An Interview with Vincent Morisset, interactive film director

Abstract

Vincent Morisset is a rare type of author: he is an interactive film director (Hales, 2015). His work travels across a wide spectrum of media, genres, and formats, moving from web-based music videoclips to physical interactive installations, collaborative mobile application poetry. In collaboration with his colleagues at Studio AATOAA, his work has been showcased and honored at some of the world's most prestigious film festivals and new media art exhibitions. In an ever-changing media landscape, the role of the interactive author has been difficult to decipher as we still find ourselves in a terminological babel (Koetniz et al, 2020) due to the multimodality and intermediality of digital interactive art (Elleström, 2010). It is through the voices of the interactive authors that we can gain insight into the nature of these artworks (Kitromili and Reyes, 2023). In the following interview, Morisset reflects on the author's role, the nature of the interactive work, and the relationship between the author and with the interactors of the work.