La tour du monde and RER B and Clichy pour l'exemple
Mon 28.11.
20:00
Cinema
Arsenal 1
Director
Alice Diop
France / 2005
50 min.
/ Digital file
/ Original version with English subtitles
"La rose des vents" is a district in Aulnay-sous-Bois, in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, that comprises high-rises built for social housing in 1973. It is where Alice Diop grew up and where she returned for her first TV film, which, as she makes clear in her voice-over, aims to take a tender look at the diverse and lively neighborhood – as opposed to media coverage that describes the banlieue as a dangerous and bleak place. Focusing on the stairwell of one building, she stops at different floors, stopping in on immigrant families trying to preserve their cultural traditions, and thus passing through Turkey, Mali, Sri Lanka, Congo, or Vietnam. Aside from acts of solidarity, the pain of exile is also exposed.
Director
Alice Diop
France / 2017
2 min.
/ DCP
/ Without dialogue
From a bridge in the Drancy marshaling yard, French artist Benoît Peyrucq uses watercolors to paint the tracks in the evening light, while the RER B, a suburban express train that crosses Paris from northeast to the southwest and plays an important role in Diop's films, passes.
Director
Alice Diop
France / 2006
50 min.
/ Digital file
/ Original version with English subtitles
In the fall of 2005, the deaths of two youths pursued by police in Clichy-sous-Bois triggered revolts across France. While the media attention died down and the cameras left, Alice Diop spent a year on the ground exploring the reasons for the anger in France’s suburbs for her second TV film. She met young people, the local mayor and teachers, and found huge deficiencies everywhere: Run-down and damp apartments, unemployment, discrimination on the employment market, poor public transport links. Social injustice poisons life in the suburbs - and despite many promises, hardly anything had changed a year after the riots.
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