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Makena Diop, Rasmane Ouedraogo, Souleymane Souré, Fatou Tall-Salgues, Joseph B. Tapsoba

Athénaïse
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Wide Management
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Synopsis

"Dreams of Dust is a stationary quest, the interior journey of a character who finds himself by going away to lose himself. It is the simple story about letting go of one's ego. The characters are castaways from the shipwreck of life. Marooned in a goldmine where everything seems possible but nothing is achieved. Happiness is too far away, out of reach. They are all carrying a burden: a heavy past, a child on their back or a sack of stones. In this way, they all echo the main character, Mocktar Dicko, who arrives carrying a suitcase but also the guilt he feels for the death of his little girl. Essakane is a makeshift goldmine located in the far north of Burkina Faso. It is the perimeter of the film. This space anchors the story line. It is the setting for a contradictory atmosphere, a mixture of hope and despair. 'Sahel' is a word of Arabic origin meaning 'shoreline'. On this shore, Essakane seems to be a kind of port, where people dream in vain of setting off for happiness. The characters contemplate the vast desert as others might look at the sea. They live according to their own rhythms, with a predilection for suspended moments, for all the floating seconds when it seems that everything can still change. In some ways, styles of cinematography can be defined as much by what they show as much as by what they refrain from showing. In Dreams of Dust I went for a very pared-down form, with no sophisticated framing or camera movements, by simplifying the actors' gestures, so as to distribute glances and telling pauses within the dialogues. The work on colour was very significant, but the film took on meaning by bleeding much of the colour out. The same applies to the soundtrack and music. We were facing the void to express the characters' inner worlds: closed in an endless space whose bars were wind and dust, they became prisoners of themselves. Only the faraway horizon lets a few mirages appear from time to time, a few impossible dreams." Laurent Salgues

Biography

Dreams of Dust (2006)

Filmography

Dreams of Dust (2006)

Dates

39	05.10.2007	17:00	Festsaal
84	08.10.2007	19:15	Filmhaus