Marlowe Drive

Somewhere on the internet is a land where communities pretend to live out a survivalist fiction. The avatars of the directors of Knit’s Island spent 963 hours there, creating a fascinating film resulting from their encounter with these communities. The “players” reveal their fears and fantasies, in an at times unsettling blurring of the real and the virtual.

Ekiem Barbier and Guilhem Causse offer a unique experience to Victor Assié, a young actor questioning the meaning of his profession: to explore an online simulation of daily life as an avatar and meet its users, while playing his own role. Through his complicated but hilarious peregrinations, he discovers a new yet familiar world.

Lost in the midst of a universal internet, visitors wander through a virtual museum, dressed in bizarre avatars. In this psychedelic-tinged documentary, it is through the perplexed gaze of a fish who arrived there by chance while surfing the internet that the directors lift the veil on the visitors' imaginations and their intimate vision of art and museum space.

Barnabé, a museum guard, discovers that a strange phenomenon seems to be erasing paintings by "pixelating" them. Wanting to alert his superiors, he meets Bertille, an art student and intern in the museum's restoration workshop. Together, they will try to understand this mysterious phenomenon that makes the paintings disappear behind a fog of pixels.