MONDOCOURAU – Laurent Courau: Surreal Worlds & Creative Technology

When the ghost stories of the Middle Kingdom embody themselves in the Qinghua porcelain...

Chinese Ghost Stories

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When legendary rituals resurface in the nights of our cities, summoning the conflicted spirits of nature in response to the disorder of our post-modern world. Everywhere, ancient traditions awaken to tear apart the veil of a false reality and usher a salutary chaos.

Urban Shamanism

Portfolio

The Tour – A Travel Story to Another Future is a testimony to the tangible manifestation of an imagination that many still consider marginal and delusional, within the mainstream reality of our early 21st century—through travel narratives and atypical portraits.

The Tour

Mixed Media Project

Avec la chute du Mur de Berlin en novembre 1989, finies les années pop et punk ! Place à la contre-culture numérique et à ses excroissances mutantes. Laurent Courau, sur son site La Spirale.org, a suivi le développement de cette aventure.

Mutations pop & crash culture

Book - Livre

A tribute to the vibrant night and artistic scene of Bamako, Mali, in the 1970s, infused with a hint of futurism and afropunk vibrations. Where one envisions the fusion of sub-Saharan African cultures with the punk and glam rock scenes from the last century.

Bamako Afropunk 1977

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When two young high school girls awaken an ancient and terrible curse in the heart of the Korean countryside, with unpredictable consequences.

Korean Country Nightmare

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Where the great beasts dwell.

Cryptozoology

Portfolio

Fangs, black magic rituals, and nocturnal lifestyle… New York, July 2002. Amidst four hundred unleashed vampyres against a backdrop of hardcore techno, metal, and gothic music, Laurent Courau discovers a staggering underground scene whose existence exceeds imagination.

Vampyres

Book - Livre

An alchemical two-headed tale, adapted by Laurent Courau from Thierry Ehrmann’s Abode of Chaos, The Occult Sources unfolds both as a twelve-episode web series, streamed online, and as a feature-length fantasy film.

The Occult Sources

Film & Web Serie

A nod to the "cyberpunk" science-fiction of the 1980s and 1990s, evoking the works of William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Bruce Sterling, alongside the manga of Masamune Shirow, the rebellious comics of Alan Moore and Grant Morrison, and the cyborgs of early films by Shin'ya Tsukamoto.

Hong Kong Cyber City ⦾ 2047

Portfolio

Quelques conseils essentiels pour survivre à l'étrange période que nous traversons.

Manuel de survie pour un monde au bord du chaos

Book - Livre

In the heart of a deep forest, where magic operates far from the gaze of men and their rationalism.

Silva Magica

Portfolio

Strange things are happening in the artistic underground of New York City's Lower East Side in the 1980s.

Downtown 84

Mixed Media

When initiates of the cult gather in the heart of the bayou, waiting for night to fall over the Louisiana swamps.

Voodoo People

Portfolio

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Mutation Magazine

Media - Magazine

Un XXIe siècle irrationnel ? Analyses pluridisciplinaires des pensées « alternatives ».

Un XXIe siècle irrationnel

Book - Livre

As often happens, the future unfolds where it is least expected. At the crossroads of cutting-edge technologies and ancient knowledge, between artificial intelligence, quantum mechanics, and traditional craftsmanship, as is the case here with origami, the Japanese art of folding.

Origami Robotics

Portfolio

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Vampyres

Film - Movie

La Spirale.org

La Spirale.org

Media - Webzine

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Unreal Entities

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Vatican Science-Fiction

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