BUILDING STORIES #001 (THAT DISTANT PIECE OF MINE)

Building Stories # 001 [That Distant Piece Of Mine] is a 16mm film recorded in Senegal; reportedly the most accessible West African country, a tourist destination with a renowned hospitality. Far from the "clichés" shows this film a poetic stroll through a topical Senegal. From the amazement about the grace with which the population strides over the ground, the absurdity of architecture that often is plumped down as a UFO in the landscape or orphaned infrastructure that plays a role in the whole of the scene, you find yourself in a unique African world. The tension of the film is in the interaction between what is familiar and strange, between what is constructed or in continuous deconstruction, between the stories you invent as a viewer and the stories that these scenes tell you, between what moves and what is still. Building Stories # 001 [That Distant Piece Of Mine] is an infinite portrait radiating a lonely quietness in an African frenetic world.