Amaïllia Bordet

Ondine lost her Corsican grandmother when she was a child. Since then, the memory has faded. Through a memory quest combining cooking recipes and artificial intelligence, Ondine sets out in the footsteps of her ancestor, bringing her "digitally back to life" through a few rare photos that remain. A posthumous goodbye that could not have taken place.

Farida is back in her father’s native Algeria for the first me since she was a child. She discovers her grandmother’s house in the middle of the countryside. When the night comes, her sleep is disturbed by an intruder, a strange creature which has been haunting the family for many years.

You hear the gentle lapping of the water, the shimmer of the waves. The room is all blue. Right in front of you, a fragile signal is picked up on the screen. Step closer, and press A to mimic it. Hold the frequency : This is your first contact with the loneliest whale in the world. Note where it is, we’ll come back to it later.

An AI tries to build itself a memory by drawing from other people’s images. It longs to find its own humanity within them.