Virusland is an imaginary chronicle documenting the development of a form of life subjected to virality and lockdown.
“Virusland” does not refer to a region of the globe but to a form of life. It reaches us by contagion. Geographical contagion, from one region to another, and metaphysical contagion, from fiction to reality. The anguish that dominates *Virusland* is not only due to the fear of sickness. It has to do with what Freud calls “Unheimlichkeit”: when reality mixes with fiction.
Biography
This film is co-directed by Pierre Cassou-Noguès et Gwenola Wagon. Pierre Cassou-Noguès is a philosopher and writer, professor at Université Paris-VIII Vincennes Saint-Denis. He is also co-editor of the journal SubStance. Gwenola Wagon is an artist and assistant professor. She is the co-director of the masters at ArTeC – EUR ArTeC, Paris Lumières University.
