0 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Downloaded From www.AllSubs.org 1 00:00:18,570 --> 00:00:20,730 THE GLEANERS AND I 2 00:00:23,340 --> 00:00:25,330 G as in gleaning - 3 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,610 To glean is to gather after the harvest. 4 00:00:29,050 --> 00:00:32,450 A gleaner is one who gleans. 5 00:00:33,590 --> 00:00:35,750 In times past only women gleaned. 6 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:39,380 Millet's Glaneuses were in all dictionaries. 7 00:00:41,890 --> 00:00:44,420 The original painting is at the Orsay. 8 00:01:02,650 --> 00:01:05,620 Gleaning, that's the old way. 9 00:01:05,950 --> 00:01:10,050 My mother'd say, '' Pick everything up so nothing gets wasted''. 10 00:01:12,590 --> 00:01:14,350 But sadly we no longer do 11 00:01:14,530 --> 00:01:17,430 because machines are so efficient nowadays. 12 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,570 But before, I used to glean 13 00:01:20,730 --> 00:01:22,720 together with my neighbors, 14 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:25,600 for wheat, and rice too. 15 00:01:26,770 --> 00:01:30,730 I would put my big apron on 16 00:01:32,410 --> 00:01:35,440 and we'd go gleaning ears of wheat, 17 00:01:35,610 --> 00:01:37,510 lovely ears we would find. 18 00:01:41,090 --> 00:01:45,050 A whole day in the sun, with gnats and mosquitoes biting, 19 00:01:45,390 --> 00:01:46,620 it wasn't too nice, 20 00:01:46,860 --> 00:01:48,380 but we liked it. 21 00:01:49,530 --> 00:01:53,860 Evenings, we were exhausted. Once home with our bags and our aprons 22 00:01:54,970 --> 00:01:59,730 we'd have a good time laughing and drinking coffee together. 23 00:02:00,340 --> 00:02:03,830 I was born in that farmhouse, and I'll die there too. 24 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,740 - But not quite yet! - OK, thank you very much. 25 00:02:06,910 --> 00:02:08,810 Thanks very much, all of you. 26 00:02:08,980 --> 00:02:11,920 I'm mixed up, you've confused me now. 27 00:02:13,650 --> 00:02:16,020 Yes, I've always gleaned. 28 00:02:16,460 --> 00:02:20,590 I remember, with my grandmother and my brothers and sisters. 29 00:02:21,030 --> 00:02:25,590 Before, during the war, they had to glean, they were starving. 30 00:02:25,770 --> 00:02:28,700 They pounded the grain to make flour, 31 00:02:29,030 --> 00:02:30,470 for bread. 32 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,870 We no longer pick these days, we no longer glean to eat. 33 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:38,270 There are still a few gleaners of corn around. 34 00:02:42,820 --> 00:02:44,540 Gleaning might be extinct 35 00:02:44,750 --> 00:02:48,450 but stooping has not vanished from our sated society 36 00:02:48,850 --> 00:02:51,910 Urban and rural gleaners all stoop to pick up 37 00:02:52,460 --> 00:02:54,520 There's no shame,just worries 38 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,090 Yeah, food, grub 39 00:02:57,660 --> 00:03:00,460 It's bad, sad, man 40 00:03:01,030 --> 00:03:03,000 To bend down is not to beg 41 00:03:03,370 --> 00:03:06,270 But when I see them sway My heart hurts! 42 00:03:06,470 --> 00:03:08,940 Eating that scrap-crap 43 00:03:09,310 --> 00:03:11,610 They've got to live on shit-bits 44 00:03:11,780 --> 00:03:14,370 They've got to frisk for tidbits 45 00:03:14,750 --> 00:03:16,980 Left on the street, leftovers 46 00:03:17,350 --> 00:03:19,580 Rough stuff with no owners 47 00:03:19,790 --> 00:03:22,310 Picking up trash like the streetsweeper 48 00:03:22,660 --> 00:03:24,890 Zero for us, for them much better 49 00:03:25,090 --> 00:03:28,030 They got to roam around to kill the hunger 50 00:03:28,590 --> 00:03:32,720 It's always been the same pain will always be the same game. 51 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,900 In the towns today as in the fields yesterday 52 00:03:41,070 --> 00:03:44,600 gleaners still humbly stoop to glean. 53 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,710 But men have now joined with women 54 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:49,640 in gleaning. 55 00:03:50,780 --> 00:03:54,550 What strikes me is that each gleans on his own. 56 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:56,880 Whereas in paintings 57 00:03:57,590 --> 00:04:01,250 they were always in clusters, rarely alone. 58 00:04:01,660 --> 00:04:03,890 But there's a famous one 59 00:04:04,060 --> 00:04:07,590 painted byJules Breton at the museum in Arras. 60 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:11,270 We took the road north. 61 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:14,960 Lots of big trucks, but I'll come back to that, 62 00:04:15,610 --> 00:04:17,940 and we arrived in the town of Arras, 63 00:04:18,280 --> 00:04:19,680 we saw its square, 64 00:04:19,950 --> 00:04:21,310 we saw its museum, 65 00:04:21,610 --> 00:04:23,710 and Breton's Woman Gleaning. 66 00:04:24,850 --> 00:04:28,750 There is another woman gleaning in this film, that's me. 67 00:04:35,830 --> 00:04:39,760 I'm happy to drop the ears of wheat and pick up my camera. 68 00:04:40,770 --> 00:04:42,430 These new small cameras, 69 00:04:42,700 --> 00:04:44,760 they are digital, fantastic. 70 00:04:44,940 --> 00:04:46,910 Their effects are stroboscopic 71 00:04:47,510 --> 00:04:48,630 narcissistic, 72 00:04:49,110 --> 00:04:50,910 and even hyper-realistic. 73 00:05:34,820 --> 00:05:36,950 No, it's not O rage, 74 00:05:37,290 --> 00:05:38,980 no, it's not O despair, 75 00:05:39,330 --> 00:05:41,560 it's not Old age, my enemy, 76 00:05:41,730 --> 00:05:45,990 it might even be Old age, my friend but still, my hair 77 00:05:46,370 --> 00:05:49,600 and my hands keep telling me that the end is near. 78 00:05:53,070 --> 00:05:56,040 OK, right now, we are driving towards Beauce, 79 00:05:56,380 --> 00:05:59,370 renowned for its wheat. The harvest being over 80 00:05:59,910 --> 00:06:02,510 we'll focus on potato gleaning instead. 81 00:06:03,420 --> 00:06:06,350 Destalking the fields makes furrows 82 00:06:06,590 --> 00:06:09,680 and ridges ready for the grubbing machine. 83 00:06:12,690 --> 00:06:15,460 Once the grubbing is over, 84 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:17,590 we can glean the whole field. 85 00:06:18,930 --> 00:06:21,400 - Hello. - Hello Mrs. Buard. 86 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:26,300 Since this morning, I've collected a full 250 lbs alone. 87 00:06:26,710 --> 00:06:30,470 And these are good ones you eat with herring. 88 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,010 Lots of restaurants buy them. 89 00:06:35,010 --> 00:06:39,310 Some people are quite pleased when the machine malfunctions. 90 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:42,850 There are lots left here. 91 00:06:43,020 --> 00:06:45,990 The tractor ploughs too deep and gets stuck. 92 00:06:46,330 --> 00:06:51,320 They free it by lifting the machine and they miss potatoes there. 93 00:06:51,500 --> 00:06:53,400 So gleaners have a field day? 94 00:06:53,570 --> 00:06:55,060 Oh yes definitely. 95 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,570 The owners don't give a damn 96 00:06:58,740 --> 00:07:00,900 so long as there's nothing left. 97 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:02,760 They won't have to treat. 98 00:07:02,940 --> 00:07:04,340 You still must sort them. 99 00:07:12,990 --> 00:07:15,850 In supermarkets, the firm ones are sold 100 00:07:16,060 --> 00:07:19,550 in containers of 5 1 /2 to 1 1 pounds, 101 00:07:19,730 --> 00:07:22,990 and these have to be of a specific caliber, 102 00:07:23,330 --> 00:07:25,350 of a specific size. 103 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,600 So we dump anything bigger. 104 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:34,470 The potato harvest averages 4,500 tons per season. 105 00:07:34,970 --> 00:07:37,810 But 25 tons are rejected 106 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:40,740 and dumped. 107 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,390 We reject all the outsized, green ones, and stones, 108 00:08:01,570 --> 00:08:04,260 the cut or damaged ones. 109 00:08:04,500 --> 00:08:06,470 Because they're unsellable. 110 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:10,200 To the trade, we sell potatoes 111 00:08:10,380 --> 00:08:13,440 within a range of 2 to 4 inches 112 00:08:13,610 --> 00:08:17,450 and anything bigger is automatically thrown away. 113 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,650 Potatoes remain a staple foodstuff for many 114 00:08:20,820 --> 00:08:24,850 and because large quantities of potatoes are dumped, 115 00:08:25,020 --> 00:08:27,750 the practice of gleaning has reappeared. 116 00:08:27,990 --> 00:08:30,760 In general people wait nearby 117 00:08:30,930 --> 00:08:32,590 and follow the trailers. 118 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:37,730 We followed the trailers but didn't see anyone 119 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:40,560 except a man who might have known, 120 00:08:40,740 --> 00:08:44,540 not through a newspaper though for they never announce 121 00:08:44,740 --> 00:08:47,440 dumping here tomorrow, there next week. 122 00:08:47,910 --> 00:08:50,310 Potatoes left in the open like that 123 00:08:50,750 --> 00:08:53,950 soon become green and dangerous to eat. 124 00:08:55,450 --> 00:08:58,250 Sometimes the children give the signal. 125 00:08:58,590 --> 00:09:00,390 Hey, we found a big one here! 126 00:09:06,770 --> 00:09:07,630 C'mon, catch it! 127 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:09,790 Monday, potatoes 128 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:11,630 Tuesday, potatoes 129 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,530 Wednesday, potatoes again 130 00:09:15,410 --> 00:09:17,310 Thursday, potatoes 131 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:19,440 Friday, potatoes 132 00:09:19,610 --> 00:09:22,010 Saturday, potatoes again 133 00:09:22,650 --> 00:09:25,670 Sunday, potatoes au gratin 134 00:09:28,350 --> 00:09:30,720 Look, I've picked up more or less 135 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,220 200 or 300 pounds. 136 00:09:34,830 --> 00:09:38,460 You find very large ones in the leftovers. 137 00:09:38,630 --> 00:09:40,760 The damaged ones we leave. 138 00:09:40,930 --> 00:09:44,730 Some are too small, we take the large ones rather. 