{"id":16601,"date":"2026-08-18T05:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/video\/delete-forever\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T05:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:29:49","slug":"delete-forever","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/video\/delete-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Delete Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chaque jour, des milliers de personnes choisissent de supprimer leurs contenus des r\u00e9seaux sociaux. YouTube, notamment, regorge de vid\u00e9os amateurs \u00e9ph\u00e9m\u00e8res o\u00f9 les internautes partagent leur quotidien. Bien que rapidement effac\u00e9es, ces vid\u00e9os offrent un aper\u00e7u authentique de nos soci\u00e9t\u00e9s connect\u00e9es. Delete Forever propose une d\u00e9marche quasi rituelle pour pr\u00e9server ces vid\u00e9os personnelles. Face \u00e0 la perte de contr\u00f4le sur nos donn\u00e9es personnelles en ligne, ceux qui ont d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de se d\u00e9connecter ont peut-\u00eatre trouv\u00e9 une solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Every day, thousands of people choose to remove their content from social media. YouTube, in particular, is home to a large number of ephemeral amateur videos in which people express themselves about their daily lives. Although soon deleted, these clips do present a sincere landscape of our connected societies. Delete Forever proposes a ritualistic way of safeguarding these personal videos. Given the loss of control over our personal data online, network-quitters may have found a solution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com\/attachments\/files\/010\/034\/825\/original\/Delete-Forever_Felix-Cote_01.jpg?1763728339\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com\/attachments\/files\/010\/034\/827\/original\/Delete-Forever_Felix-Cote_02.jpg?1763728341\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com\/press_kits\/headshots\/003\/710\/119\/original\/dbc23d256b-headshot.jpg?1763728095\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:200px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">N\u00e9 en 1993 en France, <strong>F\u00e9lix C\u00f4te<\/strong> explore dans son travail les mani\u00e8res de s&rsquo;approprier les technologies num\u00e9riques et \u00e9mergentes pour en produire des usages critiques. Issu d&rsquo;une formation hybride, avec des dipl\u00f4mes en ing\u00e9nierie multim\u00e9dia et en art, il cr\u00e9e des \u0153uvres qui confrontent le public \u00e0 ses propres pratiques num\u00e9riques et internet. Il s&rsquo;int\u00e9resse aux espaces num\u00e9riques d\u00e9laiss\u00e9s et m\u00e9connus pour r\u00e9v\u00e9ler ce que les machines font peu, mal ou ne peuvent pas faire. En 2024, il r\u00e9alise \u00ab Delete Forever \u00bb, son premier court-m\u00e9trage, compos\u00e9 de vid\u00e9os amateurs supprim\u00e9es de YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Born in 1993 in France, <strong>F\u00e9lix C\u00f4te<\/strong>\u2019s work offers ways to appropriate digital and new technologies in order to produce critical uses. Coming from a hybrid background, with degrees in both multimedia engineering and art, he creates pieces that confront the public with their own digital and Internet practices. He is in search of abandoned and less known digital areas to find what machines do little, do poorly or cannot do. In 2024, he made Delete Forever, his first short film made up of amateur videos deleted from YouTube.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/felixcote.fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/flx.ct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16642,"menu_order":3,"template":"","portfolio-category":[590],"portfolio-tag":[],"class_list":["post-16601","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio-category-friche-22-oct-2026-21h00"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/16601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-category?post=16601"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-tag?post=16601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}