Plateau, a film by Victor Bastidas

Plateau is a series of films produced and directed by Victor Bastidas, through which he aims to explore how art works as a meditation which deals with frustration and anger, bring peace to the one who practices it, in any form: dancing, painting, designing, poetry, music. The first of these films sees a dancer as the protagonist, Table Kevin, who expresses art and beauty through the freedom and the contemporaneity of his dancing poses, mixed with experimentation in the style in which the film is executed. Shot in film, it features a sequence of stunning visuals with a cinematic feel and impressionistic narrative travelling between time and space. The film is composed of moments that happen in real time, in the past, and in the future, all mixed up displaying a journey of sorts. It's conceived in the style of a music video, a mix of cinematic takes of Paris architecture, where we find Table Kevin using the cities brutalist architecture as his canvas. Concrete complexes and austere towers set the scene. Along the way he jumps in and out of different places, dancing in various locations which bring him from indoor to outdoor spaces. The dancer leads and choreographs his Voguing, typically angular and explosive, to create an unexpected gracefulness, almost mechanical. The idea of the film is to bring light combined to a cinematic look and feel, to show that grace can be found everywhere, calling the viewer to look at the urban landscape in a different way. The perfect blue sk