In contrast to Vanishing Point, which established a tension through repetition and its fixed, unwavering horizon, À qui appartiennent les pigeons ? shifts to a dense, close-range field of vision where the frame tightens.
Two alternating portraits of a single subject are filmed in their respective contexts: a man asleep, and a story-teller. The story-teller offers us his understanding of the world in the form of a series of poems, numbered 1 A to 101 A. He is filmed at dusk and by night. The poems, in unison with encoded drawings and blue-prints compiled in school notebooks, reveal the workings of our world, a simple sketch able to defuse aspects of our chaotic existence: everyday events, journeys, the construction of a building and so on. The man asleep is encapsulated within a nest of found objects and papers - the walls of his domain are stuffed plastic bags, compiled and augmented daily on rummages throughout the town. We are filming the twitches and shudders of sleep, and moments awaking from it.
This project is supported by the F.N.A.G.P. (France), the C.N.A.P. (France), by the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region, the French Institute in P.A.C.A. and represented in P.A.C.A. by HÖFN, a non-profit association. Corporate sponsorship PCD sa, Belgium.
Producer and director Frédérique Lagny - Assistant Boureima Traoré
