Elsa Michaud
Metamorphosia - Film - 15min - 2024
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 26
A twilit island landscape, factories and the ocean. Two women on motorbikes find two limousines abandoned on a beach. Immediately fascinated and obsessed by the vehicles, they decide to repair them as best they can, using chewing gum to plug the hole in the expansion tank. Slowly, the cars start to make sounds, like strangely melodious, heady sirens, as if waking up. The two protagonists have the feeling that the two limousines are trying to communicate with each other and want to tell them something. At night, they smoke cigarillos in the black leather interior. Their connection becomes blurred as the limousines hum and whirr. They sing with the limousines, merge and harmonise with them and understand that the limousines want to return to the ocean.
Elsa Michaud
Elsa Michaud is a director, musician, actress, car stuntwoman and choreographer, who graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2020. Her debut album Driving Dramawas released on the Brussels label Midi Fish. Her concerts, drift performances and choreographies have been produced at the Centre national de la danse, the Ménagerie de verre, the Fondation Fiminco and Mac Val. She is currently writing her first feature-length science fiction film.
