Félix Rehm

One night under the stars, Marc dreams of meeting a girl.

In a repressive city-state, a tomboy schoolgirl persuades three classmates at an all-girls school to rebel by forming a triad gang.

At dawn, in a great classical dance conservatory, a boy falls while rehearsing some movements. Something breaks in his foot, causing sharp pain. But it's exams day and the boy refuses to quit: he tries to face his dance partner and classmates, convincing himself his body has no limits.

How does a machine learn to read the world? Testimonies and screen recordings introduce the experience of online micro-workers from the Global South: their job is to teach the AI of self-driving cars to navigate the streets of the Global North.

Porte de la Chapelle. A shooting range. A woman. A crescent moon. Weapons.

In the depths of the underground coal mines, where danger awaits and darkness prevails, Nam and Việt, both young miners, cherish fleeting moments, knowing that one of them will soon leave for a new life across the sea.

Samnang, 20, faces the demolition of his lifelong home in Phnom Penh and the pressures from family, friends, and neighbors which arise and intersect in this moment of sudden change.

One late summer afternoon, in a suburb in the far north of France, on the outskirts of Calais and the sea. Children and teenagers kill time at the foot of the tower blocks, between buildings and vacant lots. They talk about love, doubts, and hopes, trying to understand what drives them.

Kavich Neang documents the final days of the White Building in Phnom Penh, an architectural landmark he had lived in since birth.

Images of crowd simulation are faced with testimonies from Liverpool Football Club’s supporters who recall their experience marked by a tragic event: the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989, which changed the nature of the game of football.

Angelo dreams that his son Matteo becomes a great goalkeeper. In order to reach this goal, Angelo invests everything. But Matteo turns a deaf ear to his father’s dream. During an important game, Angelo is prepared to interfere in his son’s play in order to back him. But the father pushes his son to the limits. He finally puts more than his very dream at stake.

The journey of a young man as he begins an apprenticeship in the French countryside to train as a gardener. There he encounters a trio of men who will prove decisive in both his nascent career as a horticulturist and in unleashing his sexuality.

Out in the suburbs around Paris, a specialized teacher, Josiane, is taking care of five children failing at school. There, they share their fears, joys and sufferings at school. 'In session do not disturb' introduces us to their world while they will learn to learn.

Yohei Yamakado has not returned to his native Japan for eight years; his friend Olivier Cheval therefore embarks on an exploration of the land of the Rising Sun, evoking his friend’s memories, almost in a re-enactement of his friend’s life by proxy. Cheval travels, moving from Tokyo to Kyoto, from Kobe to Lake Towada, and in the meantime he juggles, in an equally exploratory way, between childhood and memory, between exile and friendship, making the invisible tangible.

In 1926, a Brancusi sculpture is stopped at the American border. Non-figurative, this artwork is classified as a manufactured article and its owner forced to pay a duty. The artist, Constantin Brancusi, appealed the decision. Judge Byron Waite, a former member of the Customs Board, is chosen to process the trial.

Freedom means only one thing: riding your dirt bike in the street, front wheel aimed at the sky.

The sense of rituals and the manifestation of the sacred has underpinned all of Clément Cogitore's oeuvre, inspired by gatherings, communal phenomena, and the expression of beliefs of today, be they erratic or diffuse, or without a defined subject. The spread of images and the way in which they have become commonplace constitute the off-screen "narrative" of this approach: the artist confronts and responds to this with a visual intensity and a sense for storytelling that borders on the fantastic.

ARTIFICIALIS presents an ambiguous, spectral territory, undergoing mutation, where reality and virtuality are superimposed on one another, and where our reference points can no longer be discerned. [Overview courtesy of Musée d'Orsay]