A founding meeting with Gareth Taylor at the University of the French West Indies

Closing the 2025 MoCap Week season to better open what comes next

This meeting at the University of the French West Indies (Université des Antilles) marks a major milestone for ANISOTROPIE, for the Séquences Éphémères project, and for MoCap Week as a whole. It closed MoCap Week’s 2025 season as a final moment of gathering, sharing and dialogue — and as a solid foundation for thinking together about what comes next.

Held in the Hélène Sellaye lecture hall, the meeting put at the heart of the discussion what gives our work its deepest meaning: meeting students, with their questions, their imaginations, sometimes their doubts, but above all their curiosity and their desire to understand and make their own tools and practices still too often seen as distant or out of reach.

During the exchange, motion capture and performance capture were discussed not as mere technologies, but as spaces for creation, storytelling tools and fields of research where the body, acting, interpretation and artistic thinking take centre stage. Film, video games, digital arts, live performance: the conversation brought these disciplines into dialogue, showed how they overlap, and opened concrete prospects for artistic and professional paths rooted here in Martinique while remaining firmly open to the world.

The richness of this moment owes a great deal to the generosity of the speakers. Gareth Taylor, director and performance capture trainer, shared his international experience with great precision and constant attention to the realities of the student audience. His approach, centred on interpretation, acting and directing actors, put technology back in its rightful place: serving people and storytelling.

Alongside him, Georges-Emmanuel Arnaud, director of ANISOTROPIE, presented the vision behind the association’s projects, especially Séquences Éphémères: building a living archive and a space for research and creation around intangible heritage, movement and contemporary forms of writing, using motion capture as a tool for passing on knowledge as much as for creating.

This meeting would not have been possible without the involvement and support of the University of the French West Indies. Special thanks go to Axel Artheron, dean of the Faculté Jean Bernabé – UFR Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines (LLASH), and to the teaching and administrative teams for their welcome and trust. This moment marks real institutional recognition of the work we have done.

For ANISOTROPIE, this meeting is much more than a one-off event. It is a major structuring step in the development of Séquences Éphémères and in rooting MoCap Week locally. It confirms that these projects are finding their audience and, above all, that they meet a real need for passing on knowledge, gaining perspective and looking ahead for younger generations.

By closing the 2025 MoCap Week season with this exchange with the University of the French West Indies and its students, we affirm a strong conviction: motion capture is not an end in itself, but a language, a tool and a field of experimentation serving stories, bodies and territories.

This last event is therefore not a full stop, but a breath — a moment to look back at the road travelled and, above all, to imagine together the next steps, future collaborations, and new forms of research and creation to come.

What comes next starts now.