139 00:09:46,070 --> 00:09:47,230 See, 140 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:49,340 misshapen ones, 141 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:50,660 heart-shaped ones. 142 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,330 The heart, I want the heart! 143 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:54,870 I was glad. 144 00:09:55,510 --> 00:09:57,850 I immediately filmed them up close, 145 00:09:59,620 --> 00:10:02,450 and set about filming perilously with one hand 146 00:10:02,620 --> 00:10:05,450 my other hand gleaning heart-shaped potatoes. 147 00:10:16,030 --> 00:10:17,970 Then I took a few home with me. 148 00:10:20,310 --> 00:10:23,400 I looked at them again, filmed them again. 149 00:10:31,620 --> 00:10:34,810 Then it dawned upon me: the Good Heart Charity Meals. 150 00:10:35,650 --> 00:10:38,050 Why not organize an expedition 151 00:10:38,390 --> 00:10:39,760 on the day the potatoes 152 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:41,720 are to be dumped? 153 00:10:42,930 --> 00:10:47,460 When I think of all the food gone bad that's enough to make me mad 154 00:10:47,830 --> 00:10:51,360 If you've been kicked out and you're down and out 155 00:10:51,570 --> 00:10:53,870 Then you need food for nought 156 00:10:54,070 --> 00:10:56,600 I take a few for me and my kids, 157 00:10:59,750 --> 00:11:02,040 and we collect together. 158 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:07,380 I've joined the Charity Meals because I was unemployed. 159 00:11:07,550 --> 00:11:10,820 I still am but I expect to start on a trial job soon 160 00:11:10,990 --> 00:11:15,020 and meanwhile, I'd rather help people than do nothing, 161 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,420 help people in dire straits. 162 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:19,860 I'm a single mother. 163 00:11:20,630 --> 00:11:24,070 I get food from the Red Cross and the Charity Meals. 164 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,360 When I see all this go to waste 165 00:11:28,540 --> 00:11:31,510 and that some people have nothing to eat, 166 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:33,440 it's really disgraceful. 167 00:11:35,980 --> 00:11:38,920 On that day they collected almost 7 00 lbs. 168 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,550 At least that's something. 169 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,390 A little later, almost on the same spot, 170 00:11:53,570 --> 00:11:55,590 we saw a man approaching. 171 00:11:57,900 --> 00:12:00,930 I went over to him and asked him 172 00:12:01,270 --> 00:12:03,610 how much he thought there was. 173 00:12:05,980 --> 00:12:09,970 Almost a ton if you add all the mounds together, 174 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,980 a ton of potatoes wasted. 175 00:12:13,750 --> 00:12:16,620 Same thing with cauliflowers, 176 00:12:16,820 --> 00:12:19,480 fruit and vegetables in other regions, 177 00:12:19,660 --> 00:12:23,060 but here it's potato country, and we take what we find. 178 00:12:24,100 --> 00:12:27,960 We're better off working in the fields than shoplifting. 179 00:12:29,030 --> 00:12:32,060 It's the same for all of us, I'm not alone. 180 00:12:32,900 --> 00:12:34,770 We get by as best we can. 181 00:12:35,510 --> 00:12:37,770 We do potatoes, we look in trash cans, 182 00:12:38,980 --> 00:12:41,040 that keeps me going for now. 183 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:43,550 It's a hard life, that's all. 184 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,080 The year 2K is upon us, great, heh? 185 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,950 OK, I'm on my way with my 7 0 lbs, 186 00:12:54,690 --> 00:12:58,630 and there are several tons left, which could be picked, 187 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:02,530 but people don't know where to come to. There you are. 188 00:13:17,380 --> 00:13:19,780 They are hoboes in caravans. 189 00:13:19,950 --> 00:13:23,980 We are gypsies, we travel around. They're different from us. 190 00:13:26,690 --> 00:13:30,290 It needs to be cut up for the scrap merchant to come. 191 00:13:30,630 --> 00:13:34,930 We don't have the necessary tools. No electricity,just candles. 192 00:13:35,100 --> 00:13:36,930 What do you do for water? 193 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:38,360 What? 194 00:13:38,540 --> 00:13:41,870 Water? That's all we have. It's over there. 195 00:13:42,870 --> 00:13:45,470 That's our tap. 196 00:13:47,380 --> 00:13:49,710 - What if it freezes? - If it freezes... 197 00:13:50,450 --> 00:13:53,350 we pad around the pipe, or we let it drip 198 00:13:53,820 --> 00:13:56,880 to stop it freezing when it gets really cold, 199 00:13:57,060 --> 00:14:01,580 like last year, when it got to -7 0F on the ground. 200 00:14:02,530 --> 00:14:03,620 You get used to it. 201 00:14:14,540 --> 00:14:15,900 You seem to like beer? 202 00:14:16,070 --> 00:14:18,410 I'd drink anything. 203 00:14:18,580 --> 00:14:20,510 How many beers is that? 204 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:22,510 I drink a pack a day. 205 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,380 - What? - Yeah, a pack of 2 4 a day. 206 00:14:25,580 --> 00:14:27,020 2 4 or even 3 2. 207 00:14:29,990 --> 00:14:31,980 Tell me what happened to you. 208 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,520 Did you have a house before? 209 00:14:34,690 --> 00:14:36,920 Yeah, I had a job. 210 00:14:37,530 --> 00:14:39,790 I worked impossible hours, 211 00:14:39,970 --> 00:14:41,870 21 or 22 hours a day. 212 00:14:42,030 --> 00:14:43,520 - Truck driving? - Yeah. 213 00:14:43,700 --> 00:14:45,000 - A trucker? - Yes. 214 00:14:45,340 --> 00:14:47,930 I drove long vehicles. 215 00:14:48,670 --> 00:14:52,610 Then one day the police breathalyzed me and then... 216 00:14:52,910 --> 00:14:56,040 that's how I lost my job. 217 00:14:56,950 --> 00:15:01,540 Then my wife left me, she took my three kids with her, 218 00:15:02,290 --> 00:15:04,780 and I was in free-fall after that. 219 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:06,390 Divorce, everything? 220 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:10,360 Yes, and I haven't seen my kids for almost 2 years. 221 00:15:10,660 --> 00:15:12,760 They're 500 miles away from me. 222 00:15:12,930 --> 00:15:14,690 I can't go and see them. 223 00:15:14,870 --> 00:15:16,930 I don't have a car or a license. 224 00:15:17,970 --> 00:15:19,990 - It's terrible. - Yes it is. 225 00:15:20,340 --> 00:15:22,830 I think of them every single day. 226 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,440 - Here's Guilene. - She'll tell you everything. 227 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:33,540 Did you know that once they're through picking potatoes, 228 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,480 you're allowed to take leftovers? - No. 229 00:15:36,860 --> 00:15:38,720 You didn't know? 230 00:15:38,890 --> 00:15:41,360 - It's not allowed. - Yes it is! 231 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:44,430 I have something very important to say: 232 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,460 Why has the Mayor put us here, I've been here four years, 233 00:15:48,670 --> 00:15:50,690 and now he wants us to go. 234 00:15:50,970 --> 00:15:53,600 He says he was fed up with us gypsies, 235 00:15:53,770 --> 00:15:56,540 but I want to stay here. 236 00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,970 I had an apartment but it cost too much. 237 00:16:00,510 --> 00:16:02,980 Her first trailer cost her $3 50 238 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:04,910 and the latest one, 239 00:16:05,250 --> 00:16:08,620 where I am housed at the moment, $3 5. 240 00:16:09,850 --> 00:16:10,840 We met 241 00:16:11,060 --> 00:16:14,750 when I was working in a cafe as a cleaning woman, 242 00:16:14,930 --> 00:16:16,720 that's how we met. 243 00:16:17,830 --> 00:16:22,630 So long as there's welfare money left, OK, but after... 244 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:25,870 we have to get by somehow. 245 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:28,700 Then we have to beg 246 00:16:29,340 --> 00:16:31,040 and forage through the trash. 247 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:34,870 We find food in the garbage. 248 00:16:35,050 --> 00:16:36,010 Good food? 249 00:16:36,350 --> 00:16:40,720 We're badly off. We do find good food. Which could still be 250 00:16:41,420 --> 00:16:45,360 sold in shops. But they have to change their shelves. 251 00:16:45,590 --> 00:16:48,990 We take advantage of that, it's a lucky draw. 252 00:16:49,330 --> 00:16:52,730 But we have to comb all the garbage cans everywhere 253 00:16:52,930 --> 00:16:54,490 to recover stuff. 254 00:16:54,900 --> 00:16:56,030 See for yourself. 255 00:17:01,940 --> 00:17:03,310 For the soup! 256 00:17:06,980 --> 00:17:08,950 My bunch of flowers! 257 00:17:09,350 --> 00:17:12,440 - Another cucumber. - Sure, there's plenty. 258 00:17:13,390 --> 00:17:15,510 That comes from the trash. 259 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,520 The expiry date is 1 1 -29, two days ago. 260 00:17:19,690 --> 00:17:21,420 - One day ago. - Right. 261 00:17:21,590 --> 00:17:26,000 That's still valid for seven or eight days, a week or so. 262 00:17:26,670 --> 00:17:29,530 I've got fish which I found there. 263 00:17:29,830 --> 00:17:32,230 It's good until 1 2-2 4. 264 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:33,890 We found it in the trash. 265 00:17:34,910 --> 00:17:38,640 We're not afraid to get our hands dirty. You can wash hands. 266 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,340 Hey, guys, the new appetizer 267 00:17:46,750 --> 00:17:49,690 is lamb kidney in a chicory root sauce 268 00:17:50,460 --> 00:17:52,920 with a potato fritter 269 00:17:54,290 --> 00:17:56,320 and an aniseed and nut soup 270 00:17:56,490 --> 00:17:58,890 and mushroom mousse with truffle oil. 271 00:18:02,870 --> 00:18:04,860 As I watched all this cooking, 272 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:08,700 I asked the chef if there were lots of leftovers, and 273 00:18:08,870 --> 00:18:10,400 what he did with them. 274 00:18:10,710 --> 00:18:12,300 Nothing should be wasted. 