We asked him how he and Cater merged their two distinct artistic worlds to reinvent genre cinema, transforming iconic visual codes into something intensely personal.

In fact, Hélène and I have two different universes.

Me, I come more from like genre movies, like Italian and Japanese genre movies from the 60s, 70s that I really like because they are very fun to watch, but there is a research in a way they are kind of experimental, if we can say that.

And Hélène, she comes more from an experimental area, like Chris Marker or Maya Deren.

And so the thing is that we don't pay homage to a genre, but we try to tell our own story each time through this genre.

Because, in fact, for instance, for giallo movies or Italian western movies, the codes of this genre are graphic.

Because you have two big directors behind this genre, Dario Argento and Sergio Leone.

The conversation also explored the broader artistic influences behind his work and how movements beyond cinema, from Art Nouveau to Op Art, shape the identity of each project.