Pyramiden

In the mountains of Yakushima Island in Japan, do not do bad things, otherwise the gods will bewitch you. So we make sure we can live together. But when a typhoon approaches and the winds intensify, the men descend the deities on their backs to shelter them.

Louise doesn't want to go on vacations with her dad, because he stays out of the world. There is no dialogue between them anymore. Hating the countryside, Louise spend her life on her cell phone, as her father decides to photograph the Andromeda Galaxy. The fall of a meteorite will turn the world upside down.

By his own admission, Damien Faure possesses an impressive quantity of images and films, sometimes exploited in other ways, sometimes simply left unused, and forgotten on film that was gathering dust. These archives have patiently waited to be brought back to life in this documentary, in which this travel-loving director presents an anthology of sequences shot in the four corners of the planet, from Japan to the Arctic, via India. Through the discovery of these stories collected here and there and then meticulously assembled, he wishes to offer a different vision of the contemporary world.