Étienne Kawczak-Wirz

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La Colère de Dario tells the story of a delivery driver in a near future in which artificial intelligence holds sway, a man plagued by visions, a kind of mental flight that is eating away at his hold on reality. When he decides to deviate from the route imposed on him by his vehicle, he ventures off the beaten track into increasingly personal landscapes. This film explores themes of technological alienation, disobedience as an act of survival, and a return to a wilder, more creative essence.

“The work began in the autumn of 2023, after a summer when I had carried out a series of solo cave explorations in an area stretching from the Doubs to the southern tip of the Vercors massif. It’s an activity I do on my own, with as little equipment as possible, depending on the level of accessibility. I go in and out without leaving a trace. Most of the caves are prehistoric, and are not open to the public. For me, the notion of risk is inseparable from this practice. I go there to find the essence, the silence, the primitive rock and the implacable absence of light. Getting out into nature and into these caves gives me a break from the city, where I live, away from superficiality, over-stimulation by sound and the omnipresence of technology. In a cave, there’s no network, so there’s no tracking, so you disappear from the radar screen.”

Étienne Kawczak-Wirz

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Étienne Kawczak-Wirz is a 33-year-old French visual artist, filmmaker and composer. Over the last three years, his resolutely multidisciplinary practice has centred on 3D animation and music. In 2023, he started up the musical project *Zone Minor Modification*, with a hybrid sound drawing on both historical and contemporary influences, at the crossroads of organic and electronic elements. Alongside his personal practice, in 2019 he co-founded *Unexplored Fields*, a digital creation studio specialising in the production of 3D content for the fashion, music and performing arts sectors.

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