Ce qui nous pousse

The works offer portraits of men, women and children whose daily existence is caught up in an eminently political situation. They present the reasons for leaving, the tribulations of the journey or the difficulties of adapting to a new identity. Troubled by their forced uprooting or haunted by that of their parents or grandparents, the artists revoke political assignments and give bodily representation to an experience whose over-mediatization has transformed it into a cliché far removed from the reality. 

Some situate their subjects in a geographic and temporal context, leaving the succession of sequence shots to reveal lives in waiting. Others upset cinematic grammar to better convey the constraints weighing upon these buffeted existences and the inner strength needed to break free. They plunge their characters into the instability of fragmentary framing and sensitive editing, with neither start nor finish, reflecting violence, broken dreams and daily difficulties. The camera is their greatest ally, like an alter ego. Placed at a good distance, horizontal and tender, it records voices and gestures with naturalness, understanding and, sometimes, humour.