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Touché

During these last few months of confinement, I often thought of the days after the eruption of the Vesuvius. I kept picturing ​​this world where everything is fixed in place. I wondered if Pompeii's lovers still loved each other, and in a sense I think they do, buried into each other's arms, I don't think it's the kind of love that expires.

I spent a lot of time on google maps, explored places I never imagined going, located houses of my childhood, and even had romantic zoom dates where we'd wander Google's streets simultaneously. I noticed that there were many more similarities than I imagined between the physical world and the internet. That there exists virtual geographic spaces that people meet in, and others that are abandoned remnants of the 90s internet. I discovered online concerts, people streaming, and people watching people streaming. And it was fun.

Touché's video clip tells the story of these intertwined spaces, to these confinement artists who streamed
live music from their bedrooms, to these infinite worlds that we explore in video games, to these
virtual spaces that we inhabited when the streets of our cities couldn't. The world of Touché was
assembled by taking 12,000 screenshots of Google Earth in the cities of Montreuil, Berlin and Bamako
in order to model by photogrammetry a universe denuded of humans, an ambiguous place, close to what
it was during these two first month of confinement.

Credits

The music video was made for musical artist Hyperactive Leslie. Touché is one of the tracks of the album "Joué" released at Airfono Label on 18.06.2021

Dates

A nighttime scene created from photogrammetry of Montreuil in Paris, featuring textured, three-dimensional shapes that evoke the landscape of a neighborhood. The dark silhouettes of trees and a deep blue sky with scattered clouds are visible in the background, giving the image a quiet, nocturnal atmosphere.
@ Photogrammetries from Google Earth
A photogrammetry image captures Montreuil at sunrise, with the warm light illuminating the textured landscape of the neighborhood. The three-dimensional effect of the buildings is pronounced, with trees and structures distorted in a dreamlike state against the backdrop of a clear, gradient sky transitioning from night to day.
@ Photogrammetries from Google Earth
A surreal pre-rendered image of Montreuil with photogrammetry aberrations creating a disjointed urban landscape. Buildings and trees are depicted on uneven planes against a flat sky, with distortions in the terrain that contribute to a dreamlike interpretation of the cityscape.
@ Photogrammetries from Google Earth
An intricate photogrammetry composition merges the cityscapes of Berlin and Montreuil. The layered effect creates a surreal landscape where the two cities intertwine, floating fragments above and detailed urban textures below against a blank sky, showcasing a complex digital tapestry of architecture and streets.
@ Photogrammetries from Google Earth
A photogrammetry image depicts a street in Berlin, characterized by a fluid and distorted architectural landscape. The buildings appear to melt into the street, creating a surreal urban scene, with the evening light casting soft shadows and giving depth to the city's altered textures.
@ Photogrammetries from Google Earth