Fascinated by travel, Rob Rombout shares with us his feelings as a stranger, a passer-by, who meets a region and its inhabitants and progressively shows his perception of the Alsatian identity, or identities rather, at a given moment.
He visits the region by train and questions “ordinary” people on issues that apparently have no link with the Alsatian regional identity or the clichés that generally caracterize the Alsatian.
In a train compartment, people don’t know each other. The only thing that they have in common is being in that train at the same moment. The peoples’ life stories unfolds all along the tour of the region. Those encounters are a very special moment, in which the act of listening is crucial, as at the psychoanalyst’s. At some point, we stop and listen. Their gaze also traces the image of that region through the window of the train and the world is seen through their eyes. As in a train, everyone is following their own route. It is the movement of life. Following those three lines, Rob Rombout goes beyond the capture of personal stories and weaves the threads of particular ones that tell us the collective story of life in a region, as in the snapshot of a moment shared
with others, with strangers randomly met on a train. He paints the landscape of life, in the movement of passing time.
CREDITS
With
Christine COLLIN, Henri DREYFUS,
Jean-Richard FREYMANN,
Aurore HUMBERT, Sylvie LEVY,
Ibtissam MELLOUKI, André OHREL
André OSTERTAG, Philippe POIRIER
Daniel ZIEGLER
> Photography Samuel DRAVET
> Operator Thierry SITTER
> Sound Grégoire DELANDES,
Suzanne ERKALP
> Editing Adriana MOREIRA
DE OLIVEIRA
> Sound editing
Omar PEREZ and Paul DELVOIE
(GSARA)
> Sound mixing Benoît BIRAL
> Sound effects
Philippe VAN LEER -
STUDIO DAME BLANCHE
> Music Philippe POIRIER
> Mixing music
David MIMJAUW – STUDIO DADA
> Musicians Pascal BENOIT,
Marco DE OLIVEIRA
