I circled the earth in 2018. And wherever I have looked, it got lost in the dark. A river, dead, over a distance of 650 kilometers, deformed fish, radioactive forests, children born with no eyes, the mafia dealing in toxic waste, plastic adrift in the ocean forming particles that are now part of a grotesque food chain. How have we let this happen?
A fim by Samuel Bollendorff Image : Samuel Bollendorff Son : Martin Gracineau Montage : Mélanie Braux Produit par Eugénie Michel-Villette et Emmanuelle Jacq Toni, Nebojsa, George and Andrea come from Croatia, Serbia or Romania. Posted workers in the Saint Nazaire shipyards, they often live there as invisible. If they are detached by their status, [...]
A documentary tale by Mehdi Ahoudig et Samuel Bollendorff Image : Samuel Bollendorff Son : Mehdi Ahoudig Musique originale : Thierry Deleruyelle This is the story of Cloclo, the majorette, Little Blue, the fighting cock, Big Blue, the carrier pigeon, and Jonathan, a.k.a. Vectraman. They’re all getting ready for The parade. Projections and [...]
A look against the current on the roads of exile. A return to places sometimes forgotten after being overexposed. This work derogates from the representations identified. It provokes and renews the look. The bias is assumed: images that do not show the refugees but exposes the places they have crossed. Images embodied in their dialogue with the testimonies.
They choose self-immolation to be heard
An interactive documentary by Samuel Bollendorff and Olivia Colo.
Online on France Télévision Nouvelles Ecritures and Le Monde.fr
Nowhere safe street show in Paris along the Canal St martin until 10th of april.
To be published March 14, 2012 editions Textuel.
3.6 million people live in France in a situation of acute poor housing. 10 million can switch at any time. This book of Samuel and Mehdi Bollendorff Ahoudig embodies the violence of statistics. 1 euro donated to the Foundation Abbé Pierre, another reason to take action on housing.
The book’s release will be accompanied by a giant poster along the Canal St Martin.
À l’abri de rien / Nowhere safe wins the Prix Europa Award 2011 in Berlin.
The two documentaries Rapporteur de crise and A l’abri de rien have been selected for the EUROPA price 2011
A L’ABRI DE RIEN will be showv at Visa pour l’Image, friday the 2nd of september at 3 pm, at the Palais des Congrès.
July, 12th 2011 :
Opening night of the exhibition THE FORCED MARCH the forgotten of the growth
at the church “Notre Dame de Valfrancesque”
March 11th, 2011 : Online release of À L’ABRI DE RIEN www.a-l-abri-de-rien.com
This web documentary is an insight into the European parliament, behind closed doors. From Brussels to Strasbourg, from informal meetings to plenary sessions, we follow MEP Pervenche Berès rapporteur of the special committee on the financial, economic and social crisis.
April 4th, 2011 Guest on the La Grande Table radio broadcast on France Culture http://www.franceculture.com/emission-la-grande-table-photo-reportage-2011-04-04.html
January 15th, 2011: Closing of the exhibition TOKYO At Le Petit Endroit
January 11th, 2011 Opening night of the exhibition A MARCHE FORCÉE, Santa’s workers at the Espace Confluences gallery
January 3th, 2011 : TOKYO on the “Voulez-vous sortir avec moi” radio broadcast – France Inter
December 20th, 2010 : TOKYO broadcast on FRANCE 24 – Culture : Inside the Eastern Metropolis
Opening night of the exhibition TOKYO at Le Petit Endroit December 2th, 2010:
November 12th, 2010 Launch of Foto8 magazine in London : Portfolio on Angola
October 28th, 2010 : Live from Italy : the printing of Tokyo. Release on December 2th, 2010 to mark the opening of the exhibition Tokyo at Le Petit Endroit – Paris
