Where Is This Bizarro Business Park(?) Residential Area(?) Film Set(?)

In this video, the performer is traversing through … well, I don’t know what. It looks like it would be a business park or perhaps residential development in any American city, except that the streets are too narrow for vehicle traffic. It’s also devoid of people, as well as litter, greenery, graffiti. Is it a film set or something?

When the camera glimpses the outside of the development, it looks like a European or possibly American city with greenery and hills. I also thought I caught the faintest glimpse of the American flag, but then again, I’m American and I freedom so hard that I may have just wanted to see one.

It could be entirely CGI.

Ninja’d by less than 10 seconds. I was going to say CGI.

There are one or two people you can see on the sides if you watch it slow enough. Based on the architecture, I would guess that it’s the center strip of a senior living community. I thought it was CGI at first but watching it at 25% speed changed my mind.

It has a sort of hotel/apartment look but the wide throughfare and wide steps makes me think senior living. Also he keeps going up and down the same strip aside from spinning circles in the gazebo looking structure.

I doubt it’s CGI- it is a GoPro promotional film after all.

I have a feeling it’s somewhere in Europe; the longboarder (Lofti Lamaali) and drone pilot (Finkcy) live in Paris.

Here’s a longer version of the video.

Looks like it was filmed in Les Arcades du Lac in France.

There’s something very de Chirico about it.

What the heck kind of drone is the camera supposed to be attached to? Those sudden changes in direction barely seem possible.

Probably something like this.

The thing is, they’ve got ultrawide lenses. So if you take a superwide video, you can crop it down to one part and then pan across real fast. It will look like it’s moving faster than it actually is.

That makes a lot of sense.

I take it you’ve never been to Europe?

Looks like a college campus to me.

In fact I have, but this location seemed too new to be plagued by impossibly-narrow streets.

The streets aren’t intended as vehicle thoroughfares; note the ornamental fencing in the middle of the junction that he passes through. They are for pedestrian circulation and (possibly) necessary access for service vehicles. The complex is served by an underground carpark to which all the apartments have access via interior stairwells.

Hmmm, not far from Versailles.

There appear to also be some of these “streets” in the buildings to the west of the lake building that look more like the area being video’ed.

There’s a 360° view on Google Maps from the central intersection that’s shown towards the end of the video.

There is a similar housing development on the other side of Paris near Disneyland:

Noisy. Love it. Not a great way to advertise a housing development (in English-speaking places, that is).