275 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,740 With the leftover lentils, we make a lentil soup, 276 00:18:15,910 --> 00:18:18,250 we mince the greenery into a gratin, 277 00:18:18,420 --> 00:18:20,440 the meat bones we use for stock 278 00:18:20,620 --> 00:18:23,450 the fish bones for sauce. 279 00:18:24,260 --> 00:18:25,950 We don't throw anything away. 280 00:18:26,690 --> 00:18:29,290 You have to be economical. 281 00:18:30,260 --> 00:18:33,750 If I had to buy all the herbs I pick daily on the hills... 282 00:18:33,930 --> 00:18:36,900 A small bunch of savory like this is $1 .50 283 00:18:37,070 --> 00:18:39,660 and we use about 20 of them every day. 284 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:42,400 We'd be spending a fortune on herbs. 285 00:18:42,570 --> 00:18:44,410 Anyway, I love picking them. 286 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,940 That nice inventive and thrifty chef 287 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:54,750 offers a gourmet menu for $1 00. 288 00:18:55,390 --> 00:18:58,290 Edouard Loubet is the youngest French chef 289 00:18:58,460 --> 00:19:00,920 to have earned 2 stars in the Michelin guide, 290 00:19:01,260 --> 00:19:03,230 now called the Red Guide. 291 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,660 Surprisingly enough, Edouard is also a born gleaner, 292 00:19:07,830 --> 00:19:09,730 or rather a born picker. 293 00:19:09,900 --> 00:19:14,630 With his hat on, in his shirt sleeves, he looks like a Provencal figurine. 294 00:19:17,710 --> 00:19:19,840 Don't tread on the apples! 295 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:24,010 We take what the farmers leave behind 296 00:19:24,380 --> 00:19:26,820 or we pick the ripe fruit on the trees. 297 00:19:26,990 --> 00:19:29,650 This is the best thing you can use 298 00:19:29,820 --> 00:19:32,760 to make good spirits or good fruit jelly. 299 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:36,620 I never miss the chance. 300 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,760 How come you, a chef, also pick? 301 00:19:41,270 --> 00:19:44,670 Firstly because my grandparents taught me to 302 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,460 along fields and roads, 303 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:51,370 and also because 304 00:19:51,540 --> 00:19:55,570 I then know what produce I get and where I get it from. 305 00:19:55,750 --> 00:19:58,650 I don't want refrigerated produce from Italy 306 00:19:58,820 --> 00:20:02,720 which is sold only when someone feels like saying it is ripe. 307 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:06,950 As we're talking grapes and wine... 308 00:20:07,290 --> 00:20:08,380 Let's go, Isa! 309 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:10,650 ...we might as well go to a wine area. 310 00:20:10,830 --> 00:20:12,850 We're off to Burgundy. 311 00:20:16,670 --> 00:20:20,070 On the road, there are trucks, lots of trucks, 312 00:20:20,610 --> 00:20:23,770 of the kind we loved when we were kids. 313 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:26,570 We pass them and gaze at them. 314 00:20:26,740 --> 00:20:30,340 Here's a very big one passing us, transporting cars, 315 00:20:31,050 --> 00:20:32,740 and here's another one. 316 00:20:36,390 --> 00:20:39,410 And now we are passing him, 317 00:20:39,590 --> 00:20:41,960 we struggle a little to pass this one. 318 00:20:42,130 --> 00:20:43,860 It's like a child's game. 319 00:20:47,930 --> 00:20:49,800 We're arriving in Burgundy. 320 00:20:50,940 --> 00:20:53,400 Beaune to me is above all the Hospices 321 00:20:53,570 --> 00:20:55,700 and the painting by Van der Weyden, 322 00:20:55,940 --> 00:20:57,770 The LastJudgment. 323 00:21:00,850 --> 00:21:04,800 The Archangel Michael weighs and judges the deeds of the dead. 324 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,310 The ones who are light are to be resurrected, 325 00:21:10,490 --> 00:21:13,980 and the heavy ones are to suffer in hell. 326 00:21:57,370 --> 00:22:01,530 The grape harvest is over, and yet nobody is in sight. 327 00:22:01,940 --> 00:22:02,910 Why is that? 328 00:22:03,310 --> 00:22:06,570 If you want your wine to be ranked as vintage, 329 00:22:06,740 --> 00:22:08,740 the yearly production is limited. 330 00:22:08,910 --> 00:22:11,710 That means you can only produce 331 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,850 a certain quota per plot. 332 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:19,880 Growing up, I didn't hear much about pickers. 333 00:22:20,060 --> 00:22:24,690 Wine growers have always protected themselves against them, 334 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,930 for if you let people pick in your vines, 335 00:22:28,100 --> 00:22:30,860 how can you be sure they are not 336 00:22:31,100 --> 00:22:33,540 going to pick on a large scale? 337 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:40,280 These vintage vines have been entirely harvested 338 00:22:40,450 --> 00:22:44,750 and the surplus has been deliberately left on the ground. 339 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,080 They're drying out, lost for everybody. 340 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,090 It's a measure to protect our profession and capital. 341 00:22:54,730 --> 00:22:55,920 What you see here, 342 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:59,850 is called second generation grapes, verjuice, 343 00:23:00,330 --> 00:23:03,660 or conscripts, depending on the area. 344 00:23:05,070 --> 00:23:06,260 Conscripts. 345 00:23:06,670 --> 00:23:07,730 Like soldiers? 346 00:23:07,910 --> 00:23:12,770 Exactly, like conscripts. Some people pick them. 347 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,670 It's a second harvest and yields a cheaper wine 348 00:23:16,850 --> 00:23:18,580 called wine of the pickings. 349 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,010 - Will it taste of Pommard? - No, not at all. 350 00:23:24,060 --> 00:23:27,790 It makes a table wine, a really cheap table wine. 351 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:32,490 The vintage wine region is not a good one for picking. 352 00:23:34,300 --> 00:23:37,700 Gleaning, or picking, is forbidden in Burgundy. 353 00:23:37,870 --> 00:23:40,300 It ended 3 or 4 years ago. 354 00:23:40,470 --> 00:23:42,670 It's sad, but that's the way it is. 355 00:23:43,570 --> 00:23:45,800 Gleaning was lovely. 356 00:23:46,810 --> 00:23:49,470 We would see the gleaner, tramping along, 357 00:23:49,650 --> 00:23:51,010 Gathering the relics 358 00:23:51,380 --> 00:23:54,680 Of that which is falling Behind the reaper... 359 00:23:54,890 --> 00:23:56,580 - Do you know? - Du Bellay? 360 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:58,890 - Right? - It is. 361 00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:01,420 Impressive, you know it by heart! 362 00:24:02,830 --> 00:24:05,300 I took over my father's estate. 363 00:24:08,770 --> 00:24:11,430 From the grape to the bottle, 364 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,590 I am the only master on board. 365 00:24:14,570 --> 00:24:16,840 I have no cellarman, no head cellarman. 366 00:24:18,940 --> 00:24:24,250 With Nadine, we choose the best blends for our Chateau bottles. 367 00:24:24,420 --> 00:24:26,780 - Do you both choose? - We both do. 368 00:24:28,020 --> 00:24:29,280 Jean Laplanche, 369 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,020 a keen wine grower, 370 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,490 has another calling, psychotherapy. 371 00:24:34,830 --> 00:24:39,350 I am a practicing therapist, but above all a theoretician, 372 00:24:39,530 --> 00:24:41,860 or rather a philosopher of therapy. 373 00:24:42,630 --> 00:24:44,000 What's your theory? 374 00:24:44,340 --> 00:24:48,800 What distinguishes me, is that I have tried to integrate 375 00:24:49,770 --> 00:24:52,040 into man's psyche, 376 00:24:52,540 --> 00:24:57,740 the Other above the Ego, i.e. I developed an anti-ego philosophy, 377 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,350 a philosophy which shows how man first originates 378 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,280 in the Other. 379 00:25:03,750 --> 00:25:05,650 He copes with his double life? 380 00:25:05,820 --> 00:25:07,880 - Rather well. - He's good, isn't he? 381 00:25:08,060 --> 00:25:11,860 - Rather well. - He's intelligent, I think. And modest. 382 00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:13,920 It keeps me going. 383 00:25:14,700 --> 00:25:17,000 - Isn't it daunting for you? - What is? 384 00:25:17,340 --> 00:25:20,030 That he is a therapist and makes wine too. 385 00:25:20,370 --> 00:25:23,430 I was analyzed so as to learn a little more. 386 00:25:23,610 --> 00:25:25,010 - By him? - No, by Lacan. 387 00:25:25,340 --> 00:25:27,470 - Ages ago. - I was very young. 388 00:25:27,650 --> 00:25:29,270 A long time ago. 389 00:25:29,510 --> 00:25:31,410 We'll be married 50 years 390 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:33,550 in the year 2000. 391 00:25:34,820 --> 00:25:37,290 Tell me how you met. 392 00:25:38,490 --> 00:25:41,420 At a village dance, where most people meet. 393 00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:43,790 - The kiss! - Right... 394 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,360 No one's interested in that! 395 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,370 I must tell you something, 396 00:25:51,540 --> 00:25:54,470 something the whole world should know about. 397 00:25:54,910 --> 00:25:57,310 I met him, it was like a lightning bolt. 398 00:25:57,410 --> 00:25:58,430 You see? 399 00:25:58,610 --> 00:26:02,600 The way he was dressed, I couldn't possibly miss him. 400 00:26:03,650 --> 00:26:06,640 He had a red cap on, honest, 401 00:26:06,820 --> 00:26:09,840 he was back from the Riviera. He looked so... 402 00:26:10,020 --> 00:26:12,920 He had a red cotton cap, 403 00:26:13,260 --> 00:26:15,820 a green shirt, 404 00:26:15,990 --> 00:26:19,220 mustard yellow pants, 405 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,760 rope espadrilles and... 406 00:26:21,930 --> 00:26:23,330 - Yellow ones! - Right. 407 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:28,030 And a multicolored belt. I couldn't miss him,just couldn't. 408 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:32,740 How was she dressed? 