KNIT'S ISLAND

By Ekiem BARBIER, Guilhem CAUSSE, Quentin L'HELGOUALC'H

SQUARE EYES - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2023

In the guise of avatars, a film crew enters an online video game. They come into contact with a community of players and meet their stories, fears, and aspirations.

Festivals
& Awards

Visions du Réel 2023
San Sebastian FF 2023
Film Library (not in selection)
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Animation, First film
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 96 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ekiem BARBIER, Guilhem CAUSSE, Quentin L'HELGOUALC'H
    • Producer(s)
    • Boris GARAVINI
    • Synopsis
    • Somewhere on the Internet, there is a space of 250 square kilometers in which individuals gather in community to simulate a survivalist fiction. Under the guise of avatars, a film crew enters this place and makes contact with the ‘locals.’ This mysterious, post-apocalyptic rural landscape is revealed as a meeting place, where stories, ideas and friendships are shared. Slowly the players drop their masks to reveal their realities, their daily lives, their relationships of love and friendship. Mixing their memories of the game with the stories of their real lives, a group will take us on a walk on the borders of the Internet. By going to the edge of the game, in search of the limits of this place, the film explores the first steps of the virtualization of our lives, and questions the future of our world.