Flaneur Films

When Night Falls

Currently shown at CCA Berlin

"The video work unfolds across five screens, tracing seven seemingly unrelated locations—from Europe's largest flower farm to the National Institute for Blind Youth in Paris. Baudelaire weaves these disparate sites into a meditation on the splendor and cruelty of coexistence: a testament to the beauty and absurdity of how we live, work, and organize our collective lives at a moment when the foundations of society feel increasingly fractured. The exhibition takes its title from Roland Barthes' final lecture series, How to Live Together (1977), in which he observes: "To be strangers to one another is inevitable, even necessary and desirable—except when night falls." Held against that threshold, the work opens a space to reflect upon the conditions we create for living together, ones that preserve difference and dignity, as darkness settles in all around us.“ CCA Berlin

Credits

Director, Producer

Éric Baudelaire

Director of photography

Claire Mathon

Sound recording and mix

Éric Lesachet

Editing & spatialization

Claire Atherton

Co-producer

Zsuzsanna Kiràly – Flaneur Films

Technical information

France, Germany 2026
Five-channel video and sound installation ·

Funding provided by

Ministère de la Culture – Mondes Nouveaux
and
Medienboard Experimental Fund

Distributor

CCA Berlin

Bio/Filmo

Éric Baudelaire is an artist and filmmaker based in Paris, France. Trained as a political scientist, he developed a research-based artistic practice that spans photography, moving image, installation, and per-formance. His feature films have been presented at major film festivals such as the Berlinale, Locarno, and the New York Film Festival, and within exhibitions where they appear as part of larger installations combining other works, archival materials, and extensive public pro-grammes. In recent years, his work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, MMK Frankfurt, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Museo Reina Sofia, Bergen Kunsthall, Kunstinstitut Melly, Fridericianum, Beirut Art Center, and Gasworks, as well as in the São Paulo Biennial, Whitney Biennial, Sharjah Biennial, Taipei Biennial, and currently in the Venice Biennale.