Directing
Ekiem Barbier
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Directing
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Born in Toulouse in 1993, Ekiem Barbier is a writer, filmmaker, and musician. In 2012, he directed and composed the music for several fiction and animated short films. He then entered the Montpellier School of Fine Arts. In 2015, he joined the In Extremis collective, with which he contributed to several exhibitions. He obtained his Higher Diploma in Fine Arts (DNSEP) in 2017. That same year, he began taking an interest in documentary filmmaking and directed Anent, shot in the Ecuadorian Amazon, as well as Marlowe Drive, in collaboration with Guilhem Causse and Quentin L’helgoualc’h. He continues his research with a particular focus on a sensitive dimension of anthropology and experimentation…
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5.0Lost in the middle of a universal internet, visitors wander through a virtual museum, dressed in wacky avatars. In this psychedelic-tinged anticipation documentary, it is through the bewildered gaze of a fish who arrived there by chance while surfing the internet that the filmmakers lift the veil on the visitors' imaginations and their intimate view of art and the museum space.
Normal Planet
2026
NRMarlowe Drive is an experimental film that explores the field of video games as a context for making a documentary. A director, Adam Kesher, from David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive, lands in another fictional Los Angeles.
Marlowe Drive
2018
6.9Somewhere 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.
Knit's Island
2024
Behind the camera
5.0Lost in the middle of a universal internet, visitors wander through a virtual museum, dressed in wacky avatars. In this psychedelic-tinged anticipation documentary, it is through the bewildered gaze of a fish who arrived there by chance while surfing the internet that the filmmakers lift the veil on the visitors' imaginations and their intimate view of art and the museum space.
Normal Planet
2026
5.0Lost in the middle of a universal internet, visitors wander through a virtual museum, dressed in wacky avatars. In this psychedelic-tinged anticipation documentary, it is through the bewildered gaze of a fish who arrived there by chance while surfing the internet that the filmmakers lift the veil on the visitors' imaginations and their intimate view of art and the museum space.
Normal Planet
2026
NRMarlowe Drive is an experimental film that explores the field of video games as a context for making a documentary. A director, Adam Kesher, from David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive, lands in another fictional Los Angeles.
Marlowe Drive
2018
6.9Somewhere 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.
Knit's Island
2024