The latent space has become my documentary territory.

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Filmmaker and artist, Paris. I build the computational instruments of my films.

I make films about things that leave no footage: online identities, cybercrime infrastructure, digital events that happened without witnesses. The AI I work with is a method for imaging what cannot be filmed.

César 2022 for Best Documentary Short (Maalbeek). Semaine de la Critique (Cannes), Annecy, IDFA, Clermont-Ferrand, Hot Docs. Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica. Prix Révélation Art Numérique (ADAGP). Associate artist at the Centquatre-Paris. Resident at Villa Albertine. Alumnus of Le Fresnoy and INSAS.

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• The Goldberg Variations: hybrid feature on Joshua Ryne Goldberg, a case of construction of online identities. Villa Albertine / Films Grand Huit.
• Virus: hybrid feature on Mihai Ionut Paunescu, who ran a bulletproof hosting service at the core of major malware campaigns (Gozi, Zeus, SpyEye).
• Spectre: one intelligence layer across all my machines. A single memory and context over multiple workstations, with an agentic CLI as the operating layer.

Tools I build for my own practice, released as they stabilize.

How the practice actually works: configs, benchmarks, methods, documented from the inside.

• ai-cinema-method: AI as artistic method
• agentic-cli-filmmaker: how a filmmaker runs an agentic CLI daily
• open-source-cinema: RAW filmmaking with hacked cameras and open hardware
• stegg-lab: steganography and media provenance for post-deepfake documentary

Writing from inside an AI-native practice. The reference versions live on my site; the working repositories are here.

• posseder-les-mains: Own the hands, rent the brain, on sovereign infrastructures for AI-assisted creation
• ne-pas-casser-la-machine: on AI anxiety, don't break the machine, own it
• le-clavier-mal-tempere: the artist's gesture in latent space, after Bach
• la-langue-n-existe-pas: an LLM reads no language, only tokens, and the token is an engineering decision
• le-bon-format-n-existe-pas: the right format does not exist, it depends who is reading
• souverainete-numerique-critique: a critique of the concept of digital sovereignty, and the lexicons that could replace it
• deep-research: research notes from a filmmaker working with computational instruments
• risque-catastrophique-2026: what can be known about a catastrophe before it happens, its shape and not its date

My studio runs as an agentic system: a fleet of five machines under a single memory, autonomous agent teams, verification harnesses, reporting pipelines. I engineer it myself, and the same systems apply to organizations. Selected public work:

• ai-agentic-methods: reusable agentic methods, and nine lessons from taking an agent-run document service to production: blind backtesting against human review, source anchoring, transparent correction loops, engine agnosticism
• decentralized-compute-sota: a verified state of the art of decentralized AI compute
• autonomie-llm-local-2026: sovereign local LLM hardware, from memory bandwidth up
• guide-location-compute: renting compute to create with AI: the five tiers, billing traps, remote control, the VRAM ladder, carbon at two levels
• glossaire-ia-art-cinema: a working glossary of AI, art and cinema, written from practice
• affordance-inference: affordance and inference as tools to think creation with generative models
• evaluer-les-modeles: evaluating models by phase of work rather than by domain

For consulting, audits and applied AI systems: contact via site.

_{Selected works}

Maalbeek, 2020	Swatted, 2018	Madotsuki_the_dreamer, 2023
Virtual Kintsugi, 2023	Ondes noires, 2017

Commissions and co-productions · artistic direction · auteur AI work for film, installation and exhibition · applied agentic systems for organizations · talks, workshops and masterclasses.

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