Ils me laissent l’exil

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Note of intent

This work about borders conducted since 2001 was first photographical. Quickly, the borders brought me to perceive the limits of the static image and to explore other mediums. In this new project, I want to raise the awareness of the singular experience of those men and women who crossed those physical and imaginary lines, the borders, and the way this journey has been passed to their descendants. From this way through the borders, what remains for the next generations?

Synopsis

This film is built on the travel of exiled Spanish republicans between south of France and Chile on three generations. Those stories will form the frame of the film: the journeys of Spanish exiled who were the first to know the Retirada in 1939 ; who run away from the dictatorship of Franco, who knew the internment camps in France and then the dictatorship of Pinochet in Chile before they went back to Europe. The entire project explore different layers of the transmission of the migratory patterns. Which tales of exile are built in duration, in the private and public spheres ? What can be passed (or not) overtime? Taking as the first point private objects like noise, speeches, heroes. But also silence, denial and oversight.

Visual concept

I will work from the idea of the fragment, from objects and pictures kept within families. Those elements will be articulated around witnesses’ speeches and the importance of silence. It helps to hear an « empty » speech, beyond the social etiquette. The camera will be mostly put as a static shot. The interviews will be filmed in the privacy of the houses and the framings will overdo on the faces. Some incursions of pictures will deal with the places of the erasure of the unwanted.