TASTE №4 — Mirage

a twist in the frame

Vallée Duhamel is the Montréal-based duo of Julien Vallée and Eve Duhamel, known for their high-class, lo-fi creations that bend reality with precision and play. Blending cinematic craft with surreal invention, their work transforms everyday scenes into whimsical visual experiments. From Apple and Google to Hermès and Coca-Cola, they bring a signature mix of elegance and mischief to global campaigns. Now integrating AI tools into their filmmaking practice, they continue to push the edges of visual storytelling — where structure slips, and imagination takes over.

 

 

a soft echo

Herinarivo Rakotomanana is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work drifts between introspective fiction and music videos rooted in the urban and Afro scenes of Paris and Congo. Blending poetic narrative with experimental form, Rakotomanana’s films explore memory, migration, and identity through a lens of quiet intensity. Since the early days of GANs, he has navigated AI’s latent space to craft sensorial, fragmented visions—where emotion emerges not from story arcs, but from texture, rhythm, and fleeting impressions. His 2025 short More Tears Than Harm—a tender AI-driven collage of childhood memories from Madagascar—affirms his place in a new vanguard of emotionally resonant, technologically experimental cinema.

 

flora and fauna

Laura Buechner is an artist, co-founder and creative director, extending the fashion and beauty disciplines wtih AI couture. Based in Southern Germany, she holds a Master’s degree in Fashion Design with distinction from Kingston University London, with her work showcased twice at London Fashion Week and featured in Vogue UK and Vogue Italia’s talent supplement. With over a decade of experience spanning the casual premium to luxury fashion sectors, Buechner seamlessly merges her technical expertise and creative vision to explore the transformative potential of AI in fashion.

 

 

a geometry of faith

Kirill Semenovich, also known as Pale Kirill, is a digital artist and designer with a background in architecture, whose work blends spiritual symbolism with spatial abstraction. His 2024 project The Book of Hope, presented by Artie Galerie, reimagines the basketball court as sacred ground — a floating, shifting arena where human ambition meets divine geometry. Using AI and custom typography, Semenovich crafts bold, lucid visuals that hover between collage and scripture, motion and stillness. His practice distills movement, space, and belief into a language of vibrant symbols — inviting us to see play not just as action, but as aspiration.

 

love letter

Paul Trillo is a writer, director, and visual experimenter whose work bends time, memory, and technology into poetic disruption. His recent project — a psychedelic love letter to Los Angeles — reimagines the city as a kaleidoscopic dreamscape rooted in Chicano culture and emotional truth. With 19 Vimeo Staff Picks and features in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone, Trillo’s practice spans from short films to AI-driven visuals, earning recognition from D&AD, The One Show, and SXSW.

 

lo-fi resurrection

Fulano de Bergerac is a digital artist whose work blends AI generation with Photoshop to create vivid, glitchy fever dreams. His images fuse lo-fi textures, surreal iconography, and absurdist humor — where cowboys, bears, saints, and spacemen collide in radioactive landscapes. Rooted in experimental collage, his practice embraces chaos, treating AI as a co-conspirator in visual mischief.

 

 

a slow collapse

Nomads & Vagabonds is a post-photographic artist navigating the edges of AI, image, and infrastructural decay. Their debut series Soft Collapse reimagines architecture as metaphor — a slow-motion crumbling of systems both built and believed in. Combining generative tools with compositional rigor, their images distort cityscapes, domestic interiors, and algorithmic logic into layered environments where space unravels. Equal parts digital archaeology and speculative fiction, their work exists in the tension between beauty and failure — a visual index of entropy rendered in ultra-resolution.