409 00:26:33,540 --> 00:26:36,670 That I can't remember. Yeah, it's the old story. 410 00:26:37,010 --> 00:26:40,510 But I didn't fall for her right away. 411 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,580 It all came later with me. 412 00:26:42,890 --> 00:26:44,580 How mean of me! 413 00:26:47,890 --> 00:26:49,360 Is it true, Huguette? 414 00:26:49,530 --> 00:26:52,020 - I'm not in his heart. - It's true. 415 00:26:56,570 --> 00:26:58,900 This is Laurent, my son. 416 00:26:59,070 --> 00:27:01,330 A gleaner or a picker, I'm not sure. 417 00:27:01,510 --> 00:27:04,000 But I heard Glanum, not gleaning, 418 00:27:04,340 --> 00:27:07,900 that's why I talked about Saint-Remy, where Glanum is. 419 00:27:11,250 --> 00:27:12,270 Gleaning, no. 420 00:27:12,450 --> 00:27:16,280 Because gleaning is very different from picking, you see. 421 00:27:16,450 --> 00:27:17,750 But picking, yes. 422 00:27:18,260 --> 00:27:19,750 What's the difference? 423 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,290 The difference is that you pick fruit that hangs, 424 00:27:23,460 --> 00:27:27,630 that is hanging, but you glean things that sprout. 425 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:29,600 Like grain. It's different. 426 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,430 Olives and grain. 427 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,400 Almonds... 428 00:27:36,370 --> 00:27:39,240 Figs too, people make jams out of figs. 429 00:27:40,010 --> 00:27:41,950 The fig, you pick. 430 00:27:44,850 --> 00:27:46,910 Look, nature's wonders! 431 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,310 Overripe and beautiful! 432 00:27:56,460 --> 00:27:58,390 That's fruit from heaven! 433 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,770 I half-feel like interfering, 434 00:28:03,930 --> 00:28:07,770 but it is none of my business, it's their fruit. 435 00:28:10,340 --> 00:28:13,470 This one's almost pure alcohol, I'll be tipsy. 436 00:28:14,350 --> 00:28:16,910 Anyway, half the people are stingy. 437 00:28:18,050 --> 00:28:22,850 They won't allow gleaning because they don't feel like being nice. 438 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:26,590 There's a lot left. 439 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,920 The harvest is over now. 440 00:28:29,260 --> 00:28:30,490 Are these not edible? 441 00:28:30,660 --> 00:28:34,650 Edible, yes, but not good for making candied fruits. 442 00:28:34,900 --> 00:28:37,830 Do you allow people to collect them? 443 00:28:38,270 --> 00:28:42,430 No. I'm not the owner, but up to now, it's never been allowed. 444 00:28:43,940 --> 00:28:46,470 The harvest of the cabbages is over, 445 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,940 only a few are left here and there. 446 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,840 These cabbages can be gleaned 447 00:28:52,020 --> 00:28:54,950 with absolute impunity 448 00:28:55,290 --> 00:28:57,720 by gleaners from Avignon or around. 449 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,250 Here are lovely tomatoes. 450 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,260 The machine couldn't take what's too low. 451 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,490 All these tomatoes, 452 00:29:05,660 --> 00:29:09,900 which are just as red as my bible, the penal code, 453 00:29:10,270 --> 00:29:12,330 all can be gleaned. 454 00:29:12,770 --> 00:29:16,330 And it's not me, it's the penal code that says so, 455 00:29:16,510 --> 00:29:19,870 in article R-26.1 0. Here: 456 00:29:20,850 --> 00:29:25,410 gleaning is allowed from sunup until sundown. 457 00:29:25,580 --> 00:29:26,910 First requirement. 458 00:29:27,620 --> 00:29:29,210 The second requirement 459 00:29:29,390 --> 00:29:31,910 is that gleaning occurs after the harvest. 460 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:36,220 And here, we can clearly see the harvest is over. 461 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,960 Paging through an old law commentary 462 00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:41,230 I happened upon a decree, 463 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,930 or rather an edict, dated Nov. 2, 1 5 54 464 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,930 which says just the same as the law today. 465 00:29:49,270 --> 00:29:53,570 It allows the poor, the wretched, 466 00:29:53,740 --> 00:29:57,700 the deprived, to enter the fields once harvesting is over. 467 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,380 Old documents talk of the poor, the destitute, 468 00:30:01,550 --> 00:30:05,450 but how are we to consider those who want for nothing 469 00:30:05,690 --> 00:30:07,620 and glean just for fun? 470 00:30:07,790 --> 00:30:10,390 It's as if they needed something too. 471 00:30:10,630 --> 00:30:14,390 If they glean for fun, it's because they have a need for fun. 472 00:30:14,570 --> 00:30:17,760 So if the requirements and the times are adhered to, 473 00:30:17,940 --> 00:30:20,500 they can glean as the poor used to. 474 00:30:20,810 --> 00:30:21,830 Thank you. 475 00:30:21,940 --> 00:30:24,030 Sure. I'll take a walk in the cabbages. 476 00:30:31,380 --> 00:30:34,610 I'll walk my small camera among the colored cabbages 477 00:30:34,790 --> 00:30:37,780 and film other vegetables which catch my eye. 478 00:31:02,350 --> 00:31:05,440 On this type of gleaning, of images, impressions, 479 00:31:05,620 --> 00:31:07,550 there is no legislation, 480 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,810 and gleaning is defined figuratively as a mental activity. 481 00:31:11,990 --> 00:31:14,460 To glean facts, acts and deeds, 482 00:31:14,630 --> 00:31:16,560 to glean information. 483 00:31:16,860 --> 00:31:18,490 And for forgetful me, 484 00:31:18,660 --> 00:31:22,390 it's what I have gleaned that tells where I've been. 485 00:31:22,700 --> 00:31:26,900 From Japan, I brought back in my case souvenirs I had gleaned. 486 00:31:34,650 --> 00:31:37,480 I am back home, the cats are here, 487 00:31:37,780 --> 00:31:38,610 there's mail, 488 00:31:39,020 --> 00:31:41,610 one plant's died, the others haven't. 489 00:31:41,890 --> 00:31:45,650 Then I look at the leak in the ceiling and the mold, 490 00:31:45,890 --> 00:31:47,020 I got used to it. 491 00:31:47,830 --> 00:31:49,690 I like it in the end. 492 00:31:49,860 --> 00:31:52,560 It's like a landscape, an abstract painting, 493 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:54,090 a Tapies, 494 00:31:54,770 --> 00:31:55,790 a Guo Qiang, 495 00:31:56,630 --> 00:31:58,070 a Borderie. 496 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:00,040 There's water dripping, 497 00:32:00,340 --> 00:32:01,800 I open my suitcase. 498 00:32:29,830 --> 00:32:33,860 Amazing, in a department store in Tokyo, 499 00:32:34,470 --> 00:32:35,940 on the top floor, 500 00:32:36,340 --> 00:32:38,330 there were Rembrandt paintings, 501 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,310 original Rembrandts. 502 00:32:40,580 --> 00:32:42,740 Saskia, up close. 503 00:32:44,620 --> 00:32:46,610 And then my hand up close, 504 00:32:47,820 --> 00:32:49,910 I mean, this is my project: 505 00:32:50,090 --> 00:32:52,650 to film with one hand my other hand. 506 00:32:54,690 --> 00:32:56,420 To enter into the horror of it. 507 00:32:56,590 --> 00:32:58,530 I find it extraordinary. 508 00:32:58,900 --> 00:33:00,920 I feel as if I am an animal, 509 00:33:01,370 --> 00:33:04,630 worse, I am an animal I don't know. 510 00:33:06,970 --> 00:33:09,770 And here's Rembrandt's self-portrait, 511 00:33:10,740 --> 00:33:14,370 but it's just the same in fact, always a self-portrait. 512 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,340 Maurice Utrillo's 513 00:33:21,790 --> 00:33:25,350 we saw in a very small museum 514 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,620 in the former City Hall of Sannois. 515 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:30,950 We were going 516 00:33:31,330 --> 00:33:34,920 to film nearby, at Herve's, alias VR99. 517 00:33:35,530 --> 00:33:38,660 In the year 2000, his alias will be VR2000. 518 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,430 'Loading up' 519 00:33:41,610 --> 00:33:46,540 means retrieving heavy objects people get rid of. 520 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:48,700 To do so, 521 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:53,280 town councils and city halls provide 522 00:33:53,450 --> 00:33:56,280 small maps such as this one. 523 00:33:56,450 --> 00:33:59,850 It shows all the streets, the districts and the days 524 00:34:00,990 --> 00:34:05,360 on which one can go and pick them up. 525 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,900 I think the maps show where to dump things rather. 526 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,230 Yes, right, well, 527 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,930 I read the map my own way because 528 00:34:17,540 --> 00:34:20,670 that's where I find my raw material. 529 00:34:21,580 --> 00:34:26,450 I am, among other things, a painter and a retriever. 530 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,350 I prefer night time, 531 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:35,250 and because I go by bike, I can only carry small things home. 532 00:34:36,530 --> 00:34:38,790 It'll be easier if I show you. 533 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:44,470 I make images from salvaged material, 534 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,030 frames from wood, 535 00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:49,800 I use food packages, slates, 536 00:34:50,340 --> 00:34:53,570 and then I also recycle 537 00:34:53,780 --> 00:34:57,410 my own packets of cigarette paper, 538 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,570 and what's good about these objects 539 00:35:01,950 --> 00:35:04,820 is that they have a past, they've already had a life, 540 00:35:05,020 --> 00:35:07,550 and they're still very much alive. 541 00:35:07,730 --> 00:35:10,850 All you have to do is give them a second chance. 542 00:35:16,630 --> 00:35:20,470 All you need to do is wander around, locate sites, 543 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:24,970 and then simply help yourself, like in a real department store. 