Eloi Dollfus

TDN (Travail de Nuit — Night Work) is a sound capsule about working at night. The work of friends, of partying, of cleaning, of forgetting. In this capsule, I try to convey how I experienced a life split into two shifts, by day and by night.

Originally a way to earn a living, La Fabuleuse Cantine became a space of emotional comfort, but with exhausting rhythms and interactions. Bar life combined with student life led to memory and sleep problems, and sometimes more…

Le Rêve Ou La Vie (LROLV — The Dream or Life) is directly inspired by Chris Marker's short film La Jetée. The project is an echo and a free interpretation of the film. It also continues the themes of Brain Scratch, reflecting on dreams as a form of refuge or headlong escape.

Le Rêve Ou La Vie is a video work created in response to an open call from the ZERØ1 festival and FEMA La Rochelle.

For a dance-theatre piece created with TU Cie, I composed several accompaniments using a sampler. These soundscapes allowed the performer to evoke the unravelling of a harmony.

For the same piece, I also had the opportunity to create an animation between two scenes.

This composition explores different meanings of “resonance” — musical, psychological and physiological. Musically, the resonance of the religious choir and the silence that follows are translated into impact, impulse or linked movements, interpreting musical resonance in different ways.

Psychologically, it evokes non-verbal communication and feelings, conveying a message through the lyricism of the upper body. Physiologically, it makes the mind or the heart vibrate, combining these aspects in a non-narrative choreography and score, so that the audience can let the choreography resonate in their own way.