SAISONS | StoryTANK

“With StoryTANK, we are collaborating on a very joyful ferment driven by the vitality of a renewed generation of authors and researchers grappling with the world as it is becoming. By bringing them together within the West Group, a unique richness and plurality is being formed before our eyes — exciting and stimulating, in a porous relationship with the world and in a logic of permanent mutual aid.”

Antoine Le Bos

Season 5

As part of its 5th season, the StoryTANK team decided to try a new experiment, led by six captivated and captivating researchers. e goal was to test and fi lm the emergence of story ideas in experimental settings created by THE FACTORY OF WORLDS—a unique facility in Europe that has been under construction at Groupe Ouest since 2023, under the aegis of the French Ministry of Culture. e experiment was offered to 6 screenwriters or filmmakers from 6 European countries. The StoryTANK allows us to explore and shed light on the practices of fiction writers, at a precise moment when story generation is being transformed by the digital revolutions, from artifi cial intelligence to algorithms. Also, at a time when our social, political, and ecological benchmarks are faltering. The StoryTANK focuses here on three experimental prototypes: 1 the Cave, 2 the Black Room, and 3 the Plateau. is experiment is a fi rst. Deciphered throughout the pages—and also to be found on the StoryTANK web platform and in videos via QR codes— through feedback…

Season 3

StoryTANK video interviews gathering researchers and story specialists, facing experienced screenwriters

Season 2

StoryTANK video interviews gathering researchers and story specialists, facing experienced screenwriters

Ten researchers and story specialists, facing four experienced screenwriters and two interviewers, all filmed by Les Parasites – creators of L’Effondrement (The Collapse): here is the cast composing this second StoryTANK season – the European Think Tank bringing together screenwriters & researchers.

Massamba Guèye
Massamba Guèye