544 00:35:27,610 --> 00:35:30,710 On site, you find heaps of heavy objects, 545 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,540 it is best to get there quickly, 546 00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:35,980 because the competition is fierce. 547 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,520 Objects go quickly. 548 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:54,000 They're like presents left on the street, it's like Christmas. 549 00:35:56,010 --> 00:36:00,270 When I was a kid, my grandfather used to salvage things as well. 550 00:36:00,540 --> 00:36:01,700 He made piles. 551 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:05,410 I've always liked the world of dumps and salvage, 552 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,310 anything that's been sort of discarded by society. 553 00:36:11,390 --> 00:36:13,250 It's like a cavern here. 554 00:36:13,460 --> 00:36:15,790 My own little cavern, that's right. 555 00:36:18,530 --> 00:36:20,290 A place where I combine 556 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:21,890 objects differently. 557 00:36:22,700 --> 00:36:24,600 I need to accumulate. 558 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,500 It's a shelter as well? 559 00:36:27,470 --> 00:36:28,670 From what? 560 00:36:29,610 --> 00:36:32,440 From emptiness. Because it's full here. 561 00:36:34,340 --> 00:36:38,710 I'm moving towards emptiness now, or rather, towards lessness. 562 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,820 As much lessness as possible. 563 00:36:40,980 --> 00:36:43,010 - You're still a long way away! - I am. 564 00:36:44,420 --> 00:36:46,550 Right now, I store up things 565 00:36:46,720 --> 00:36:49,920 because I know I will need to recycle some. 566 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,590 The encounter happens on the street. 567 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:56,560 The object beckons me, because it belongs here in a way. 568 00:36:59,340 --> 00:37:01,930 The encounter also happens on the road, 569 00:37:02,270 --> 00:37:03,830 and it happened to us. 570 00:37:04,740 --> 00:37:07,340 On our left, an abandoned factory. 571 00:37:07,950 --> 00:37:11,510 On the other side, a sign '' Finds''. 572 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:15,410 ''Curios'' is common, but '' Finds'' is more inviting. 573 00:37:22,290 --> 00:37:23,760 Hello, how are you? 574 00:37:24,490 --> 00:37:25,590 Hello. 575 00:37:25,860 --> 00:37:28,260 Turn and face me! He won't. 576 00:37:30,430 --> 00:37:33,030 I spotted some wheat behind that chap, 577 00:37:33,470 --> 00:37:37,630 and behind the robot, I discovered a painting on gleaning. 578 00:37:38,780 --> 00:37:39,830 It contained both 579 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,640 the humble stooping of Millet's Glaneuses 580 00:37:42,850 --> 00:37:45,580 and the proud posture of Breton's Gleaner. 581 00:37:46,020 --> 00:37:49,010 The painter had an old dictionary at hand. 582 00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,580 Honest, this is no movie trick, 583 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,450 we really did find these Glaneuses purely by chance. 584 00:37:56,930 --> 00:38:01,490 The painting had beckoned us because it belonged here in this film. 585 00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:07,930 On the road again, off to the Ideal Palace of Bodan Litnanski, 586 00:38:08,270 --> 00:38:10,800 a much visited, much publicized place. 587 00:38:15,950 --> 00:38:19,280 This retired brickmason came from Russia 588 00:38:19,450 --> 00:38:21,920 and started building totem towers 589 00:38:22,450 --> 00:38:24,440 made of scraps he found in dumps 590 00:38:24,660 --> 00:38:28,560 and brought back in his trailer hooked up to his moped. 591 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,390 It's solid stuff, you know, very solid. 592 00:38:33,030 --> 00:38:34,900 I am a brickmason. 593 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:50,900 I like dolls, they're my system. 594 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:52,740 Dolls are characters. 595 00:38:58,490 --> 00:39:00,390 What do you think of all this? 596 00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:02,320 - He's an amateur. - Sorry? 597 00:39:02,530 --> 00:39:03,720 He's an amateur. 598 00:39:04,030 --> 00:39:06,220 We can't stop him, we let him. 599 00:39:06,530 --> 00:39:08,690 But your husband is an artist. 600 00:39:08,870 --> 00:39:10,700 An artist, well, maybe... 601 00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:13,530 Why not? 602 00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:15,600 There's better than that. 603 00:39:15,770 --> 00:39:18,900 - What? - Better, much better than that. 604 00:39:21,450 --> 00:39:23,640 Like Louis Pons, for instance, 605 00:39:23,810 --> 00:39:25,870 who uses junk as an inspiration. 606 00:39:26,850 --> 00:39:28,720 He draws through objects, 607 00:39:28,890 --> 00:39:30,480 he accommodates chance. 608 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,620 All these objects around here 609 00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:38,920 are my dictionary, 610 00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:40,790 useless things. 611 00:39:42,630 --> 00:39:45,800 People think it's a cluster of junk. 612 00:39:45,970 --> 00:39:48,900 I see it as a cluster of possibilities. 613 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:54,670 Each object gives a direction, each is a line, 614 00:39:54,850 --> 00:39:57,410 picked up here and there, 615 00:39:57,580 --> 00:39:59,780 indeed gleaned, 616 00:39:59,950 --> 00:40:02,480 and which become 617 00:40:02,850 --> 00:40:04,010 my paintings. 618 00:40:04,350 --> 00:40:06,410 The aim of art is to tidy up 619 00:40:06,620 --> 00:40:08,490 one's inner and exterior worlds. 620 00:40:08,660 --> 00:40:11,990 These are just crayons, children's crayons. 621 00:40:13,300 --> 00:40:16,490 Here we have tins and spools... 622 00:40:17,300 --> 00:40:20,000 This is the tongue of a small bell. 623 00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:23,360 I make sentences from things. 624 00:40:24,780 --> 00:40:27,040 A cricket on a heap of trash. 625 00:40:28,780 --> 00:40:32,720 Cages are interesting too, a bit like boats, like violins 626 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,370 and things whose... 627 00:40:36,620 --> 00:40:39,780 shapes at first are very simple and the same, 628 00:40:39,990 --> 00:40:42,930 but the possible variations are infinite. 629 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,590 These are skirting boards and frames. 630 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,460 There is a... from cars... 631 00:40:50,370 --> 00:40:51,560 a windshield wiper. 632 00:40:51,740 --> 00:40:53,830 But for me they are streaks. 633 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,700 I have to balance the streaks. 634 00:40:56,870 --> 00:41:00,540 That's a statement. Horizontal statements, nothing else. 635 00:41:13,290 --> 00:41:17,320 Again one hand filming the other hand, and more trucks. 636 00:41:18,500 --> 00:41:19,720 I'd like to capture them. 637 00:41:20,660 --> 00:41:22,290 To retain things passing? 638 00:41:22,470 --> 00:41:23,730 No,just to play. 639 00:42:09,510 --> 00:42:10,840 Noirmoutier is an island 640 00:42:11,050 --> 00:42:14,740 renowned for its causeway and its oysters. 641 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:17,980 People glean there 642 00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,590 after rough storms and very low tides. 643 00:42:28,370 --> 00:42:30,630 Storms dislodge oysters from their beds 644 00:42:30,870 --> 00:42:32,660 and wash them ashore. 645 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,670 But they all know that around Christmas time, 646 00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:40,640 we are so busy that we leave it to the gleaners. 647 00:42:41,310 --> 00:42:43,300 They go as soon as 648 00:42:43,510 --> 00:42:45,570 the storm has abated. 649 00:42:54,690 --> 00:42:57,460 A high sea over the beds is a pretty sight 650 00:42:57,730 --> 00:42:59,820 but to profit from the low tide 651 00:43:00,030 --> 00:43:03,330 gleaners need a copy of the Tide Tables. 652 00:43:05,700 --> 00:43:08,030 We come every year for the lowest tide. 653 00:43:08,410 --> 00:43:11,840 They're going to follow the receding sea 654 00:43:12,010 --> 00:43:14,480 and anything they find they pick up. 655 00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:30,420 People collect the oysters that have come loose. 656 00:43:31,460 --> 00:43:34,860 In theory, they keep out of the poles around the beds. 657 00:43:35,100 --> 00:43:36,690 They must keep out. 658 00:43:37,870 --> 00:43:39,030 They are too close. 659 00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,860 Here the oyster farmers let them carry on, but... 660 00:43:43,540 --> 00:43:45,340 it degenerates sometimes. 661 00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:47,610 We don't trespass! 662 00:43:47,780 --> 00:43:50,510 The limit must be here, but... 663 00:43:50,710 --> 00:43:52,980 we encroach a little sometimes. 664 00:43:53,550 --> 00:43:56,640 We're not stupid. We see others and do the same. 665 00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,410 If they tell us anything, we scram. 666 00:43:59,820 --> 00:44:02,590 It's tolerated but not really allowed. 667 00:44:02,890 --> 00:44:04,860 It's not downright illegal. 668 00:44:05,430 --> 00:44:07,760 There still exists a right to glean, 669 00:44:07,930 --> 00:44:11,590 provided people glean 1 5 yards from the beds. 670 00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,700 - 25 yards away. - Is it 25 yards now? 671 00:44:15,610 --> 00:44:17,570 What are people allowed to do? 672 00:44:17,740 --> 00:44:20,710 To collect up to 7 pounds each, nothing more. 673 00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,640 - 1 0 yards away minimum. - Right. 674 00:44:23,850 --> 00:44:25,370 1 1 pounds per person. 675 00:44:25,950 --> 00:44:29,540 7 pounds of clams and 1 1 pounds of oysters, 676 00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:31,280 something like that. 677 00:44:31,820 --> 00:44:33,980 1 1 pounds per person, I think. 