The Fade of Day is a short film made in the urgency that followed the birth of my daughter, in which I explore my experience of fatherhood through certain codes of horror cinema — more specifically, the "home invasion" subgenre.

Upon her arrival in my life, I was overwhelmed by an intense and immediate wave of vulnerability, enough to throw me completely off balance. I quickly found myself struggling to embrace my new role as a father, as a powerful and unexpected urge to flee took hold of me. Where did this feeling come from? How could I be overcome by a force that seemed so contrary to my very nature? Surely, I am not the only one to have experienced such an impulse. After all, the figure of the absent or fleeing father is sadly, still deeply rooted in our sociocultural landscape.

In an effort to confront this anxiety, I instinctively turned to cinema. My camera became my diary, and the editing room, my writing tool. The result, created intuitively and without a script, took the form of a raw, fragmented film, combining various mixed media techniques to reflect the spontaneous nature of my creative process.