Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel: ‘Eat the Night’
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, Eat the Night, 2024. Digital, colour, sound, 107 min. © Atelier de Production – AGAT Films & Cie – ARTE France Cinéma
About the Work
Eat the Night explores the blurred lines between digital and physical realities. The narrative follows siblings Pablo and Apolline, and Night, a stranger Pablo falls for, within the open-world RPG Darknoon. The film examines themes of identity, race and emotional turmoil as the game’s shutdown impacts their lives. Pablo and Apolline's characters navigate these changes, while Night, a Black man, faces a tragic fate, highlighting racial and social issues. The film’s use of conventional tools and match cuts underscores its critique of humanity’s prejudices and the intersection of digital and real-world identities.
About the Artists
Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel (b. 1990 and b. 1988; based in Paris, Corsica and Toulouse, France) are a contemporary duo whose work critiques and explores philosophical responses to rapid technological advancements, expressing post-humanist themes that reflect and articulate technocratic anxieties. They directed several films separately before starting their artistic collaboration with As Long as Shotguns Remain, which won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlinale. They then directed Our Legacy, also selected at the Berlinale. In 2018, their short film After School Knife Fight, selected at the Cannes Critics’ Week, was released in theatres as part of the sketch film Ultra Rêve. Their films are regularly shown in France and abroad, in festivals, museums, galleries and cinemas, on television and online.
About EMAP x FRIEZE FILM SEOUL
For the third year in a row, Frieze Film returns to Frieze Seoul 2024. This year’s programme is presented in partnership with Ewha Media Art Presentation (EMAP) and is on view from 2 – 6 September at Ewha Womans University and online at frieze.com.
Curated by Joowon Park and Valentine Umansky, this year’s programme is titled ‘All that Weaves the Universe: Of Quantum Entanglements’. It brings together time-based media works of 37 international artists, unfolding under eight chapters.
