France
2022
10'
Summary
All Unsaved Progress Will Be Lost is a melancholic journey through a ghost town made of concrete and fog, based on the testimony of a woman who refused to evacuate her hometown village after a terrible disaster. The explanation on what the story is based on is only revealed at the very end, thus creating tension throughout the experience. The unnamed threat remains inexplicably imminent, allowing the viewer to project their own personal fears.
Director: Mélanie Courtinat
Festival | Animafest Zagreb: Best VR Project (2023)
Mélanie Courtinat
Réalisateur-rice
Mélanie Courtinat (b. 1993) is an artist and art director based in Paris. Her work spans video games, CGI images and films, and immersive virtual reality experiences, with most of her pieces developed using real-time engines and exhibited internationally. Her practice draws on the structures and aesthetics of video games, treating gameplay as a creative material in its own right. By focusing on core mechanics such as tutorials, quests, NPCs or save points, she examines the underlying logics of play and the assumptions they carry. Through the reworking of these familiar systems, she creates sensitive meta-games in which established rules are subverted to reveal deeper layers of meaning. Alongside her artistic practice, she leads commissioned projects for luxury, fashion and high jewelry, helping brands explore the visual languages and forms of interaction specific to video games. She is also a recurring guest lecturer in video-game history and digital humanities at ECAL, and regularly speaks, mentors and serves on juries across Europe and North America.
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