Antoine Viviani

Antoine Viviani directed in 2011 In Situ[1], a documentary essay about artistic interventions in the urban space in Europe, featuring artists, activists and philosophers.[2] It received the Doclab Award at IDFA in Amsterdam in 2011[3][4] and the Best Film Award at London Open City Documentary Festival in 2012.[5]

In 2015, Antoine Viviani produced and directed In Limbo,[6][7] a documentary essay telling the story of a digital spirit, performed by the French-Canadian writer Nancy Huston, dissolving into the memory of the Internet.[8] The film stages Internet founding fathers and visionaries Gordon Bell, Brewster Kahle, Cathal Gurrin, and Ray Kurzweil[9] among many others, filmed as ghosts, using a special volumetric depth camera.[10][11] An interactive online shortened version, In Limbo Interactive, was released by Arte and the NFB on a specific web-platform, where the viewer could connect its own data.[12] The film premiered in Nov. 2015 as part of the international competition of CPH:Dox in Copenhagen and received several awards.[13]

In 2019, Antoine Viviani created with Pierre Alain Giraud the location-based immersive art installation Solastalgia. Wearing a specific AR equipment, a group of 10 people explores a 400 square meter landscape of a deserted, post apocalyptic future where the last generations have decided to transform into ghosts, thanks to a machine, repeating the same gestures over and over again, haunting the planet forever.[14] Antoine Viviani has said to have been largely inspired by Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Morel Invention to write the experience.[15] Icelandic visual artist Gabriela Fridriksduttir, composer Valgeir Sigurdson and choreographer Erna Omarsdottir collaborated on the piece.[16] Solastalgia got selected in the 2020 New Frontier selection of the Sundance Film Festival[17][18] and was exhibited at Champs Libres museum in Rennes, France,[19] and at The National Gallery of Iceland in June 2020.[20]