Glass house (long version)

Experimental competition 2025

Glass House is a video-sonic spectacle, a disruptive immersive experience. It is the glass Tower of Babel, a giant prism inhabited by a human anthill. It is light diffraction, an hypnotic kaleidoscope, a play of saturated colors that combine in a mesmerizing effect. It is a sensation, a mix of attraction and repulsion borrowed from science fiction novels.

The film draws inspiration from 20th-century speculative and never made fiction by Sergei Eisenstein’s, and the new realities of contemporary societies: the proliferation of communication networks, transparency and data exchanges, the society of control and surveillance, urban utopias, hyper-connectivity, and alienation. Here, the utopias of the early 20th century have transformed into dystopias. In the background of Glass House, the figures of Evgueni Zamiatine (We), George Orwell (1984) and Byung-Chul Han (The Society of Transparency) also emerge.