28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
For Men Go By
director: Thibault Verneret, Assia Piqueras
original title: Car les hommes passent
country: France
year: 2019
running time: 15 min.
synopsis
Over the past fifty years, the Mange-Garri chemical plant has drained more than 30 million tons of toxic sludge into the Mediterranean Sea while producing aluminum oxide. The surrounding area has quickly become a major dump, now covered in dark red ooze. The film draws attention to the unstoppable process of human self-destruction through a series of carefully selected shots of the industrial environment and the eyewitness reports of local residents.
“Our project is different from an investigation or a documentary in the strict sense, staying both closer to and further away from its subject. Closer since it is based on the lived part of the story, which comes from the photos and accounts of the residents. Further away to the extent that the places marked by environmental aberrations are symptoms, pathological mirrors of our acts on a large scale.” A. Piqueras, T. Verneret
biography
Assia Piqueras (1991) studied visual arts at Le Fresnoy after a Master's degree in anthropological cinema at Paris-Nanterre University. She is a member of the GRAF research group and particularly focuses on documentary with writing as part of her hybrid work.
Thibault Verneret (1990) graduated from Lussas Documentary School and Paris-Nanterre University, where he studied anthropological cinema. As part of his cinematographic work, he focuses on somatic experiments and examines various forms of waste and their social properties.
more about film
| director: | Thibault Verneret, Assia Piqueras |
| producer: | Assia Piqueras, Thibault Verneret, Gabrielle Murgat |
| photography: | Assia Piqueras, Thibault Verneret |
| editing: | Assia Piqueras, Thibault Verneret |
| sound: | Thibault Verneret, Félix Blume |
| sound design: | Rémi Mencucci, Marina Stanimirovic |
