ITALY • 26′ a movie by JEAN LOïC PORTRON A fortified village, perched high on a hill. The land is apparently fertile: the fields display diversity, as do the crops they bear, with trees playing an essential part. This harmony is the result of tireless struggle. If man allows his attention to wander or fails to[…]
FRANCE • 25′ a movie by JEAN LOïC PORTRON Three centuries of war have profoundly marked this borderline landscape. Most obviously stand out the fortifications facing Germany. Military constraints have modeled the landscape, smothering any attempt at economic development. Nowadays, however, the border is permeable. Bitche, built as a rampart against Germany, now only lives for[…]
FRANCE • 24′ a movie by JEAN LOïC PORTRON At Bierre, life revolved around the feudal castle, later replaced by the baronial hall, built by a powerful official of Louis XVI. As in villages, it’s elsewhere that the crops grown are determined and the landscape bears the traces of many switches from stock farming to ce[…]
FRANCE • 27′ a movie by PIERRE ZUCCA The Porte de Bagnolet is a frontier landscape, a space through which a clearly defined limit passes, separating the centre from the periphery. The limit was once marked by a city wall with fortifications, but this has now given way to the ring road which tightly hems in[…]
FRANCE • 27′ a movie by JEAN LOïC PORTRON Approaching Auxey-Duresses you cross an austere countryside, nothing in sight but grapevine. Not a tree or a hedge to break the monotonous lines. For a long time the vine belonged to the rich and powerful. With the arrival of the phylloxera crisis at the end of[…]
GERMANY • 28′ a movie by JEAN LOïC PORTRON Eisenhüttenstadt is located on the fringes of Brandeburg, 60 miles east of Berlin. The city awes its name to the EisenhüttenKombinat Öst, the largest metallurgical factory in East Germany. After the war there were hopes of building a model factory town where a new society, another future,[…]
MALAGASY REPUBLIC • 58′ a film by OLIVIER BALLANDE Antananarivo, capital city of Madagascar. At the rehabilitation Center of Antananarivo, Joseph, 15 years old, has been emprisoned for a year for stealing a watch. He has waited for an hypothetical judgement. For stealing a shawl, Victorien, 17 years old, has cleared a six month penalty at the[…]
SPAIN a movie by CAROLE FIERZ Inès is daughter, grand-daughter, great granddaughter of singers, an Andalousian gipsy dynasty. One night, after 38 years of silence, she broke out in a song which left all the family stupefied and moved. Her brother, a famous guitar player, magnetized by this strange sister, took her around the world, far[…]
SPAIN a movie by CAROLE FIERZ The Guadalquivir delta has been the scene of many musical cultures. Flamenco appeared 150 years ago as a particular syncretism of oriental and occidental elements. An art of song, guitar and dance, it is above all and quintessentially the work of a few gypsy families who long ago settled in[…]
USA • 52′ a film by ROBERT BOZZI I went to the West Coast of America to see what the war times looked like after 9-11. I took back my place between my wife Ebby and our dog Napoleon, in our house at the foot of the “French Man’s Mountain”. Living this life and spotting what had changed,[…]