— OUR SUCCESSES —
ANTARCTICA,
THE EXHIBITION
In 2015, ten years after March of the Penguins, director Luc Jacquet, accompanied by photographers Vincent Munier and Laurent Ballesta, is leading a unique expedition in the world. The meeting between the expedition teams and the Confluences museum in Lyon gives rise to a sensitive and unique exhibition, a true ode to polar biodiversity and its protection.
More than an exhibition,
a journey !
TERRA INCOGNITA,
THE EXPERIENCE
Six years after ANTARCTICA, Lyon’s Musée des Confluences once again opens its doors to Luc Jacquet for an exhibition, from Patagonia to the South Pole: TERRA INCOGNITA, RENDEZ-VOUS AU BOUT DU MONDE.
TERRA INCOGNITA invites visitors to enjoy a unique, immersive experience: a journey from Patagonia to the South Pole, through soundscapes and black-and-white film sequences projected onto a giant, moving structure. With this exhibition, Luc Jacquet follows in the footsteps of the great explorers and shares the «fever» of Antarctica, that magnetic attachment to polar lands that are nonetheless inaccessible and inhospitable.
COLLAPSE,
AN IMMERSIVE SOUND MANIFESTO
COLLAPSE is a collection of immersive audio works imagined by Luc Jacquet. It plunges the listener into the heart of extreme natural phenomena. We bring the microphone where the chances of survival are zero…
Visitors are entering into a closed space. In the utter blackness, they refocus on their senses. A powerful emotional experience begins.
With COLLAPSE, Luc Jacquet is sharing with visitors a wake-up call to a world that is changing and where nature is under threat.
Melting ice
The experience plunges the audience into the center of the action during one of the most worrying phenomena on the planet: the break-up of the biggest glaciers in the polar regions.
We are on the edge of the Antarctic continent, under the vast cliffs of the Astrolabe Glacier.
It is spring in the Southern Hemisphere, that extraordinary time when life returns to the small nearby islands after the forbidding polar winter. Penguins, seals and seabirds all come back at this time of year to give birth to their young. There are tens of thousands of them. Except this year, temperatures have never been so high…
Created for Tech For Planet, this audio installation was then taken to the Natural History Museum in Neuchâtel, the National Museum of Singapore and, for the last Nuit Blanche, to the forecourt of the Cité des Sciences in Paris, in partnership with Devialet.
Loss of Biodiversity
Hedged farmland in Normandy. Stretching from the 1950s to today, this audio experience confronts listeners with the
reduction in biodiversity through a symphony that declines in intensity.
We are in an area of hedged farmland in France, early on an April morning. It’s spring, that special time of year when all the birds and insects sing, creating an outpouring of sound. The experience begins some forty years ago.
The years pass, and the listener notices that all the soloists,
the instrumentalists of this animal concert are gradually disappearing, impoverishing the production, as if musicians little by little stopped the pieces they were in the process of playing.
Forest fire
This experience recounts the progression of a fire that will devastate hundreds of hectares of forest.
A major fire in a forest is a wave, it’s like a tsunami coming through. Its beginnings can be
heard from a distance, a general warning is sounded. Panic ensues. The animals shriek. Those that can, flee – running, flying. The fire can be heard approaching. The tree trunks explode, the nearby stream dries up in the heat. The fire submerges us, and then moves away. Silence falls.
Deforestation
This experience is the result of Luc’s work in the tropical forests of Gabon. It relates the various phases of deforestation and its impact on the biodiversity of these forests.
When you enter a primary forest, it is teeming and noisy. An initial team of men arrives to disrupt the symphony, marking out the trees to be cut. The great apes and birds are on alert. A second team comes through to build vast access roads. This first clearance work frightens and displaces the animals.
And now it’s time to cut. We hear the cutting front approaching.
At the foot of a giant marked for felling, we will experience its fall. The deafening noise of chain saws, the creak of the trunk as it falls and, suddenly, an intense silence.
— THEMES IN DEVELOPMENT —
Over the coming months and years, Luc Jacquet and his teams will be setting off on expeditions to collect images of:
Galapagos • Coral reefs
— AVAILABLE THEMES —
During their latest expeditions, Luc Jacquet and the ICEBREAKER teams produced and recorded unique images and sounds of:
Antarctica • Icebergs • Caspian seals • Rainforests • A collection of sound experiences
RAINFORESTS
AN ODE TO THE FOREST, LIVING AND INHABITED
Trees seem silent and immobile, yet they are prodigiously alive. This project takes us into the fascinating world of plants and trees.
The primary rainforests, like Amazonia, are home to one of the most abundant fauna and flora on the planet. Life abounds on all levels, animals and plants are interconnected. You have to change your perspective to observe the constant interactions between trees, but also between trees and animals. We can see that trees deploy strategies to compensate for their immobility. They use mobile beings to live, reproduce and even travel. They are also true virtuosos of biochemistry, capable of communicating by sending out scents.
This exhibition is a journey that invites us to discover this «plant intelligence» and forces us to rethink the way we see the world and consider trees and plants.
THE CASPIAN SEAL
AN ENDANGERED SPECIES
Like other endangered species, the Caspian seal is prey to melting ice and oil exploitation, which are damaging its habitat, as well as poaching, which is threatening its main food resource, caviar. Its population has fallen by 90% over the last 100 years. There are now only around 100,000 individuals living in the Caspian Sea. Find out more about this endemic species, its particular characteristics, the threats it faces and the measures that are taken and will be needed to protect it.
ANTARCTICA EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS, LIFE ON THE EDGE
Antarctica EXPERIENCE offers a unique opportunity to set foot in Antarctica, this continent dedicated to scientific missions, through unbelievable images, Antarctica Experience takes you on a journey of visual and audio immersion, on and under the ice floe. Wonderment guaranteed.
The journey begins with a cinematic teaser, the visitor heads towards Antarctica, sailing with the whales. After this introduction, he discovers the cartography room before entering the explorers’ cloakroom where the men are busy with long and meticulous preparations. Then, the visitor is invited to dive alongside Weddell seals, Emperor penguins and Adelies into the depths of the Southern Ocean. Immersed, guided by the divers, he discovers the abundant life of the seabed. Returning to the surface, surrounded by screens several meters high, he witnesses scenes of the daily life of the penguin colonies, immersed in the beauty of the ice floe that stretches as far as the eye can see.
ICEBERGS GIANTS OF ICE, OBJECTS OF FEAR AND FANTASY
“When I arrived at the Larsen platform on my last trip to Antarctica, one thing struck me: the emptiness.
The emptiness left by the icebergs, the mountains of ice that were there but eventually broke away
from the glacier. We came across them further out, drifting on the Southern Ocean. Like a symbol of something disappearing.
I couldn’t help but observe them, mindful of the fate that awaited them. I became attached to them as if they were characters with their own personalities and idiosyncrasies. And I want to share that unique feeling with visitors , to let themselves be won over by the icebergs and what emanates from them.”
Luc Jacquet’s films have been released in more than 80 countries and received numerous awards worldwide.
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