It all began with dinners in town and the inevitable "nostalgia scenes"; it continued with the myths of "adolescence", which today have led the 80s generation to spend hours wiggling their hips to the sounds of Casimir and Chantal Goya.
At the age of 30, Arnaud Gerber resigned himself to it: "Pop songs, the ones you hear all the time, are the new hooks on which we hang our collective memory: Proust's madeleines for a younger generation." Although the hero of his "story in reverse" refuses to grow up and goes back to when he was a teenager to the sounds of Mylène Farmer, Desireless and others, Arnaud, for his part, has shown that he knows where he is going: training as a scriptwriter with the European Conservatoire for Audiovisual Writing (CEEA), numerous seminars and summer schools followed by advertisements for Canal+ and more, and today, he has a number of projects in the bag. As far as short (12') films go, he is looking for financing. On the feature-film side, he is working on Rien Que Nous 2, a surrealist tale, for Marc Productions, and Le Syndrome de Didon, a psychological thriller, the final screenplay of which is already available. And Peter Pan.FM is now flying solo.
"The work I do is hard to pigeonhole," says Arnaud. Long may it last.

Achievements since winning the grant

Arnaud has written the short films RTTisé and Une Belle Histoire, and was involved in the film Traversée(s), which was presented at the 2003 Berlinale and was the 2005 winner of the Brouillon d’Un Rêve grant from the SCAM (a non-trading multimedia development company). He has also self-produced two short films: Je Est Une Particule, a piece of experimental fiction produced as part of a workshop shooting on Mount Etna, and Terra(e) Incognita(e), an experimental documentary. He is currently filming Sans Défense(s), a baroque symphony without words or a denouement.