Walls and People | movie | 2013 | Official Clip
Each night, the voice of Casablanca takes us to the door of one of her inhabitants, revealing what binds her to that cha | dG1fb1VpRnRVU2dpX0E
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00:00 What is the role of the trade union?
00:04 We are in a time, at the end of something,
00:08 where we need to find a way to live together,
00:11 where there is no longer a separation between the countries of the South and the countries of the North.
00:19 We allow the free movement of goods, but not that of human beings.
00:26 And that no longer works.
00:28 And we can see that now we have to find a way to live together
00:34 and that building electronic walls to prevent people from coming,
00:40 it does not work.
00:42 My film is about that. Fundamentally, I would say.
00:46 Then there is the form.
00:48 And the form is the story of a neighborhood,
00:51 the neighborhood of my childhood, the neighborhood where I am from,
00:55 where there is so much frustration,
01:01 a frustration by this model of life that it cannot reach
01:06 and that is sent to it through all these parables.
01:09 When you go up on the terraces of the old Medina of Casablanca,
01:13 it is a forest of parables that brings a way of living
01:17 and a model of how to be happy today.
01:21 And so it's a whole frustration that it brings for people.
01:26 I said to myself, how can I talk about what is happening in Medina
01:30 without talking about my relationship to this place?
01:33 And I chose to give a place, the place of a full-fledged character to Medina.
01:42 And for me, Medina is a character, the streets are his body.
01:48 And I made him say what I always said to myself.
01:52 In fact, for a long time I said to myself,
01:54 but what would she have to say to people if she had a voice?
01:58 And often human beings talk about the place where they live,
02:02 but it is never the opposite.
02:04 And I think that sometimes it's a little enriching,
02:07 it pushes a little reflection when you imagine what the place that shelters us on ourselves would say.
02:13 The first big difficulty was myself, already.
02:18 Because it is a responsibility to bear the testimony of people,
02:22 I was wondering if I would be up to it.
02:25 Then there was the difficulty of being accepted.
02:29 And not just that, it's not just being accepted.
02:32 I asked for more than that.
02:34 I was waiting for people and the characters I filmed
02:40 to come to me themselves.
02:43 Because in general, in my work,
02:46 I can't stand the idea of standing in front of people with my camera
02:50 and telling them, "I am the director, you are the characters, give me."
02:54 No. For me, a film is the result of a sharing.
02:58 And that's very personal to myself, to the way I work,
03:02 to my relationship and to my ethics, actually.
03:07 It's also about that.
03:10 So I went into the alleys at night,
03:14 and there were characters I didn't expect at all,
03:17 who came out of the walls.
03:19 But when I say "came out of the walls", it's really that.
03:22 Because I was filming something and they came,
03:25 they said, "No, we have something to say."
03:28 And that's what drives me, actually.
03:32 I really need that idea of sharing something with people
03:38 and not just asking for it.
03:43 [silence]
03:46 [BLANK_AUDIO]