The selections
Looking for ideas? Find inspiration in the thematic selections of the Institut français or in those of its partners.
2024
Ito Meikyū is an immersive virtual reality experience inspired by Japanese art history and literature, including Fukinuki Yatai, Le Dit du Genji and Les Notes de Chevet. This work offers a sensory fresco rich in emotion. You'll discover a digital labyrinth combining drawn, animated and sound scenes, where fractal architecture, plants, objects, animals, characters and calligraphy meet. You're free to choose your path, and each choice leads you into a unique universe. It's a poetic and visual exploration in which you become both spectator and actor, in a game of hide-and-seek with a fascinating and mysterious world.
Trends
Digital artists offer new perspectives on major contemporary issues and the transformations underway in our society.
Highlights
Programming ideas in tune with the year's major events! Discover the events shaping digital creation in France and the French creations that have shone in international festivals!
Expertises
Selections designed to guide you in identifying the know-how and resources adapted to specific programming formats.
18 pros
Themes
Rich and diverse subjects to discover, which can enrich your cultural programming. In the spotlight this month, a selection of digital works exploring the complex world of teenagers.
Institut français programs
The Institut français provides the French cultural network abroad (Institut français, Alliances Françaises, cultural services of French embassies around the world) and its partners with specific tools to help them build their cultural actions.
Binge: For all your digital series cravings
The Institut français introduces a new program exclusively for the French cultural network abroad dedicated to French digital series entitled "Binge". With their rise to prominence in recent years, short and digital series have garnered a growing audience, catalyzing innovative approaches to cultural creation and consumption. This initiative aims to highlight the richness and creativity of this specific format of content creation. So feel free to immerse yourself and satisfy your digital series cravings with no restraint!
Putting the spotlight on mobile creation with Unlock
Cellphones have become integral parts of our daily lives, fostering the emergence of new artistic content. In order to promote these new formats and cultural consumption models, and to provide support to the creative sector, the Institut français has curated a catalog of French digital creations specifically designed for mobile devices. "Unlock" brings together twelve artworks in different formats: Augmented Reality experiences, mobile video games, webtoons, podcasts and innovative reading experiences.
Immerse your audience in the Institut français' VR catalog
France benefits from a strong international recognition in the field of virtual reality. French productions are often selected and awarded in festivals across the world. The Institut français invites the French cultural network abroad to present the creativity and diversity of French works internationally, thanks to "La Sélection VR", a catalog which includes over thirty VR works of reference.
Exhibition : Escape, digital generations
The Institut français is presenting the French cultural network abroad and its partners with a new exhibition focused on the key contemporary issues of the digital world. Following the success of a similar initiative over the past two years, Escape, digital generations offers an educational and engaging exploration of digital cultures, featuring around twenty creations that combine digital art, video games, and virtual reality experiences.
This exhibition will be available for circulation in the cultural network's institutions and those of their partners starting in November 2024 for a period of two years. It includes a variety of workshop suggestions and mediation guidelines suitable for all audiences.
La Collection
La Collection is a new platform exclusively for members of the French cultural network abroad. Its goal is to offer a flexible and easily distributable selection of French cultural content to enrich programming and expand collaboration with partners.
