Knit's Island

Born in Toulouse in 1993, Ekiem Barbier is an author, a filmmaker and a
musician. In 2012 he directed several short films, fiction and animation, for
which he composed the music. He then entered the School of Fine Arts of
Montpellier. There in 2015 he joined the collective In Extremis with whom
he contributed to several exhibitions. In 2017 Ekiem got his DNSEP (Master
Degree in Plastic expression). The same year, he became interested in
documentary and made Anent (a 42-minute documentary shot in the
upper Amazon of Ecuador), and Marlowe Drive (34-minute film). He
continues his video research with a particular interest in a sensitive
dimension of anthropology and experimentation through a poetic and
digital lens. Ekiem currently lives and works in Marseille.

Born in Narbonne in 1993, Guilhem Causse entered the School of Fine Arts
of Montpellier in 2012. There he developed a work revolving around the
relationship between image and sound, in the form of installations and
video projections, halfway between cinema, performance and
contemporary art. He is fascinated by collapsology and interested in
recording natural and meteorological phenomena, which he then combines
with virtual images in timeless spaces where the viewer is invited to settle.
In 2017 he got his DNSEP (Master Degree in Plastic expression) and
developed his research around the film Solaris, which he declined in a
series of video and sound works, in the form of hypnotic and immersive
installations.

Born in Lyon in 1992, Quentin L’helgoualc’h got a DNSEP (Master degree in
Plastic expression) at the School of Fine Arts of Montpellier in 2017. Then in
2018 he joined the Post-graduate Art program. He developed a plastic
work mixing several mediums, such as sculpture, video, and drawing. In
2017 he directed Marlowe Drive, a documentary immersed in the virtual
world, in collaboration with Ekiem Barbier and Guilhem Causse. In 2019 and
2020 he made two video pieces: Between Empty Things and Cristaux
Liquides, which combine live action and 3D animation, to deal with the thin
relationship to digital spaces. In 2021 he joined the Fresnoy, the National
Studio of Contemporary Arts, where he directed the fiction film Les Neiges
électriques.