Season 5
Stories to project us,
to open us,
to connect us,
to regenerate us,
stories to understand.
Supported by Creative Europe (Media), StoryTANK has been fostering a close collaboration between the worlds of research and storytellers since 2020.
Each season aims to provide a new angle of exploration around the notion of storytelling, its physiological and social functions, illuminated by this dialogue between researchers and authors, screenwriters, playwrights, and more.
The first four seasons were fueled by discussions and deciphering the creative processes that lead to stories, their role in supporting our imaginations, and their ability to help us construct or understand.
As part of its 5th season, the StoryTANK team decided to try a new experiment, led by six captivated and captivating researchers. The goal was to test and film 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. The experiment was off ered to 6 screenwriters or fi lmmakers 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. This experiment is a first.
Deciphered throughout the pages—and also to be found on the StoryTANK web platform and in videos via QR codes— through feedback…
“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 Groupe Ouest, a unique richness and plurality is emerging before our eyes— exciting and stimulating, in a porous relationship with the world and a logic of constant mutual support.”
— Antoine Le Bos | Screenwriter, Founder & Director of Le Groupe Ouest
