Xavier FaltotSenior Creative — Selected Recent Work
Portfolio — 1998 / 2026
Living culture. Making media.
Editorial Strategy / Media SystemsAI Workflows / Text / Audio / Photo / Video / Social
Almost three decades spent turning emerging signals into media, experiences and communities — across editorial, radio, the moving image, brands and, most recently, artificial intelligence. Based in Berlin.
Film — Moving Image01
Brand · Documentary
VEJA — A True Story About Amazonian Rubber
Amazonia
The true story of wild rubber, filmed in the Amazon for VEJA — culture meeting the supply chain at its source.
Brand · Film
VEJA — How to Spot Fake VEJA Websites
Anti-counterfeit campaign
A sharp, playful brand film teaching shoppers to tell the real VEJA website from the fakes.
Fashion · Runway
Balenciaga — Fall 24
Runway deep fake excerpt
An excerpt from the Balenciaga Fall 2024 collection show.
Video Art · Direction
Infinite — Théodore Fivel
Paris
A video-art piece created with Théodore Fivel in Paris — portraiture dissolving into endless motion.
A monthly radio experiment built as a "media-cament": cloned voices, AI-composed music, spoken word and live studio moments. Across the season The End of the Loop, it carries the listener from the rigid tempo of modern performance toward a more fluid way of living.
Music · AI Production
Zuper Wok — Music
The End of the Loop — album
Xavier is a post-human music producer shaping the transition from modern to fluid. Fusing AI, poetry and sound, he creates multilingual tracks between human and machine — glitchy, conscious, and alive. Xavier doesn't produce. He metabolises.
Software03
Rush Operator — “You are not a machine anymore”, 2026.The console, running locally on macOS.
AI Tool · Emerging Tools
Rush Operator
2026 — prototype
Rush Operator transcribes your video, audio and text rushes and turns them into a searchable map. At its core, a sound-clap instantly tags and files every take — then it surfaces the dominant themes, verbal tics and repetitions, builds edit-ready playlists, and lets you zoom from an aerial view of a whole project down to a single sentence. The AI handles transcription, indexing and sorting; you keep the part that matters — choosing, linking, telling. It runs entirely on your Mac, so your rushes never leave your machine. The motto says it all: “You are not a machine anymore.”
2026 — The end of the fixed face & the rise of algorithmic cinema
After the reign of spectacle comes personalized post-spectacle: a cinema that bends to the identity of the viewer rather than imposing one. With AI and deepfake, the actor's face becomes a mask placed over an invisible presence — fame, at last, without the servitude of the exposed face.
The Era of the Invisible Actor — Faltot on Substack, 2026.
Article · toutvabiensepasser.com
The End of Models?
2026 — or the rise of wearable identities
What if fashion sites stopped showing clothes on strangers and started showing them on the faces we choose? The models become interfaces, the shop a self-adapting mirror.
« La fin des mannequins ? » — toutvabiensepasser.com, 2026. Texte en français.
In progress — Writing05
Book · Work in progress
Maison Fluid
A treatise on fluid parenting
Alongside my professional work, I am currently writing Maison Fluid, a treatise on fluid parenting. In it I argue that our society has entered a new age — the fluid era — more complex and more interconnected than the one now dying before it: modernity. Children, I believe, are the finest guides for learning to navigate it. They are the masters of fluidity. I could not be more optimistic about the world to come.
Maison Fluid — work in progress, 2026.
About this portfolio→
I have never really needed a portfolio.
For most of my career, projects led to projects, encounters generated further encounters, and recommendations traveled faster than portfolios.
The document you are reading is therefore deliberately selective and far from exhaustive. I have chosen to show a selection of recent work, along with the projects that best reflect the way I think, work, and create today.
Much of the rest of my work remains visible on my personal website, linked at the end of this portfolio. That site feels more like a living archive than a carefully arranged showcase. Journalism, television, radio, photography, events, brand content, experiments, artificial intelligence, and cultural projects all coexist freely there. A certain disorder reigns, but that disorder also tells the story of a life devoted to curiosity.
I enjoy building my own tools as much as creating content. This portfolio page itself was designed with Claude, then crash-tested and corrected by ChatGPT and Gemini.
I arrived in Berlin after twenty-five years in Paris. In many ways, this portfolio marks the beginning of a new chapter rather than the summary of a completed journey.
