The video Rounded with a sleep shows a group of teenagers wandering through a stark natural landscape to the sound of the wind. Together they are engaged in an experiment: playing the choking game. The game consists of inducing fainting, or even hallucinations, through suffocation. The voluntary loss of consciousness between life and death, between the real and the fictitious, blurs all the player’s temporal reference points, as if in a moment suspended outside of time. This dangerous game echoes the youth of the protagonists, themselves on the border between childhood and adulthood. The looped montage of this scene illustrates Laurent Montaron’s vision of the narrative purpose of his works: “The story does not find a resolution at the end of the film, but rather in what the viewer makes of this equation between themselves and the story […] The denouement takes place off-screen.”

Text written by Léonie Maton as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.

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