Journey to a Land Otherwise Known Poster

Journey to a Land Otherwise Known

50.00% | March 5, 2011 |

In a film, meeting a strange tribe often starts with the plunging view from a building necessary to the journey. The architecture of Jean-Pierre Secq dubbed the noise of the waves washes over us in this way. However, to open it, the construction was massive and still, unfolding the three concrete wings of this equatorial greenhouse in Lille. This essay on the conquest of America assumes its own contradiction, underlined by a montage of texts by colonisers: Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Hans Staden, Jean de Léry, Charles de la Condamine and the use of costumes and masks inspired by Brazilian modernism. The discovery of a new world conducted in slow motion listening to the minutes of an unlikely trial of the invaders. The most restrained of movements, surplus, to make the most of rediscovering the New World. Gilles Grand, FID Marseille catalogue, 2012.

Featured Crew

Laura Huertas Millán
Director
Laura Huertas Millán
Writer
Laura Huertas Millán
Editor
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Cast

Dominique Thomas
Dominique Thomas
Narrator (voice)

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