Details
Feature Film – 80′
Type : CGI Unreal
Producer : Anne Steene, Florence Cohen, Paola Ravagni, Pierre Huyghe Studio
Artist director : Raphaël Siboni
Technical director : Sebastien Albert
Pre-production & Production : Loops Créative Studio, Mocap Lab, Karlab.
All credits : https://www.las-art.foundation/explore/digital-booklet-liminals
Our Missions
- Technical Direction (CG Supervisor) on Unreal Engine
- R&D :
- Shading
- PCG
- Virtual Camera & Take Recording
- LiveLink, capture pose and Animation
with custom model Meta Motivo : https://github.com/facebookresearch/metamotivo
- Technical Support on Unreal Engine
- Production Coordination
- Rendering and Debugging on Unreal Engine
Synopsis
Projected at a monumental scale, Liminals unfolds a modern myth. Set in a realm outside time and space, it has no beginning or end, no inside or outside, only shifting and even contradictory states. Huyghe describes this realm as “a space in which all possibilities exist at once, before one reality takes form, and all other potential states recede.” The film manifests some of these unrealised possibilities through a human-like figure.
The figure emerges from what the artist calls a “mineral membrane.” A void runs through their head, suggesting they are animated by the possibilities that remain inaccessible to us. We witness their attempts to exist, communicate and escape a single state of reality or consciousness.
Many passages in the film resist clear distinction, appearing almost like hallucinations or ineffable moments within the photorealistic simulation. These sequences destabilise perception, drawing us into a space where multiple possibilities may coexist. As inner and outer realms fold together, distinctions between body, environment and the forces that shape them begin to dissolve.
By placing a human-like figure within this unstable realm, Huyghe asks whether we can relate to such a reality at all, and what conditions might allow multiple states of existence to be experienced at once.
https://www.las-art.foundation/programme/pierre-huyghe
