UNIVERSE
Flore and Cynthia — it’s like the Ridley Scott movie. Between the conception of the film in 1990 and its release in 1991, they project themselves into that world. But this time, it’s not about robbing a grocery store — it’s about their own heist of cinema
They meet in a burst of laughter and recognize in each other the same desire, the same quest.
It all begins with a feeling: without being activists, we have always struggled to fit into what society offers us. It’s as if we were placed sightly to the side, unable to care much about the world, unable to find a place in it, yet never quite able to reject it either. Every attempt at inclusion ends in failure. It’s like a thick fog, or a Munch painting. That’s where inner solitude begins.
If nothing echoes within me, if nothing resonates, how can I live?
A single force unites us — something that dwells within. A perpetual regeneration.
A need to constantly renew ourselves, to go further, deeper. She and I recognize ourselves in that. So we searched together — for how to live, how to find our place, how to find a home.
But not a home that separates us from the street or from nature — a home without walls, without gates, without boundaries. A home where everything can bloom.
Since our identities are fluid and multifaceted, since it’s hard for us to define ourselves, since we long to blend in and multiply our chances of merging with the world — we created this site. Here are our intertwined universes. One foot in the performing arts, the other in cinema, both of us seeking an art that allows us to transcend reality.
But what does it mean, “to transcend reality”?
We believe that reality is multiple — not in the sense that each person builds their own at the expense of what surrounds them, but in the sense that there are many ways to conceive, shaped by our beliefs, cultures, and experiences. We believe that this is precisely what constitutes the richness of humanity.
To transcend it means to immerse oneself in difference, to venture into the unknown, to move ever closer to what unites us — to what makes us one.
There’s a theory that says we — humans, animals, trees, plants, even the less-living things like rocks — all come from the same atom. In that sense, it’s easier to understand how we share 50% of our DNA with a banana.
My DNA has more in common with a banana than with my grandmother.
That’s something to think about…
So, in our so-called evolved era — one that has still not managed to eradicate hunger, war, corruption, or domination, and where chaos slips into the highest spheres of power — we believe that, as artists, it is better to remind people of the importance of solidarity and tolerance.
For that, we will speak of the beauty of life, in all its forms.
Because we believe that by creating togetherness, by dreaming collectively, by becoming one with a shared reality, we find our anchoring in life.