The research project proposes to explore the creative process, the methodology and the technical and technological tools needed to approach sensitive work on a specific, complex and hybrid territory. This approach involves taking into account a multitude of stakeholders in this territory, whether human or not, living or not, in order to capture new forms of alliance and reveal the narratives that emerge.
To do this, the artistic research plans to combine two practices: cinema and cartography.

Questions relating to cartography and cinema emerged at the start of a documentary project located north of the border between Belgium and France, around a village called Les Moëres.

This polder landscape, bathed in the characteristic light of the north, with its deep clouds and local agricultural activity, evokes the paintings of 16th century Flemish painters. However, on closer inspection, this vast marshland has been transformed into a crossroads where, among other things, the paths of migrants and the algorithms of high-frequency traders intersect. This research project is set in this specific territory, where a multitude of specific contemporary issues converge, and where there is an urgent need to take them into account. It aims to reveal the narratives of the inhabitants who coexist in this space, housed in the soil, water, air and through the different temporal strata that span several centuries of the site's history. It's a place where the protagonists and narrative forces include plant, chemical, physical and virtual elements... Through these entanglements, the landscape has become hybrid, unsettling and often illegible. A sense of disorientation sets in, underlining the need to create a new form of aesthetic relationship in order to understand its complexity.