When I Will Be Dictator

The girls in orange are neighbors and spend time in the backyards. They lead a quiet, joyful and casual life. Until the day when one of them accidentally hangs a young man's sweater with his basket... A poetic, funny and astonishing film, close to the worlds of Jacques Tati and Jacques Demy. "Girls in Orange" is an educational film, which contains: a method for whitening goldfish, a classification of sexes according to color, a formula for making soap bubbles, a way to rewind threads that unwind, a observation from the top of roofs, a theory of up and down, angling maxims, a five-step dance manual, a method of communicating in the palms of the hands, a way of singing out of tune, and, finally , a method for filming clumsily but surely.

Like a puzzle, this film works on different elements: a guided tour in the waste lands of three cities (Brussels, Hamburg, Roma), a documentary about stray cats and the people who food it, some choreography of daily gesture, a question about cartography (and the common using of space), like a "wink" about the human Order and Chaos and a statement on the present difficulties of the Inutility.

The man carrying his body, his reels of film, his bag and his old Nikon, is Boris Lehman, he's also Sisyphus, Jesus Christ, and Ixion as told by Alfred Jarry in La Chandelle Verte. An essay on heaviness and lightness. The carrying man would like to fly, vanish into thin air, into light. When he meets another machine-man, who carries electronic pictures, his dream will come true.

Through many photographs, he tells the story and allows his story to be told by those photographed. This is where the brilliant documentary reversal takes place.