Franco-Algerian Neil Beloufa, born in 1985, graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and then the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He completed his training in the United States at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and the Cooper Union in New York. Neil Beloufa’s videos create atmospheres where all logic seems lost, dissect icons of popular culture, question Western stereotypes and utopias, and depict our world in images, its lies and its dreams. They cast the alert gaze of a young cosmopolitan artist on our myths.

In Brune Renault, Neil Beloufa continues his exploration of cinematic language. He seeks out the limits of the genre and attempts to transcend them in the field of visual arts.

A parking lot, a red Renault driving around in circles. Drama or romance, the four teenagers are the protagonists of a laid-back road movie, typical of classic French cinema. They struggle to behave like professional actors; they are trapped in a story with no beginning and no end. The viewer, meanwhile, is drawn into the action thanks to the highly convincing atmosphere, the tracking shots, the sound, the lighting, and the set: a wrecked car, cut into pieces, raised on a pedestal in which the actors are seated. When the camera pulls back, the sitcom becomes a sculpture. The teenagers are brutally unmasked, the already empty script dissolves into disbelief once again.