PHILOMÈNE

‘It is a film about instinct,
about moments of pure life,
about expelling dreamt images onto quickly shot images,
about trying to un puzzle an over-floating irruption of things to say, and things to ask.
It is a film about roots, about history, about understanding one’s identity.
It is a film that couldn't never be written in advance, it is a film that had to be lived, there, in the fields of Cameroon,
on the grave on a grandmother, through the telling of a sister, and through the eyes of young cousins.
It is a film that took months, years, to be even possibly done, but only moments to be captured.
It is a film that had to be as hectic as the woman that was trying to find herself, and as unthought as the friend that came along to see.
It is a film that will carry the memory of the dead, the laugh of the new-born,
and the still unresolved questions of a mixed-raced artist who is begging for a revealed story.
It is a film about emotions, about discoveries, about time, and specially, about the things that never could be said’
(Written by Pauline Raybaud & Philomène)
Digging Roots,2020
Documentary, performance film (40min)
By Philomène & with P.Raybaud
Short extracted video, from original film