What is Prelude

As the name, borrowed from the musical field, suggests, this movie is an introducing piece. 

On a wide level, it was conceived as the rooting project of other visual creations to come, including a feature film based on Phillip K. Dick works and life, throught an already written feature film.

Artistically speaking, it introduces a unique story telling grammar led by an urge for delivering a story through multiple perspectives and different degree of cosnciousness. It's like witnessing life through a prisme: it combines in a single frame what seems fragmented in different pieces. It's because of this apparent disparity, this fragmentation of the living, that pain comes. And it's only by understanding, or feeling, the emotional links in betweens the fragments that harmony can be restaured.

In Prelude, this concept is pushed towards its limits and rafined to avoid falling into an experimental unclarity. The movie remains explicit in the subjects treated: depression, destructive to suicidal thoughts. It also tackles our tendency to fantasize an escape from reality and how evilness florishes and spreads from this passive behaviour.

Living is like breathing. It's a reflex we don't question until, for some of us, the machine doesn't work properly anymore and answering the question "Why keep on going?" is a constant fight to be answered.

In its quest for reponses, the story takes from the existentialism of Tolstoï and combines it with the surrealism of Philip K. Dick. It is French in its poetics but contains yet an untypical roughness.