Inspired by Hollywood film noir, the artist creates spaces with a destabilizing poetry. Through these fictional territories, Mathieu Dufois's animations trace three stages of the temporality of an urban landscape: ruin, alteration, and prosperity. Each of the films is set in a familiar world while distinguishing itself through its visual universe and narrative structure. Addressing the theme of memory, the artist constructs his works from archival documents, personal memories, lived or imagined experiences, as well as locations or events. He unveils these elements through the urban motif and its archaeological perspective. The result is a certain melancholy belonging both to the collective unconscious and the artist's subjectivity.