The four stories in this film take us from Belgium to the banks of the Senegal River, from the French Ardennes to the mountains of the Western Sahara. What they have in common is that they lead us to meet the sleepers. Men and women moving between two worlds, that of the absent and that of the living, between two states, that of waking and that of sleep. In each of these stories lies a mystery free from all belief, all philosophy, all attempts at explanation. A mystery capable of reenchanting reality.  

From one place to the other, people of Brussels are cutting off their children's hair. Somewhere between the parents who must succesfully achieve this task and the self-surrender or the opposition of the child forced to immobility, a strange relation occurs: the unsaid awareness of a separation between itself and its image.

Nisrine is 12, she lives and grew up in hotsting institution. Since five years, she spends one weekend every three weeks in a hosting family. Trought out my questions and the rythm of her visits, Nisrine tells herself and look at her situation.

“Le cercle des noyés” (The circle of the drowned men) is the name given to a group of black political prisoners in Mauritania who were arrested in 1986 and incarcerated in the city of Oulata's former Colonial Fort. The documentary follows the subtle mental process of one of the ex-prisoners as he remembers his own story and that of his fellow prisoners. Like an echo, we see a series of images of the sites of their confinement – bare, stripped of all traces of this past.

July in Mittimatalik, a small and remote Inuit community on Baffin Island, north of the Arctic Circle. The sun doesn't set for almost three months. The glaciers run into the sea, the ice fields crack and float off, pushed by the wind. This is the blank page on which the stories of the dreams we collected are written – dreams of life, death, motherhood, anxiety and isolation. They are raw stories. There is no deciphering. Ties are unnoticeably woven between the dreamers and their world. A fragile balance is struck and the dialogue continues.

Intimate / World is a multidisciplinary project of video creation, associating image, research, sound creation, and the intervention of a performer. Sound creation is at the centre of the project and questions the notion of place, environment, proximity or distance. Intimate / World is a photography in movement in a monumental architecture, the city of Hong Kong , overwhelming, crossed by the performer.