Le mal d’Hercule (Hercules’ Sickness) is a short-length film produced during a creative residency in the Institut de Neuroscience des Systèmes, “Physiology & Physiopathology of Neuronal Networks Group (PhysioNet)”, an INSERM laboratory in Marseilles, France, working on epilepsy. Researchers’ answers to my queries along with my own investigations on the matter led me to think about a sensible and metaphorical reappropriation, that diverts from scientific truth. From shot footage of images of the laboratory and waves and the text from the tragedy of Euripides, Herakles, I recreated a visual narration of epilepsy as a deep unconscious state and a latent ache fighting over raw violence, outlined by the soundtrack as an evocation of the tragic chorus.

Le mal d’Hercule is part of “La recherche de l’art”, a partnership INSERM/ENSP.

More info about Le mal d’hercule.

Other projects in “La recherche de l’art #5” and a virtual tour in the previous editions of “La recherche de l’art” program.

Also, around the theme of illness, I’d like to recommend the beautiful video work Mental Radio by Tobias Yves Zintel.