Treichville is a poor suburb of Abidjah, the capital of Ivory Coast and the destination of the two protagonists in this docudrama by Jean Rouch. The two men in question are originally from Nigeria, and they call themselves Eddie Constantine and Edward G. Robinson, clear indications of who their heroes are. The perpetual conflict between traditional ways of life and new Western imports comes up several times as the two men continue on their daily rounds and reveal a little about their hopes for the future.

To find, 20 years later, the boy with whom he was kissed for the first time, the author, now unrecognizable for him, manages to put him in front of a camera with a "professional" pretext ...

Cassius Clay is the world champion. 1967. The Vietnam war. Ali refuses to enlist.

Traditionally considered a postmodern city, Dubai is actually a confrontation between two ways of life. The most densely populated part of the city lives in what could be considered a “modern” architecture and society. The other and more widely known part is based along the lines of the postmodern philosophy that Jeremy Rifkin has described so well.

The night crossing of a Mediterranean city by car. Its passenger stay there almost invisible, absorbed by the urban view. A voice confirms a lonely night wandering in a city by the sea, an urban journey made to let the time pass away. Who crosses this city isn't only passing through it. He's a local, for a night, before an exile without return.

“This world is unfair. Its organization is inhuman. We know it. It shows. All the time. I don't want to denounce it. I'm seeking something else”. Through meetings in Limoges and in La Rochelle, images and sounds gleaned here or there, a search for what squatting is and what it can be, the alternatives, and through it all, utopia.

Hiroshima 1914-2006

A prison on the island of Nisida, in Naples, is home to 40 adolescents aged between 14 and 21. The kids design masks to hide their identities during the shooting of the film. It is this very facet which contributes to establishing an increasingly intimate rapport with three of the inmates – Enzo, Rosario and Samir, confronted by prison life, invite us to share their daily routine of school and work, boredom and captivity. They also recount their stories and share their moments of hope and disappointment. If the objective of their punishment is, as stated in the Constitution, re-education, the film questions the compatibility between learning and imprisonment.

Videogram of a troller in the delta of the river Po. "Here is my heart: I´ve nothing else to give, for my eyes are turquoises, like that sailor who took Marx for an apostle". 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show

October 17th, 1961. The war in Algeria is in progress. In Paris, Algerians took to the streets to protest the curfew. The demonstrators are persecuted and a peaceful demonstration ends in a bloodbath. When he went to the film in Cannes, the room was evacuated by police at the last minute and kidnapped copies. Half a century later, in October 2011, project for the first time in Paris.