678 00:44:34,690 --> 00:44:36,250 Three dozen per person 679 00:44:36,430 --> 00:44:38,890 but surely they take more than that. 680 00:44:39,330 --> 00:44:41,630 They pick up small inedible oysters 681 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,460 that were churned by the waves and are full of sand. 682 00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:48,400 People from the mainland eat them, 683 00:44:48,570 --> 00:44:50,470 and then say they get sick. 684 00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,510 TheJura region was flooded. 685 00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:05,240 The river Dard barred our route. 686 00:45:12,430 --> 00:45:15,960 I liked it when animals barred my way, 687 00:45:16,330 --> 00:45:17,990 or I just stopped for them. 688 00:45:58,580 --> 00:46:01,200 The Nenon family, in the hills near Apt, 689 00:46:01,380 --> 00:46:03,610 present a special case of picking. 690 00:46:03,950 --> 00:46:07,610 The vineyard they found was wholly abandoned. 691 00:46:08,790 --> 00:46:11,410 That's a fully fledged harvest here! 692 00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:15,720 Yes, the entire vineyard was left unpruned last year. 693 00:46:16,030 --> 00:46:18,990 An entire harvest going to waste. 694 00:46:19,630 --> 00:46:23,330 I spotted this place and I was very intrigued by it. 695 00:46:23,530 --> 00:46:25,430 Could anybody say anything? 696 00:46:26,940 --> 00:46:30,030 - Don't the owners care? - No. After Nov. 1 , 697 00:46:30,410 --> 00:46:33,640 we are allowed to pick grapes in the vineyards. 698 00:46:35,650 --> 00:46:39,240 If not, they're eaten by wild boars or birds. 699 00:46:39,420 --> 00:46:42,650 - Do wild boars like grapes? - They love grapes. 700 00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:46,320 On that day, 701 00:46:46,620 --> 00:46:48,850 I filmed dancing pruning shears. 702 00:46:49,030 --> 00:46:50,990 I forgot to turn my camera off, 703 00:46:51,460 --> 00:46:54,490 which is why we get the dance of the lens cap. 704 00:47:45,420 --> 00:47:47,280 The cap has stopped its crazy jig. 705 00:47:47,820 --> 00:47:49,940 We're off to see the only owner 706 00:47:50,290 --> 00:47:52,480 who cares for his gleaners. 707 00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:57,490 I warn children about the terrible effects if they eat too much, 708 00:47:57,690 --> 00:48:02,260 but I take for granted that the adults know and I leave them alone. 709 00:48:02,470 --> 00:48:03,430 Jerome Noel-Bouton 710 00:48:03,670 --> 00:48:05,860 shows us an old photo of his vines 711 00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,300 which used to be Marey's. 712 00:48:08,670 --> 00:48:11,400 There is a mini-museum in the cellar. 713 00:48:11,980 --> 00:48:14,310 An engineer and erudite physiologist, 714 00:48:14,940 --> 00:48:17,740 Marey invented chronophotography. 715 00:48:17,910 --> 00:48:19,440 He was a visionary. 716 00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:21,510 He analyzed movement 717 00:48:21,720 --> 00:48:26,280 before Muybridge and the Lumieres. He is the ancestor of all movie makers, 718 00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,490 and we're proud to be family. 719 00:48:29,530 --> 00:48:34,360 Marey was my father's grandfather, which makes him my great-grandfather, 720 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:36,830 and to be more specific, 721 00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,960 my grandfather was Marey's son-in-law, since... 722 00:48:42,310 --> 00:48:44,870 his wife, my grandmother, was Marey's daughter. 723 00:48:45,540 --> 00:48:48,910 She married a man named Bouton 724 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:52,670 and this estate, which used to be in the Bouton family, 725 00:48:52,850 --> 00:48:54,580 was bought by Marey, 726 00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:59,580 and returned to the Bouton family when his daughter married a Bouton. 727 00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:01,350 Congratulations! 728 00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:03,860 The tower you can see over there, 729 00:49:04,330 --> 00:49:06,320 he built with his own two hands 730 00:49:06,530 --> 00:49:09,000 to house his still camera equipment. 731 00:49:09,330 --> 00:49:12,320 He set up wires and waited. 732 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,600 Animals or birds went past, triggering the camera. 733 00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:18,260 That's the hut 734 00:49:18,510 --> 00:49:20,000 from which, 735 00:49:20,410 --> 00:49:22,440 with his chronophotographic rifle, 736 00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:25,010 he broke down the flight of birds. 737 00:49:28,590 --> 00:49:31,020 That's Demeny, Marey's assistant, 738 00:49:31,350 --> 00:49:33,790 holding the rifle and the film reel. 739 00:49:34,490 --> 00:49:37,980 I wonder who the boy with a bowler hat is. 740 00:49:40,700 --> 00:49:42,820 Marey's experimental pictures 741 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:44,530 and film bits, 742 00:49:44,700 --> 00:49:48,470 technical prowess aside, are pure visual delight. 743 00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,400 Our train leaves Paris 744 00:50:18,570 --> 00:50:20,430 and happens to slows down 745 00:50:20,670 --> 00:50:23,000 as we pass Ivry waste collection center. 746 00:50:23,340 --> 00:50:24,740 The heart of our topic, 747 00:50:25,540 --> 00:50:28,510 since we're going to Prades, home of our musician Joanna. 748 00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:32,980 She met youngsters who had had a brush with the law 749 00:50:33,350 --> 00:50:36,440 for damaging the trash bins of a supermarket 750 00:50:36,620 --> 00:50:39,520 because the contents had been doused in bleach. 751 00:50:41,460 --> 00:50:44,520 I thought I could film them explaining the case 752 00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,820 if I met all the protagonists - 753 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,620 the youngsters gathered on the square, 754 00:50:50,130 --> 00:50:51,730 the manager of the shop, 755 00:50:53,140 --> 00:50:55,540 and the magistrate from the court, 756 00:50:56,010 --> 00:50:58,030 who seemed concerned and polite. 757 00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,670 I wanted to know how these homeless 758 00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:03,370 coped with the law. 759 00:51:04,950 --> 00:51:07,710 Should squatting be legalized? 760 00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:10,910 I could work on it, if not for this robe. 761 00:51:12,620 --> 00:51:14,520 But your robe is lovely! 762 00:51:14,690 --> 00:51:18,650 It was a simple case of youngsters vandalizing things. 763 00:51:18,830 --> 00:51:20,690 I found them guilty of violence. 764 00:51:20,860 --> 00:51:22,800 Before bleach was sprayed on? 765 00:51:22,970 --> 00:51:25,300 They'd knock over the trash 766 00:51:25,470 --> 00:51:28,670 and my staff had to clean up after them. 767 00:51:31,810 --> 00:51:35,770 That led me to apply the law 768 00:51:35,950 --> 00:51:38,940 and bleach the trash, which they didn't appreciate. 769 00:51:39,450 --> 00:51:41,420 - We got angry. - But nothing serious. 770 00:51:41,650 --> 00:51:44,480 We knocked over trash cans, 771 00:51:44,650 --> 00:51:48,020 and damaged the wall with graffiti and tomatoes. 772 00:51:48,420 --> 00:51:49,820 They broke the camera. 773 00:51:50,060 --> 00:51:53,360 It was locked, we had to climb a little. 774 00:51:53,660 --> 00:51:56,030 They went over the fence. 775 00:51:56,370 --> 00:51:58,890 They were trespassing on private property. 776 00:51:59,140 --> 00:52:01,870 Appearing in court was itself a penalty 777 00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,470 for these youths who want to be free of all rules. 778 00:52:05,710 --> 00:52:07,510 We only stole trash. 779 00:52:07,740 --> 00:52:11,910 The aim isn't to fine them but to remind them of the law. 780 00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:16,740 They all played their part, applying their own logic. 781 00:52:17,590 --> 00:52:19,750 The kids said what they were supposed to. 782 00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:23,320 We filmed them with their dogs. It was picturesque. 783 00:52:23,490 --> 00:52:26,550 I'm not that antisocial. 784 00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:29,660 - May I ask you how old you are? - 22. 785 00:52:29,830 --> 00:52:34,270 Their beauty is poignant when you realize that, for whatever reason, 786 00:52:34,500 --> 00:52:37,300 they get most of their food from trash cans. 787 00:52:38,780 --> 00:52:40,640 In court, I was told 788 00:52:40,810 --> 00:52:43,900 it was a dialogue of the deaf, but not of the dumb. 789 00:52:44,310 --> 00:52:46,080 They seized the chance to have fun. 790 00:52:46,580 --> 00:52:49,950 I said she was mad, she cited me for contempt of court. 791 00:52:50,550 --> 00:52:54,680 We said she was out of her mind, and she would go: Write it down! 792 00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:57,820 Recorder, write down: Out of her mind! 793 00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:02,590 We felt it was a foregone conclusion. It was sickening. 794 00:53:02,770 --> 00:53:07,000 She opted for trial in closed court. I shouted and slammed the door. 795 00:53:07,970 --> 00:53:11,530 They're not through talking about this episode, 796 00:53:11,710 --> 00:53:15,300 and I'm not through thinking about it in my hotel room. 797 00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:19,350 We filmed and continue to film people who hang around trash cans. 798 00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:21,710 They have various reasons for doing so. 799 00:53:22,350 --> 00:53:24,290 Each experiences it differently. 800 00:53:27,620 --> 00:53:28,820 - Hi! - Here he is! 801 00:53:28,990 --> 00:53:30,050 How are you? 802 00:53:30,390 --> 00:53:32,420 Sit down, there's coffee for you. 803 00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,590 We had been told: '' He wears 804 00:53:36,830 --> 00:53:39,030 rubber boots. He salvages everything''. 805 00:53:39,370 --> 00:53:42,930 Yes, I live almost 1 00% on things from the trash. 