La Grande Vacance

(72min - Darjeeling Productions and Le Fresnoy - 2027)

A desktop documentary about screen fatigue and “sleep stream” practices becomes an optimistic reverie about the future of the internet.
What will remain tomorrow of the floods of images that exhaust us today?

Produced by Eliott Baillon for Darjeeling Production - in co-production with Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains

Selected credits:

Cast: Chlo Lavalette, Dominique Frot, Eli Roy, Didier Menou

Photography: Apolline Lamoril

Digital art: Jérôme Cortie & Sarah Benedyczuk

Music: Pierre Oberkampf

Sound editing: Raphaël Hénard, Alice de Matha

Sound mix: Raphaël Hénard

Color grading: Alexis Lambotte

This project has received the support of:

CNC - FAIA : aide à l’écriture (2023)
CNC - FAIA : aide au développement (2024)
CNAP : Soutien Image / Mouvement, soutien en développement (2024)
Région Bretagne - FACCA : aide Innovation recherche et nouvelles écritures (2024)
SCAM - Brouillon d’un rêve - écriture et formes émergentes (2025)
CNC - FAIA : aide au développement renforcé (2025)
American University of Paris : John H. Lewis Jr. Faculty Development Fund (2026)

The film has been developed in the context of a residency at Le C.L.O.S, organized by the Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux, and was one of the twelve projects presented at FIDLab (FIDMarseille) in June 2024 where it won two awards (from DAFILMS and Labo 42). It was selected as a work-in-progress at Film en cours - Entrevues Belfort as well as at Firstcut Lab - Nouvelle Aquitaine Hessen.

The research project from which the film emerged was presented publicly at the University of Groningen (May 24), during a keynote conference talk at the Université Côte d’Azur (November 24) and was the subject of two masterclasses at the Université Aix-Marseille and the University of Pittsburgh (March 26).

The film’s original development was supported by the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art.