Mathilde Reynaud

Lemna - Film - 12min - 2023

présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 25

Film


In a limpid, suspended, almost artificial atmosphere, Matilda 1 and Matilda 2 suggest the story of 19th-century English and American botanists in their observation of the plant world. Their dialogues born from the study of plants intertwine with the technical language of the 3D software user; they bring out a common sensibility shared between these scientific and digital practices under the sign of feminist empowerment. They carry the history of these emancipated women, those past and those to come.

 In the course of their exchanges, Matilda 1 and Matilda 2 are contaminated by a green fluidity in their thoughts and guided towards the depths of the marshes by computer-generated images that melt their bodies into a strange and luminescent environment.

Mathilde Reynaud


Mathilde Reynaud, born in 1994, lives and works in Lille. She explores 3D computer graphics and its links with video games, video and VR. She approaches this technique as a form of empowerment. Her work examines our relationship with real and virtual environments and the narratives they inspire, through fictions that question otherness, science fiction and nature. 

Production


Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing

Partenaires

Fonds de soutien à la création artistique numérique Fonds [SCAN] Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes — VIDEOFORMES — Bernadette Éditions

Credits


› Réalisation : Mathilde Reynaud, Mathilde Reynaud
› Assistant réalisation : Alice Rogeaux
› Interprétation : Diane Cescutti, Charline Dally
› Voix : Coby Rae Crosby
› Image : Juliette Barrat
› Assistant caméra : Léo Brezot
› Chef électricien : Lou Gallay
› Électricité : Marius Hellot
› Chef machiniste : Ode Gonzalez Garcia
› Assistant machiniste : Coline Le Bacon
› Décoration : Nastasia Misiek
› Stagiaire : Laetitia Barraud-Battistini, Antoine Staszewski
› Plasticien : Simon Déliot
› Costume : Zoé Dumond
› Assistant de régie : Emma Fournier, Agathe Dupont
› Ingénieur du son : Déborah Drelon
› Montage image : Noé Grenier
› Bruitage : Benjamin Poilane
› Sound design : Tristan Soreau
› Montage son : Benjamin Poilane, Tristan Soreau
› Mixage : Tom Nollet
› Étalonnage : Aurore Toulon
› Kinéscopage : Aurore Toulon
› Effets spéciaux : Thomas Léon, Mathilde Reynaud
› Traduction : Coby Rae Crosby
› Dialogues : Coby Rae Crosby
› Accompagnement artistique : Basma al-Sharif