Millennials is a transversal project which unfolds in a video installation, commissioned by the FRAC Franche-Comté, directed by June Balthazard.
In its contemporary art and cinematic aspect, the project depicts a children's uprising. The action takes place in the near future, where the current Youth Climate Movement has grown, pushing children to leave their homes and move into forests to occupy them. In this futuristic tale, a community of children lives virtually autonomously in the forest, in treehouses.
Their shelters resemble rafts, suspended amidst a sea of foliage thanks to an ingenious system of ropes. The children literally hang on by a thread, fighting against the clearcutting that threatens the forest. But with the cold, the loggers' machines, and the police, the noose tightens around them, and their siege is coming to an end.
The original sound track has been composed using cello as the red wire, which confers humanity and fragility to this environment where the kids struggle to defend their values.
