Antoine Chapon
My Own Landscapes

Single-channel video (colour, sound), 18:42

Within the French and American armies, virtual reality prepares soldiers for their future battles. It is also used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after their baptism of fire. In My Own Landscapes, filmmaker Antoine Chapon meets Cyril, a former military video game designer and veteran who is dealing with the return to civilian life and loss of identity.

Using the same tools used to create combat simulations, Cyril constructs his own world as a means of escaping the reality of civilian life and the constant presence of PTSD.

Antoine Chapon is an artist and filmmaker based in Paris. His works create dynamic links and tensions between cinema, CGI animations and archives to question the concept of identity through the relationship between memory, image and new technologies. In his artistic practice, migratory tales, PTSD and algorithms of facial recognition appear as situations and tools.