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ROYAUME-UNIBELGIQUE2003/<strong>2007</strong>Noir et blanc20’/52’OTOLITH I - OTOLITH IIréalisé par / directeb by OTOLITH GROUPFILMER, DIT-ELLEOtolith I t<strong>en</strong>te <strong>de</strong> questionner notre ori<strong>en</strong>tation, <strong>de</strong> réori<strong>en</strong>ter notreperception <strong>du</strong> mon<strong>de</strong> <strong>en</strong> <strong>en</strong>trelaçant histoires privées et publiques dans uneméditation sur d’irré<strong>du</strong>ctibles projets utopiques. “Earth is out of bounds forus now; it remains a planet accessible only through media”, voilà ce que lespectateur <strong>en</strong>t<strong>en</strong>d au début <strong>du</strong> film ; une proposition d’un av<strong>en</strong>ir postnucléairedans lequel l’humanité est condamnée à l’espace. Les nombreuxvoyages spatiaux ayant fait perdre aux hommes la fonction <strong>de</strong> leurs “otolithes”l’Homo Sapi<strong>en</strong>s ne peut plus se déplacer sur la terre. En lieu et place,les nouveaux mutants examin<strong>en</strong>t <strong>de</strong>s images ; film-essai sur ce <strong>de</strong>v<strong>en</strong>ir.Otolith II consigne certains mom<strong>en</strong>ts <strong>de</strong> la vie dans les bidonvilles, cesquartiers dont on peut augurer la ville <strong>du</strong> futur. Ces mom<strong>en</strong>ts form<strong>en</strong>tl’inv<strong>en</strong>taire <strong>de</strong>s épiso<strong>de</strong>s <strong>de</strong> ce que Mike Davis appelle The Planet of theSlums, un inv<strong>en</strong>taire qui se fon<strong>de</strong> sur une esthétique absur<strong>de</strong>, propre auxhabitations informelles <strong>de</strong> ces quartiers miséreux. Le film montre donc lesconditions réelles <strong>de</strong> l’économie globale <strong>en</strong> se focalisant sur les détails <strong>de</strong>sactivités et <strong>de</strong>s loisirs, <strong>de</strong> l’autonomie et <strong>de</strong> la pauvreté <strong>de</strong>s femmes qui yviv<strong>en</strong>t.Sci<strong>en</strong>ce-fiction où un narrateur <strong>du</strong> XXII e siècle retrace la croissance <strong>de</strong>spériphéries urbaines au cours <strong>de</strong>s <strong>de</strong>rniers siècles. Les bidonvilles, terrains<strong>de</strong> l’implosion <strong>de</strong> la pauvreté, y sont prés<strong>en</strong>tés comme les modèles <strong>de</strong>l’urbanisation future.The Otolith Group a été fondé <strong>en</strong> 2002 par Anjalika Sagar et Eshun Kodwo.Otolith I tries to question our ori<strong>en</strong>tation, to re-ori<strong>en</strong>tate our perception ofthe world by interweaving private and public histories in a meditation onirre<strong>du</strong>cible utopian projects. “Earth is out of bounds for us now ; remains aplanet accessible only through media”, this is what the viewer hears at thebeginning of the film; a proposition of a post-nuclear future in which humanityis con<strong>de</strong>mned to outer space. The numerous and a space voyages havetak<strong>en</strong> their toll and humans can no longer move around on earth. Instead,the new mutants study images; a film-essay about this <strong>de</strong>velopm<strong>en</strong>t.Otolith II consigns certain mom<strong>en</strong>ts of life to shanty-towns, those neighbourhoodthat give an image of the city of the future. These mom<strong>en</strong>ts formthe inv<strong>en</strong>tory of episo<strong>de</strong>s of what Mike Davis calls The Planet of the Slums,an inv<strong>en</strong>tory based on an absurd aesthetic them, appropriate to the informaldwellings of those miserable districts. Thus the film shows the real conditionsof the global economy by focusing on <strong>de</strong>tails of activities and leisure, theeconomy and poverty of wom<strong>en</strong> who live in it.Sci<strong>en</strong>ce fiction in which a 22nd c<strong>en</strong>tury narrator traces the growth of urbanperipheries in the previous two c<strong>en</strong>turies. The shantytowns, territoriescollapsing un<strong>de</strong>r poverty, are pres<strong>en</strong>ted as mo<strong>de</strong>ls of future urbanisation.The Otolith Group was foun<strong>de</strong>d in 2002 by Anjalika Sagar and Eshun Kodwo.EP185

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