Samedi 15 - Dimanche 16 is a ten-minute experimental documentary made over an ordinary weekend in Barcelona. Friends eat, walk, talk and let time pass. The film stays with these everyday moments until familiar things begin to feel strange.
We took hundreds of photographs and used generative AI to animate them. Movement had not been recorded, so it had to be invented. Depending on the sequence, one photograph provided the starting frame, or two photographs defined the beginning and end of a movement. The generated footage supplied gestures, shifts and transformations that had never been filmed.
We did not add staged action, narration or dialogue. Instead, we selected generations whose errors changed the scene without making it unrecognisable. A face slips, a body changes shape, an object appears halfway through a gesture. These were not defects to hide, but moments when the familiar turned into something else.
Sound kept the images connected to the weekend we had lived. Raphaël Angelini, who also appears in the film, recorded much of the location sound. Théophile and I kept these recordings, added ambience and used sound libraries where a recording was missing or insufficient.
I co-directed the film with Théophile Farant. We shared the photography, generation, selection, editing and subtitling. The finished film moves between a record of what happened and movements that only exist in the generated images.
