If light could speak, what would it tell us?

Since the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago, light has sculpted the cosmos. It traverses the void, plays with matter, and dances with shadows. It multiplies and proliferates, offering the world ever more complex and luminous structures: stars, galaxies, clusters, black holes…

Origins: A Tale of Light is the story of this luminous impulse: an eight-episode documentary series where light is simultaneously narrator, heroine, and memory of the cosmos. It retraces the major cosmological events that gave the universe the form we know today.

Co-written by Corentin Duval, Thomas Cadène, and astrophysicist David Elbaz, the series blends poetry, science, and philosophy, illustrated by the captivating images of Roman Hill. Through the lens of his camera, the director orchestrates liquids, pigments, chemical reactions, and plays of light to evoke the forms and movements of the most massive entities in our universe. With this unique visual approach, he composes veritable abstract tableaux that give form to this cosmic epic.

Origins is an immersive, contemplative, and mesmerizing series, accessible to all. It offers points of reference to situate us within the grand narrative of the Universe, allowing us to make it our own story: the story of our origins.