My job my passion, Michel, agricultural representative – Humorous tribute to farmers and the trade he just left. A nod to my cinema peddling, a certainly less essential than the peasantry branch !
(R)evolutions – Messages, are found everywhere on people's doors, in neighborhoods, in buildings, the gardens… On the walls too,, but it is more rare… Everyone has his own revolution to fulfill and an horizon to open. That is encouraging. Sufficient ? Wish to compare this to Tibetan prayer flags (in a next film)…
light and shade in Isérables – Some mountain villages seem like a dream when a light beam affects them and attracts my attention from the surveyed in hawking cosy gardens and neighborhoods.. In Isérables... yes, I forgot that a movie theatre had existed once upon a time.…
Memories of communism (and… nothing is ever due) – When I drive that day..., it is actually towards other horizons : Poland of Alina childhood in which she connects the duration of our meeting. Communism was difficult, terrible, it is known , but a certain nostalgia for that time shows us : When resources are inside, the fervor and solidarity are there too, compensate the hardness, and are difficult to replace by our external capitalist resources…
Be entertained… or when a moment will never be again – Live and build our moments, rather than watching the world go by. Everything shows us that we were in phase in this moment of captation, until the final incident…
Our past is not a ruin – The villagers also may be interested in another cinema, poetic, sensory, the one shown in small urban cinemas, research theaters. But in the villages, I always crosses so few people too… It was then that Hervé gives me part of his science… It is true that our ancestors lived in color-not black-white as we imagine, while even the Middle Ages still resonates color ! It's true ancient village life was extremely lively , the cinema they lived it and didn’t need it, it's true that their lives and their photos were spontaneous and not only picture or postcard.
They were also peddlers – Alpine peddling, as mentioned by Hervé, has had its credentials. Itinerant trade has permeated some Alpine passes, some valleys and villages, it was colorful. In perspective with my peddling, to take the film to the people, seemingly trivial act.
A Home and the World – In the gardens, on the threshold of the house, whenever we seek solutions to the world, I think back to Voltaire (Cultivate our garden) and Camus (Help others to cultivate). And here again… As come the hints of a new night in the end of the day, we recall once again opportunities for action in the face of the world.
We were happy – There is what they say, but above all how they say it, how they adapt to the first experience of being filmed, by an almost unknown that comes through the door. Daniel is one of those that offer me a nice range of expressions, and it is this that remains for me, In the evening darkness, as I keep knocking on doors in the neighborhood.
Her husband will not come back – A lady, confided in me this week: her husband will die in hospital, of course she has no head to watch movies. From this moment, I just see the visited places by door-to-door quite differently … Walking through solitary places and objects.
Hitchhiking and hawking – He's young, he still has his childhood, he likes the idea of door-to-door, it's natural for him. He also wants the cinema make him pass the time. Among the apricot blossoms.
Society of the spectacle – I had not read Guy Debord yet.
– untitled – Peddling and feeling of powerlessness in front of the current events, regain the spirit of the spontaneous party, to find our faculties to make and to change…
