I had the immense joy of creating the visualizer and cover for Oran, a song by French musician Marie Montezan rooted in the tender, painful, and nostalgic heritage of her family. Born from the memories of her mother and grandmother who fled Algeria during the war, Oran carries the duality of an omnipresent family history that is yet too heavy to share - creating the longing for a place Marie has never been to but has always imagined.

Marie offered me a treasure chest of materials: family photos from the 50s and 60s, textile fragments, ID portraits of three generations of women, postcards, her notebook with the first handwritten lyrics. Pieces of a history partly lived, partly lost, and partly imagined.

The Spotify Visualizer for “Oran”

Art Direction & Design

From these archives and personal memories, I shaped an art direction blending scrapbook and family album - an intimate world built from collages, textures, and pieces of the Oran Marie inherited through her mother and grandmother's stories. Pastel childlike animated loops, layered and staggered textures for fuzzy memory flashes, old Algerian stamps - the ultimate symbol of destinations dreamed of but out of reach - and warmer tones for the imagined landscapes of Oran.

Archives & Materials

I dove into these traces to build a visual universe that could hold that mix of raw nostalgia, distance, and fantasy.

Merci Marie for trusting me with this piece of your family's history. 🍊

Song: Marie Montezan
Visualizer & Art Direction: Lili Boisrond
Graduation Project: Gobelins Paris
Composition: Marie Montezan
Lyrics: Damien Delisle
Piano & Arrangement: Abel Saint-Bris
Percussions: Kaja Włostowska
Double Bass: Milosz Madejski
Recording: Clément Bonj at CNSMDP