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This web documentary addresses the theme of poor housing in France. A plague that affects 3.6 million people in France.
Yesterday morning we attended to the press view of the web documentary of the Abbé Pierre Foundation, directed by photographer Samuel Bollendorff already involved in the web documentary world and the radio journalist Mehdi Ahoudig, produced by Textuel La Mine.
This web documentary addresses the theme of poor housing in France. A plague that affects 3.6 million people in France. So how to alert people when governments are only very slightly active on this issue? This is the problem that tackle the two authors of this webdoc.
To answer this dramatic issue, they chose to enter directly into the flimsy houses so the spectators can practically experience at first hand the situation. The testimony offered, concrete and real stories that take place in France so it spurs the consciousness of the rest of the population.
With an intense immersion and a medium made for the movement, the rapid sharing and dissemination of information, webdoc is striking. It created an intimacy with people far from thence the only statistical data on poor housing! This is indeed, the purpose of such webdocumentaries, to offer greater involvement and awareness of this social plague.
The Bollendorff’s Style is easily recognizable. Thanks to the still images and the “Ken Burns”, perfectly put in the work. It helps to approach differently each individual experience. Sound, beautifully managed by Mehdi Ahoudig (arteradio.com, France Culture) sublimates poignant photographs by recreating authentic atmospheres.
The work is available online today.
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The expression “mal logement” can be translated by poor housing but a more appropriate translation, according us, should be “junk housing” as we are currently use in French the expression “malbouffe” (junk food).