Attack the Sun is the first-time collaboration between Fabien Zocco (contemporary artist) and Gwendal Sartre (filmmaker, contemporary artist).
The dialogues of the film have been generated by an artificial intelligence during the filming, the actors receiving in realtime the text they had to perform.
The machine interfere with the writing of the film, and steers the drift of this young californian guy who, while driving his car, is sinking deeper and deeper through the maze of his mind. It guides the progressive dilution of the language and the psyche of the main character.
Using the visual codes of self-filming on the Internet, the film reveals the obscure detours of this wandering through a magma of images, words, places, that coagulate each other. Where will it end ? The film outlines in filigree the figure of a potential killer, combining frustration, isolation and technologically assisted narcissism.
Gwendal Sartre, filmmaker and artist, works from different narrative forms essentially through images. From the ties that weave between women and men, he draws layers of archaic stories as if they were already molded in forms. His work has been presented at the FID in Marseille, FNC in Montreal and at the FIAF Institute in New York. Trained at the School of Fine Arts in Marseille, joined Le Fresnoy, national workshop, in 2014.
The artistic work of Fabien Zocco gives rise to technology-fiction scenarios where attributes specific to humans and more generally to living beings (language, speech, text, movement ...) are now to be shared and negotiated with the machine.
His work has been shown in France (Le 104-Paris, Le Fresnoy, FRAC Poitou Charentes...), China (Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai), Mexico (French Institute, Mexico DF), Canada (UQTR gallery, Trois-Rivières), Poland (A-I-R program, Wroclaw), Belgium (NTAA Biennale (Gent), Royal Museum of Mariemont), Italy (Into thin words, Polignano a mare), Germany (GEH8, Dresden), and online (The Wrong - New digital art biennale). Fabien Zocco graduated Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains (2016, jury honors).
