Voyage au Pôle Sud

«This film is truly an experimental work: I wanted to give myself great freedom to lead the viewer beyond the simple description of landscapes that today can easily be found on social media or in documentaries. Here, I wanted to instead describe the landscapes of the soul. Therefore, in agreement with Christophe Graillot, the director of photography, I opted for a different approach. The goal was to move away from realism and get closer to emotional relationships, which led us to choose black and white: a radical choice, thanks to which I expressed an artistic freedom I had not allowed myself for a long time. The silhouette, often blurry, that appears in the film and which I call "the traveler" is a sort of split personality, since it is I who embodies it. In reality, the idea was born under the pressure of events, since during filming, we realized that the size of the Antarctic continent made no sense without a comparison with the human scale. I did not intend to tell the story of geography, let alone travel in general. I wanted to narrate a sort of "here and now": in other words, an erratic wandering that begins in a certain place and ends up being a sum of stages that could have been a thousand others.

When you're about to shoot, you go on a mission: film the emperor penguins, film this and that. Here, however, I truly wanted the audience to be able to join us, to journey alongside us, because for me this is an adventure in the noblest and most fantastic sense of the word».