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personal project

Close-up of a young person’s face illuminated by red and blue light, looking thoughtfully to the side.

The idea of a project about our teenage years came up a few months ago. The aim was to share some insights into our inner worlds at that time.

Boredom and lost sensations are central themes associated with the transition from analogue to digital. This series is structured as a poetic and sensory exploration of the end of an era: that of the last generation of teenagers to grow up in a predominantly analogue world, on the brink of the digital revolution.

Instead of providing a historical reconstruction, we present this unique transitional period (from around 2000 to 2005) as an archaeology of our gestures, sounds and lost sensations. Instead of focusing on the 'pop' culture of the 2000s, the series examines the contrast between yesterday's tangible world and today's connected world.

Close-up profile of a young man with long hair illuminated by red and blue lighting against a dark background.Vintage iMac computer on a desk with MSN Messenger chat open, illuminated by a small desk lamp and colorful post-it notes on the wall.
Young man with long hair illuminated by red and purple lighting looking upward thoughtfully in a dark environment.

We chose to focus our gaze on details and the infra-ordinary.

While others may see merely a collection of retro objects, we see a lost body language and sensory experience. We remember the sensation of sliding a mobile phone cover with your thumb, the frustration of a skipping CD, and the patience required for rewinding a cassette tape.

The main emotion we want to evoke is bittersweet nostalgia. Not joyful, idealised nostalgia, but a more complex emotion tinged with an awareness of what has been lost. Our aim is to generate a sense of tangibility, evoking the warmth of a PlayStation, the grainy texture of a VHS tape, the sticky feel of lip gloss, and the reassuring 'click' of a CD player.

Young man with long hair illuminated by red and purple lighting looking upward thoughtfully in a dark environment.
Camera monitor displaying a video frame focused on two people’s legs under red lighting with various camera settings visible.Photography session in a bedroom with one person holding a camera on the bed, another adjusting lighting, and a third viewing photos on a laptop; the room has band posters and a lava lamp.
Close-up profile of a young man with long hair illuminated by red and blue lighting against a dark background.Vintage iMac computer on a desk with MSN Messenger chat open, illuminated by a small desk lamp and colorful post-it notes on the wall.

We wanted to approach this project with authenticity by building a real set in the studio based on our own memories.

The question of using AI did arise in 2026, of course, but that wasn't the direction we wanted to go in for this project. Instead, we wanted to create something tangible that reflected our thoughts on the relationship between time and technology, and that was fun to make.

We wanted to question the value of waiting and pay tribute to a world of physical constraints that demanded a different kind of creativity and imagination. Because that's where we come from.

Camera monitor displaying a video frame focused on two people’s legs under red lighting with various camera settings visible.Photography session in a bedroom with one person holding a camera on the bed, another adjusting lighting, and a third viewing photos on a laptop; the room has band posters and a lava lamp.
Young man with long hair illuminated by red and purple lighting looking upward thoughtfully in a dark environment.
Camera monitor displaying a video frame focused on two people’s legs under red lighting with various camera settings visible.Photography session in a bedroom with one person holding a camera on the bed, another adjusting lighting, and a third viewing photos on a laptop; the room has band posters and a lava lamp.
Young man with long hair illuminated by red and purple lighting looking upward thoughtfully in a dark environment.

Credits.

Thanks to everybody that was involved in this project.

Diretor : Souffle
DOP : Camille Jaulent
Talents : Alice Mongrand, Axel Guichard
Producer : Eric Barbero / Barbero & you
Set decorator : César Anselmi, Idriss Gal
Editing : Mickael Paino, Souffle
Stylist : VIcky Bouchonnet / Baci Management
Sound Design : Julien Gerber
Boom Operator : Anton Dethyre
Photo retouching : Chic Paris
Studio : Very Little Cosmos
Assistant : Guillaume Zambetti

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