Alien Love Call
“Alien Love Call” is a series of 6 staged images produced in medium-format film. This project presents an utopian fiction in a retro-futuristic universe, telling a love story between two extraterrestrials.
Born of a reflection on our romantic ideals and the collective imagination shaped by 50s cinema, 70s design and popular culture codes, particularly those of science fiction, this project blends multiple cultural references to create its own universe.
The choice of a retro-futuristic universe stems from reflections on our vision of the future, once filled with promise and utopian visions. Today, this vision is often pessi-mistic, as evidenced by recent films and video games, often set in dystopian universes. When I talk to people around me, we often come to the same conclusion: we have little hope for the future, especially when it comes to ecology and socio-political issues. Nostalgia for the future, that paradoxical feeling where we aspire to an idealized future while at the same time being plunged into a kind of melancholy, seems to be increasingly dominant. We like to plunge back into those times when we still believed in the future.
The retro-futurism in “Alien Love Call” thus represents this vision of a bygone era when the future was still perceived as positive, in contrast to today’s more pessimis- tic trend.
Born of a reflection on our romantic ideals and the collective imagination shaped by 50s cinema, 70s design and popular culture codes, particularly those of science fiction, this project blends multiple cultural references to create its own universe.
The choice of a retro-futuristic universe stems from reflections on our vision of the future, once filled with promise and utopian visions. Today, this vision is often pessi-mistic, as evidenced by recent films and video games, often set in dystopian universes. When I talk to people around me, we often come to the same conclusion: we have little hope for the future, especially when it comes to ecology and socio-political issues. Nostalgia for the future, that paradoxical feeling where we aspire to an idealized future while at the same time being plunged into a kind of melancholy, seems to be increasingly dominant. We like to plunge back into those times when we still believed in the future.
The retro-futurism in “Alien Love Call” thus represents this vision of a bygone era when the future was still perceived as positive, in contrast to today’s more pessimis- tic trend.
2024