Rémy Soubanère

Alphaville

Started in 2015, this work looks for imaginary part of reality. In heavy context of terrorist attacks and state of emergency in France, it came from a strange undercurrent in the air in Paris at this time. Everything seemed tensed between surveillance and an undefined threat. Somehow, it felt like fiction was the only way out when reality progressed far beyond the future predicted in old dystopian movies. To pay hommage to them, the name is token from Jean-Luc Godard’s Noir-film classic Alphaville shot fifty years earlier. This work is shot in deeply changing Paris peripheral areas with the Grand Paris urban plan.