With Varda's latest film, Faces Places (Visages Villages), she returns to her roots in
photography, working with JR as they
travel through the French countryside in his
mobile photo booth to produce monumental photographs of the people (and goats) they meet and paste them on the sides of walls, rocks — even shipping containers piled high on a dock in Le Havre.
He's a serial game jammer that has worked on smaller
mobile games and strange experimental hardware controllers before, and also dabbles in artificial intelligence,
photography and
travelling.