According to legend, Faust made a pact with the devil, played by Mephistopheles, in exchange for the latter's help in realizing his desires.
The work addresses many themes such as the quest for knowledge, the temptation of evil and the quest for eternity.

Every year around the world, there are travel conferences. Sometimes it is accompanied by music.

A pianist friend, who had to accompany an actor and a tenor, asked me if it would be possible to create an illustration of each of the pieces to accompany them in projection.
Here is the result.

Based on costume models by Marcel Multzer (1910) for La damnation de Faust and music by Hector Berlioz.

Pictorialism allows you to play with time. The ambient shots were taken between 2015 and 2018 in France and Scotland.