806 00:53:47,510 --> 00:53:49,030 Everybody, rich or poor, 807 00:53:49,410 --> 00:53:51,280 throws food away. Why? 808 00:53:51,450 --> 00:53:54,010 Because we are so stupid with food! 809 00:53:54,350 --> 00:53:58,510 If we're past the sell-by date of a yogurt, people go: 810 00:53:58,690 --> 00:54:01,020 ''Oh my God, I can't eat this! 811 00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:03,380 It'll kill me!'' 812 00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:04,860 So stupid. 813 00:54:05,030 --> 00:54:06,960 It's easy 814 00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,460 to tell from the smell of it if it's OK or not. 815 00:54:10,930 --> 00:54:14,930 It's quite simple, I've eaten 1 00% trash for 1 0 years now... 816 00:54:15,540 --> 00:54:17,770 for 1 0 or 1 5 years, 817 00:54:17,940 --> 00:54:20,370 I've never been ill. 818 00:54:20,780 --> 00:54:22,740 - You don't have a job? - I do. 819 00:54:22,910 --> 00:54:27,010 I have a job, a salary, a social security number. 820 00:54:27,350 --> 00:54:29,650 So you are not forced to do that? 821 00:54:29,820 --> 00:54:32,310 Absolutely not. 822 00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:36,050 Salvaging is a matter of ethics for me, 823 00:54:36,390 --> 00:54:39,380 because I find it utterly unacceptable to see 824 00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:41,890 all this waste on the streets. 825 00:54:42,870 --> 00:54:46,960 That proves we're heading for disasters, like the Erika oil spill. 826 00:54:47,370 --> 00:54:48,460 Oil Slick 827 00:55:07,690 --> 00:55:09,720 Put the head on the right. 828 00:55:13,460 --> 00:55:14,260 Looser... 829 00:55:19,370 --> 00:55:20,930 Sea birds, 830 00:55:21,270 --> 00:55:23,600 guillemots, razorbill penguins, 831 00:55:23,810 --> 00:55:27,370 all those who were smashed up real good by Total Fina Oil, 832 00:55:27,710 --> 00:55:30,910 those who will get smashed up real good 833 00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:34,410 by this over-consuming society... If they are cleaned, 834 00:55:34,580 --> 00:55:37,610 the birds might still get caught in nets, 835 00:55:37,790 --> 00:55:40,480 it's for them that I'm an activist. 836 00:55:40,660 --> 00:55:42,950 All the rest can die in their apartments, 837 00:55:43,290 --> 00:55:46,490 on their trash, I don't care. Birds first. 838 00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:53,900 Do you always wear boots? 839 00:55:54,070 --> 00:55:57,400 Yes, rubber boots have 2 advantages, 840 00:55:57,570 --> 00:56:01,510 on this hostile ground, they're really good stuff. 841 00:56:01,780 --> 00:56:04,410 There's a psychological aspect too, 842 00:56:04,580 --> 00:56:07,570 with my boots, I'm like the lord of this town. 843 00:56:07,750 --> 00:56:09,550 All these idiots dump away, 844 00:56:09,720 --> 00:56:12,620 I come after them and rake in the chips. 845 00:56:17,590 --> 00:56:19,890 Trash is Beautiful! 846 00:56:20,060 --> 00:56:23,460 An exhibition featuring demonstration trash cans 847 00:56:23,630 --> 00:56:26,800 was organized to teach children 848 00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:28,770 how to sort out the trash. 849 00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,270 At Trash is Beautiful, they like colors, 850 00:56:39,780 --> 00:56:42,340 and children play with bits of junk. 851 00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:44,990 This is just plastic from the street. 852 00:56:49,030 --> 00:56:52,260 Gino Rizzi is in charge of the kids' workshop. 853 00:56:53,730 --> 00:56:57,060 He himself transforms pots of yogurt into flowers 854 00:56:58,900 --> 00:57:01,500 and plastic bottles into mobiles. 855 00:57:04,740 --> 00:57:07,710 Where does play end and art start? 856 00:57:08,410 --> 00:57:11,440 Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art 857 00:57:14,820 --> 00:57:16,720 The American artist Sze 858 00:57:16,890 --> 00:57:20,220 exhibits mobiles made with lots of bits and pieces. 859 00:57:22,260 --> 00:57:25,390 The kitchen trash has made it to the art world, 860 00:57:25,630 --> 00:57:28,650 where junk is highly-prized and priced. 861 00:57:42,340 --> 00:57:43,830 In any case, museum trash 862 00:57:44,050 --> 00:57:47,640 is small, cute, clean and colorful. 863 00:57:47,820 --> 00:57:50,980 Have those kids ever seen brooms in action, 864 00:57:52,390 --> 00:57:55,480 or shaken hands with a garbage collector? 865 00:57:59,830 --> 00:58:00,990 - How are you? - Fine. 866 00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:05,460 That's neighborhood life. 867 00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:08,390 I live here 868 00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:11,700 at Mr. Charlie Plusquellec's, because he's a friend. 869 00:58:12,540 --> 00:58:13,670 More than a friend, 870 00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:17,640 a protector, a godfather, he's everything to me. 871 00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:21,870 I am so very very happy, very glad, I am here 872 00:58:22,420 --> 00:58:23,720 surrounded by nature. 873 00:58:24,050 --> 00:58:24,950 You see, 874 00:58:25,350 --> 00:58:27,480 it's worse than paradise. 875 00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:31,550 Salomon is a little bit like a migrating bird. 876 00:58:31,730 --> 00:58:33,890 He arrives, he moves in, 877 00:58:34,060 --> 00:58:36,930 and then one day, he disappears. 878 00:58:37,270 --> 00:58:40,700 And then he comes back again, and then leaves. 879 00:58:41,740 --> 00:58:44,470 So far he's been back 3 times. 880 00:58:45,340 --> 00:58:48,710 Every day, I come out of here, 881 00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:51,270 I wander around, 882 00:58:51,910 --> 00:58:55,850 looking here and there for throw-aways. 883 00:59:07,930 --> 00:59:10,330 Don't touch anything! 884 00:59:10,900 --> 00:59:12,800 - You hear me? - Yes, Ma'am. 885 00:59:12,970 --> 00:59:15,440 Don't you understand what I said? 886 00:59:16,810 --> 00:59:20,870 Every morning, early, you come across a little something. 887 00:59:21,580 --> 00:59:22,980 It's like a lottery. 888 00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:28,780 It's good. 889 00:59:32,250 --> 00:59:33,650 There's lots. 890 00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:35,850 Do you need it? 891 00:59:36,030 --> 00:59:38,020 Wait, he might want some. 892 00:59:38,460 --> 00:59:39,930 Want some bread? 893 00:59:41,300 --> 00:59:43,770 I always come here and help myself. 894 00:59:45,500 --> 00:59:47,900 Sometimes you get good cold meats, 895 00:59:48,070 --> 00:59:51,010 sometimes fowl, a bit of everything. 896 00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:54,770 Salomon found 897 00:59:55,610 --> 00:59:57,980 chicken legs. 898 00:59:58,810 --> 01:00:03,010 So I'll cook the meat before it goes off. 899 01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:07,990 You're going to eat chicken and rabbit for a month! 900 01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:10,380 No, don't worry. 901 01:00:10,590 --> 01:00:13,620 We always find someone to share with. 902 01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:20,400 We give it to the neighbors, the woman next door especially. 903 01:00:31,850 --> 01:00:32,970 That's good. 904 01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:34,770 Right now, 905 01:00:35,020 --> 01:00:36,920 we have 1 , 2, 3, 906 01:00:37,550 --> 01:00:40,920 4 fridges and 2 freezers 907 01:00:41,090 --> 01:00:44,620 that we picked up and fixed. 908 01:00:45,860 --> 01:00:48,300 I patch them up, I fix them, 909 01:00:48,500 --> 01:00:51,330 and when the machine works I sell it or... 910 01:00:51,630 --> 01:00:54,030 I give it away to our neighbors. 911 01:01:04,580 --> 01:01:07,240 Fridges are everywhere on the streets. 912 01:01:07,820 --> 01:01:10,550 Sometimes they work, sometimes not. 913 01:01:12,450 --> 01:01:15,580 The Waste Ground artists of Villeneuve sur Lot 914 01:01:15,820 --> 01:01:17,550 collects fridges 915 01:01:17,730 --> 01:01:21,750 and recycle them as fully furnished, fitted spaces. 916 01:01:34,740 --> 01:01:35,940 Fridge Demo 917 01:01:38,050 --> 01:01:40,280 Free our comrades! 918 01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:48,550 My neighbor the Lion of Denfert 919 01:01:48,690 --> 01:01:50,450 is made of bronze. 920 01:01:51,930 --> 01:01:54,900 My friend the Lion in Arles is made of stone. 921 01:01:56,330 --> 01:01:58,320 We got there in the early hours. 922 01:02:00,740 --> 01:02:03,530 The people from the fair were still asleep, 923 01:02:03,870 --> 01:02:07,330 and I saw a man looking at the river flow by. 924 01:02:11,050 --> 01:02:13,840 I half-felt like talking to him. 925 01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:23,550 Further on, along the Rhone, 926 01:02:23,790 --> 01:02:25,320 in a blissful orchard 927 01:02:25,860 --> 01:02:27,730 I saw gleaners arrive. 928 01:02:29,330 --> 01:02:30,700 You can tell them 929 01:02:30,900 --> 01:02:34,360 from their boxes, sacks and plastic bags 930 01:02:34,540 --> 01:02:39,000 which don't look anything like the standard containers of the workers. 931 01:02:39,680 --> 01:02:42,970 My name's David, I'm a foreman at the Cape farm. 932 01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:45,640 We often allow 933 01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:47,750 gleaners to come in 934 01:02:47,980 --> 01:02:49,750 after our pickers 935 01:02:49,950 --> 01:02:52,550 provided they remain 1 0 yards behind. 936 01:02:54,020 --> 01:02:57,890 Look, there's still a lot left in the trees. 937 01:02:58,590 --> 01:03:00,820 We just take advantage of this. 938 01:03:01,060 --> 01:03:04,690 I collect them so that they don't go to waste, 939 01:03:04,870 --> 01:03:07,600 and I share them out, 940 01:03:07,770 --> 01:03:10,030 we stew them or whatever. 941 01:03:10,540 --> 01:03:14,770 I want to pick them because there're lots left as you can see. 942 01:03:15,380 --> 01:03:17,680 I don't take damaged ones, 943 01:03:17,850 --> 01:03:20,370 because my children are very particular. 944 01:03:20,550 --> 01:03:23,020 They're used to getting the best. 945 01:03:24,750 --> 01:03:27,590 This one is damaged so I chuck it away. 946 01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,850 We gleaners also discard some fruit. 947 01:03:32,060 --> 01:03:35,760 Here's an apple which has got nothing going for it, 948 01:03:35,930 --> 01:03:38,590 it's like an ugly and stupid woman. 