At the beginning of 2018, I’ve learned about Jonas Mekas at the time of his passing. Impressed with his ideas, I began to periodically document moments of mundane great beauty as a way to dedicate myself to it. The project is named Rien de Spécial, which translates to “nothing special”, because life’s great beauty is mostly in these little imperfect “nothings” of life.

I’ve struggled for a long time to understand how all these captured moments would translate into a coherent idea, something I knew but couldn’t yet articulate. After sitting on the material for about a year, I’ve decided that the common denominator across the movie was that human experience is universal, something that I underlined in the movie by removing as much context as possible in the scenes, while leaving some clues behind, hence tricking the audience to immerse itself by reconstructing the context in a patchwork of their own experience, the clues and the actual scenes.

I shot, edited and scored the project.