Just like a note book full of words and pictures covering the years from 2000 to 2006, this film bears witness to groups of asylum seekers drifting through Strasbourg.
Both an administrative endurance road and a protest march, it's a sad escapade of isolated persons and families seeking shelter and recognition. Whenthefamiliar placesof thecitybecomethe sceneofsocial distress,hauntedbytired bodies and lost looks.
The work of Emile Gallé (1846-1904) is one of the essential references in Art Nouveau. The master of the "Ecole de Nancy" was a glassmaker, a furniture designer, a ceramist, but also a committed humanist and a well-known botanist who has left an important scientific work.
Recognizedtodayas well asotherdances,belly dancinghasspreadbeyondthe Eastand reached Europe. But what does that dance mean when danced by European women?
August 1999,mypartner, a photographer,notices a maninahospital.The dayof theeclipse,sherecognizesthe manin thecrowd andtakes photos of him, withhispermission...
