the service of storytelling. The World Premiere of Ceci Est Mon Cœur will take place during the 81st Venice International Film Festival.
The Blies brothers decided to pursue their research into spoken word and visual hybridization in the development of their first feature-length film Maman Sopra.
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