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After the regular programmes, ZDF broadcasts ‘Strassenfeger’, a purely recorded and absolutely unedited video report of a car journey from one place to another. The camera located next to the driver stares unblinkingly through the windscreen. The viewer waits in ‘real time’ at a stop light until he can proceed further. The first addicts of this synthetic form of travel have already been identified. No risks whatsoever, never a crash - at least, not with your own car. You lie on the couch, basking in the illusion of a dynamic existence. Bourbon shows that, even in the last decades of the twentieth century when tour operators offer vacations pre-packed in cellophane wrappers, traveling can be something other than a stupefying method of transport. A woman’s flight from Canada to Paris is a hallucinating experience for which you don’t have enough senses. Her images - to find herself again - are built up in layers, which also offers room for close-ups of chance details of recordings of street scenes. She left a man behind. His lonely computer notes flash past with the speed of an illuminated news trailer. Their thoughts meet so that, in isolation, they can produce a joint travel report. This converts travel into a labyrinth of emotions.
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Erik Daams
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Camera Bernard Fougères, Edith Labbé, Luc Bourdon, Editing Michel Giroux, Laura Lefave, Marie-France Giraudon, Sound Serge Cardinal, Music Michel F. Côté, Serge Boisvert, Diane Labrosse, Alexandre St-Onge, Martin Tétreault, Thanks to Birgit-Alexandre
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