The 2008 Village, 2011
short movie (20’) and video installation on four screens Actors : Gaëtan Vourc’h, Dorothée Saysombat, Bass Dhem, Éilien Tessier, Khadija El Mahdi, Joe Sheridan, René Palacios, Alice Cheng, Dario Riccardo Costa, Partha Pratim Majumder, Nadia Karim, Alexandre Sophea._

Video-on-demand avalaible on Arte website

The 2008 Village features archetypal figures of globalization – a Western consumer, an Amazonian land clearer, a Chinese worker, and others – conversing with one another, accusing each other of being responsible for their difficulties and excusing themselves for the harm they’re causing. The globalization of exchanges and hardships is crystallized in this burlesque fable with a pedagogical thrust. The 2008 Village is at once a short film and a video installation with four screens surrounding viewers, as if they were at the center of the world and its folly.

Exhibition view Solipsismes, galerie Jousse entreprise, 2011