A tribute to painter, theatre designer, and scenographer Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943), this video offers a digital reimagining of the Cabinet of Figures, originally created in 1922 at the Bauhaus school. Conceived during a residency in 2009, it features students embodying the spirits of the place, transfigured through artificial intelligence — a kind of “cinematic modelling clay” capable of teleporting the Bauhaus of Weimar into a new audiovisual materiality.
The original soundtrack, composed by Rainier Lericolais, enhances the geometric dimension of the piece, weaving a subtle link between futuristic past and contemporary avant-garde.
A generative film by David Legrand
Music: Rainier Lericolais
Ghost of Oskar Schlemmer: Murat Haschu
Production : Isabelle Carlier
Acknowledgements : Werkleitz – Zentrum für Medienkunst (Halle, Saxe-Anhalt), Anne Körning (Bauhaus Film-Institut), les étudiants du Bauhaus-Universität de Weimar
Format: AI video, HD, black and white, sound
Duration: 12 min 10
Year: 2011–2023
A NOVA ERA PLÁSTICA
Based on The Love Life of the Octopus by Jean Painlevé and Geneviève Hamon – 1965
A generative film by David Legrand
Sound creation: Rainier Lericolais
Text, narration and voice: David Legrand
Format: AI video, 2K, color, sound
Duration: 7 minutes 04
Year: 2022
France-Portugal
A true visual poem on decay and transfiguration, The Post-Human Condition envisions a future where the last remnants of humanity dissolve, only to be reborn as hybrid figures — transfigured into grotesque vegetal forms, echoing the surrealist portraits of the Italian Mannerist painter Arcimboldo.
These bodies, fusions of decomposing flesh and organic textures, embody an art of putrefaction, orchestrated by cleansing AIs and mystical androids — disciples of a contemporary art in decomposition.
In this underworld, faces recomposed as collages of rotting vegetables and mouldy fruits become relics of a danse macabre at the heart of a corrupted world.
Rot becomes the matrix of an unheard consciousness —
a silent revenge of nature
upon the remains of humanity.
A generative film by David Legrand
Sound design : Philippe Zunino
Narrator: Florence Delin
Format: AI video, HD, color, sound
Duration: 6 minutes 23
Year: 2024
Neither an artist nor a scholar as they were known in the 20th century, Berrybeuys was the hybrid of a modest farmer and a visionary thinker. He had absorbed the ideas of Joseph Beuys and transformed them into a new philosophy of life — within a Berry of biofuturist invention.
Generative film by David Legrand
Sound design : Philippe Zunino
Narrator: Florence Delin
Format: AI video, HD, color, sound
Duration: 5 minutes 35
Year: 2024
