Marie Bouts, Till Roeskens

Un archipel

There is a continent where maps are not drawn, but sung. Each person is the singer of a path, the guardian of a possible trajectory. Lost between the highways, the malls, the construction sites, the buildings and the no-man’s lands of the northeastern suburbs of Paris, we asked the people we met here and there to invent this continent with us. We followed them on their paths through cities that seemed endless to us. We listened to their words. Formerly the territory of the working classes the northeastern suburb of Paris inexorably changes. The capital extends itself in an immense construction site under the open sky and so writes a new chapter in the history of this parcel of working class land. An archipelago is the song of a word that is disappearing, an ode to these resistant voices, a walk through the city, its landscapes, its last secret passages.

→ 37 min, Français / Roumain / Chinois / Arabe / Kabyle, 2012