How to deal with what we inherit from our planet and our society as young adults? The duet Poggi and Vinel are portraitists of their time. They created a gallery of characters aging together with them, who all have in common a high sense of the now through the vision of a world collapsing in front of their own eyes. Their latest 3D opus released in 2024, La Fille qui explose is one of their most extreme short films: the diary of someone feeling lonely in her suffering. The synopsis tells it all:

“For the past three months, Candice has been exploding every day. Sometimes even two or three times a day. Her record is seven times. She’s currently at 192 explosions in total.”

Candice’s body is a colorful mess of many pieces and textures, even her heart is dangling outside her chest. She is composed of many characters of 3D assets bought on marketplaces emulating aesthetics present in social media like VRChat. Since Bébé Colère, Poggi and Vinel have been developing a singular and in-depth collaboration with 3D artists such as Lucien Krampf and Saradibiza.

“When I stopped being afraid I started exploding
What is my body trying to tell me?
We are so cut off that we need to be cut up to come together again.”

Caroline Poggi was born in 1990 in Ajaccio. She studied at the University of Corsica, and then graduated from the University Paris 8. Born in Toulouse in 1988, Jonathan Vinel studied editing at La Fémis. They began directing solo before embarking on a collaboration for As Long As Shotguns Remain, awarded by a Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlinale. Their first feature Jessica Forever premiered at TIFF and the Berlinale. Eat the Night was presented in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2024.

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