Emma Delescluse

In a bistro restaurant, a couple watches a neglected stranger and has fun imagining his life. What if he were a killer? A marginal with a shady past? The game is funny, complicit, almost harmless. But behind the smiles and speculation hides a much darker truth: they are not the ones watching a monster... These are the monsters we look at.

"RAPTURE I - VISIT" revolves around Ukrainian Vogue dancer Marko and the confrontation with his abandoned and inaccessible apartment in the region of Donbas, Ukraine, where the war is going on for ten years. This apartment, rendered through a 3D scan of original photographs, becomes a digital reconquest of territory as Marko visits it through VR for the first time since 2018. He cannot return to Ukraine or Donbas (now Russia) due to the ongoing war caused by Russia's aggressive full-scale invasion. To inherit the apartment Marko needs to enter the country of Russia, where he immediately will be conscripted and forced to go to war to fight against his own country Ukraine.

5 members of a family meet in the house of their recently deceased mother. But wine reveals everyone's secrets, even if it means destroying everything.