| Director: | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel |
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| Production: | Atlas V (Oriane Hurard, Arnaud Colinart, Antoine Cayrol, Pierre Zandrowicz), Byrd (Mando Stathi, Myrto Stathi) |
| Running Time: | 19’ |
| Language: | French |
| Country: | France, Greece |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Screenplay: | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel |
| Music: | Malibu |
| Sound: | Olivier Voisin, Victor Praud, Nicolas Bredin
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| Lead developer: | Johan Vignon |
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| Artists: | Lucien Krampf, Saradibiza |
| Narrator: | Grace Seri |
For the past three months, Candice has been exploding every day, sometimes multiple times, with a record of seven. She’s now at 192 explosions. Through a visceral VR spectacle, Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel portray her unstoppable anger as a haunting reflection of a world on edge.
We spent five years developing the story of La fille qui explose VR, alongside other short and feature films. Over time, Candice aged. Her relationship to the world became sharper, more lucid, and also more brutal. In our previous works, violence was more abstract, often dismissed as mere teenage crisis. But Candice’s anger is the anger of an entire generation facing helplessness and collapse. This same story, if filmed in live-action, would be unwatchable — too violent. Working in 3D allowed us to introduce distance and space for reflection. It gave Candice a voice. We collaborated with Saradibiza and Lucien Krampf — who also contributed to the game world in our previous feature film Eat the Night — and sourced existing online 3D assets to reconstruct Candice as a hybrid avatar, like performing a form of digital reconstructive surgery.
PRODUCTION 1:
Atlas V - Oriane Hurard, Arnaud Colinart, Antoine Cayrol, Pierre Zandrowicz
13, Rue Mont-Louis
75011 Paris, France
Tel: +33 01 47 00 03 01
E-mail: oriane@atlasv.io
Web: https://atlasv.io
Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/atlasv.io -Instagram, https://www.facebook.com/atlasvcorp - Facebook, https://x.com/AtlasVcorp - X (Twitter), https://www.linkedin.com/company/atlasv – LinkedIn
PRODUCTION 2:
Byrd - Mando Stathi, Myrto Stathi
Psaron 37, Chalandri
15232 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30 210 6100 100
E-mail: mando@byrd.gr
Web: https://www.byrd.gr/
Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/byrd_films - Instagram
WORLD SALES:
Astrea - Wan-Chen Huang
13, Rue Mont-Louis
75011 Paris, France
Tel: +33 01 47 00 03 01
E-mail: festival@astreaimmersive.io
Web: https://astreaimmersive.io/
Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/astreaimmersive/ - Instagram, https://www.linkedin.com/company/76121729 - LinkedIn, https://www.facebook.com/astreaimmersive - Facebook, https://twitter.com/astreaimmersive - X (Twitter), https://www.youtube.com/@astrea3197 - YouTube
PRESS OFFICE:
Wan-Chen Huang - Astrea
13, Rue Mont-Louis
75011 Paris, France
Tel: +33 01 47 00 03 01
E-mail: wanchen@astreaimmersive.io