949 01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:41,290 It's small and sunburnt. 950 01:03:41,470 --> 01:03:43,560 Commercial value: zero. 951 01:03:45,010 --> 01:03:47,700 We can't prevent people 952 01:03:48,110 --> 01:03:51,880 from providing themselves with apples 953 01:03:52,050 --> 01:03:54,520 once we have finished harvesting. 954 01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:57,680 So we proclaim an official gleaning period, 955 01:03:57,850 --> 01:04:00,290 we take car registrations down, 956 01:04:00,390 --> 01:04:04,020 if it's a moped, we ask for a Xerox of the owner's I D 957 01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:09,300 and we tell them from when to when they can come and collect. 958 01:04:09,930 --> 01:04:11,920 Isn't it a bit over-regulated? 959 01:04:12,330 --> 01:04:15,630 Well, it's either that or nothing at all. 960 01:04:17,710 --> 01:04:20,370 Once people are registered, 961 01:04:20,610 --> 01:04:25,340 they can take 400 pounds, I don't mind, even if it's a whole lot. 962 01:04:25,810 --> 01:04:27,480 Good for them. 963 01:04:27,980 --> 01:04:30,580 In this field of 3 hectares, 964 01:04:30,820 --> 01:04:34,050 at least 1 0 tons will be left unpicked. 965 01:04:34,690 --> 01:04:37,780 That gives the gleaners quite a lot of exercise. 966 01:04:41,030 --> 01:04:44,760 You have to find them behind the trees, under the leaves. 967 01:04:44,930 --> 01:04:47,030 It takes a while to fill up a basket. 968 01:04:47,370 --> 01:04:50,700 Picking is not a piece of cake, it's hard work. 969 01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:00,310 Quite a few have fallen here. 970 01:05:01,750 --> 01:05:03,950 You just have to pick them up. 971 01:05:06,490 --> 01:05:10,480 Robert, a gleaner of many crops, let us follow him. 972 01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:24,900 I'm looking for pine nuts. 973 01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:27,030 You're really thorough! 974 01:05:27,380 --> 01:05:30,740 Right, I really don't let anything go by. 975 01:05:30,950 --> 01:05:34,010 In this greenhouse, the tomato harvest is over. 976 01:05:34,350 --> 01:05:37,410 We pick the remains before they clean the place. 977 01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:40,410 Here, see the tomatoes... 978 01:05:41,860 --> 01:05:44,350 That's nature, it shouldn't be wasted. 979 01:05:45,090 --> 01:05:48,360 It's abandoned. Once the harvest is over, 980 01:05:48,530 --> 01:05:51,470 it's not worth hiring people just for those. 981 01:05:51,630 --> 01:05:53,500 They'd rather let us do it. 982 01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:57,300 Can anybody go in the greenhouses? 983 01:05:57,470 --> 01:06:00,770 No, not the greenhouses. I don't know what the law is. 984 01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:04,270 Greenhouses are a facility to grow vegetables. 985 01:06:04,450 --> 01:06:06,410 Once the harvest is collected, 986 01:06:06,580 --> 01:06:10,610 there's some left, a few tomatoes, grapes, carrots or celery. 987 01:06:10,990 --> 01:06:13,450 If gleaners remain within the law 988 01:06:13,620 --> 01:06:15,610 farmers can't say anything, 989 01:06:15,790 --> 01:06:18,660 can't sue them for anything. 990 01:06:18,830 --> 01:06:20,350 Even on their property? 991 01:06:20,530 --> 01:06:21,860 Even then, precisely, 992 01:06:22,030 --> 01:06:24,590 gleaning is always on private property. 993 01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:30,440 Mr. Dessaud, our lawyer in the fields, explained gleaning rights. 994 01:06:31,310 --> 01:06:35,800 Mrs. Espie, our lawyer in the streets, tells us about salvaging rights. 995 01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:46,010 The law on gleaning doesn't apply to these objects. 996 01:06:47,020 --> 01:06:48,610 '' Res derelictae'' 997 01:06:48,820 --> 01:06:50,350 are ownerless things, 998 01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:54,660 since the owner's intention has been clearly expressed: 999 01:06:54,830 --> 01:06:57,730 they have deliberately abandoned them. 1000 01:06:58,030 --> 01:07:00,800 Only the penal code deals with their status 1001 01:07:00,970 --> 01:07:05,410 and says this property can't be stolen since it has no owner. 1002 01:07:05,770 --> 01:07:10,370 Those who take the object become its legal owners. 1003 01:07:10,610 --> 01:07:14,280 This acquisition is unusual, since it comes from no one. 1004 01:07:15,420 --> 01:07:18,250 Once taken, the object belongs to them 1005 01:07:18,420 --> 01:07:20,290 irrevocably. 1006 01:07:20,860 --> 01:07:22,220 Thank you very much. 1007 01:07:22,390 --> 01:07:23,480 You're welcome. 1008 01:07:23,960 --> 01:07:26,480 Yeah. Sidelined beds on the sidewalk 1009 01:07:26,800 --> 01:07:29,460 Washed-out machines, tired-out fridges 1010 01:07:29,630 --> 01:07:31,960 just bend down and grab your furniture 1011 01:07:32,300 --> 01:07:35,430 Yeah. Cookers, cushions, club armchairs 1012 01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:39,400 Weary wood chairs and TVsets, Worn-out couches 1013 01:07:39,610 --> 01:07:42,410 just bend over,you're made over 1014 01:07:42,580 --> 01:07:44,910 Street rehab and TVrap,yeah,yeah! 1015 01:07:45,280 --> 01:07:46,340 Broken TVs 1016 01:07:51,290 --> 01:07:53,520 I've seen lots ofTVs abandoned, 1017 01:07:53,690 --> 01:07:55,620 and within a few minutes 1018 01:07:57,830 --> 01:08:00,060 somebody was taking out the copper. 1019 01:08:05,530 --> 01:08:08,230 It's the copper from the deflector coils. 1020 01:08:22,480 --> 01:08:25,540 I looked at the magic screen thinking I began this film 1021 01:08:26,420 --> 01:08:28,750 right after the eclipse shown on TV, 1022 01:08:29,620 --> 01:08:32,990 continued while the countdown to Y2Kwas shown on TV, 1023 01:08:34,030 --> 01:08:36,930 and ended the film on the 1 st of May... 1024 01:08:41,900 --> 01:08:43,300 Other people 1025 01:08:43,770 --> 01:08:47,330 take TVs home, hoping to repair them. 1026 01:08:48,340 --> 01:08:51,970 I found 2 small chairs on the street and took them home. 1027 01:08:56,790 --> 01:08:59,720 One night when the bulky refuse is thrown out, 1028 01:08:59,890 --> 01:09:04,220 I drove around with Francois who had done one of my film scores 1029 01:09:04,490 --> 01:09:06,220 and who also sang. 1030 01:09:16,340 --> 01:09:19,330 He has dressed in white for 25 years. 1031 01:09:20,910 --> 01:09:23,880 Francois is curious, he likes rummaging, 1032 01:09:24,050 --> 01:09:26,670 but he didn't find anything that night. 1033 01:09:29,450 --> 01:09:31,390 He looked at an empty clock 1034 01:09:31,550 --> 01:09:33,210 and he turned it down. 1035 01:09:34,420 --> 01:09:36,980 I picked it up and took it home. 1036 01:09:41,930 --> 01:09:45,020 A clock without hands is my kind of thing. 1037 01:09:48,970 --> 01:09:51,600 You don't see time passing. 1038 01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:18,860 I like filming rot, leftovers, waste, 1039 01:10:19,330 --> 01:10:21,530 mold and trash. 1040 01:10:25,410 --> 01:10:27,430 But I never forget 1041 01:10:27,610 --> 01:10:31,840 those who shop in the leftovers and trash when the market is over. 1042 01:10:43,060 --> 01:10:44,490 It's past 2 o'clock. 1043 01:10:44,860 --> 01:10:47,490 I've done my shopping and I linger on 1044 01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:49,860 until the market is over. 1045 01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:55,700 I notice a man with a large bag eating on the spot. 1046 01:11:01,380 --> 01:11:04,640 I would see him now and then, always with his bag, 1047 01:11:05,010 --> 01:11:06,810 always eating. 1048 01:11:13,090 --> 01:11:14,780 The day he was eating parsley 1049 01:11:15,020 --> 01:11:16,890 I went over to him. 1050 01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:19,420 Do you often eat parsley? 1051 01:11:19,590 --> 01:11:22,830 Sometimes yes. Parsley's full of vitamin C and E, 1052 01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:26,700 beta carotene, zinc, magnesium, it's excellent. 1053 01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:30,700 His answer amazed me. 1054 01:11:31,810 --> 01:11:34,640 Over the following weeks, I filmed him 1055 01:11:34,910 --> 01:11:39,040 repeatedly, with or without sound, and he talked in snatches. 1056 01:11:40,620 --> 01:11:42,880 I pick up food at the markets 1057 01:11:43,820 --> 01:11:46,550 and I save money that way. 1058 01:11:47,690 --> 01:11:50,420 I'm mostly a vegetarian, 1059 01:11:50,590 --> 01:11:52,920 so I find what I need. 1060 01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:57,090 I don't make much, 1061 01:11:57,430 --> 01:11:59,020 but I still have to eat. 1062 01:12:03,410 --> 01:12:05,840 You should see what they get rid of... 1063 01:12:08,910 --> 01:12:11,850 From the markets, I get fruit, 1064 01:12:12,010 --> 01:12:13,480 vegetables mostly, 1065 01:12:13,850 --> 01:12:16,480 sometimes cheese too, but that's rare. 1066 01:12:23,430 --> 01:12:25,420 I eat a lot of apples. 1067 01:12:25,590 --> 01:12:29,320 And here I can get as many apples as I want. 1068 01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:33,860 - How many apples a day do you eat? - 6 or 7. 1069 01:12:34,900 --> 01:12:36,670 Is it your staple diet? 1070 01:12:37,510 --> 01:12:39,340 I also eat bread. 1071 01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:45,750 I get up at 4, I take the train 1072 01:12:45,980 --> 01:12:50,420 and I arrive in Paris at 5:45. 1073 01:12:51,690 --> 01:12:53,680 Between 6 and 7, 1074 01:12:53,860 --> 01:12:57,550 they throw away all of the bread from the day before. 1075 01:12:57,930 --> 01:13:00,590 If you spot a trash can near a bakery 1076 01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:03,730 it's likely to contain sandwiches, bread, 1077 01:13:03,930 --> 01:13:05,330 and all that. 1078 01:13:09,270 --> 01:13:13,760 I eat a lot of bread. It's a staple food full of proteins and glucids. 1079 01:13:13,940 --> 01:13:16,040 It's strange to be concerned... 1080 01:13:16,380 --> 01:13:18,350 - About balanced diets? - Yes. 1081 01:13:18,810 --> 01:13:20,910 Since I studied biology, 1082 01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:25,450 it's quite normal I should be concerned. 1083 01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:30,320 I used to be a teaching assistant. 1084 01:13:30,490 --> 01:13:33,460 When people find out I have a Master's degree, 1085 01:13:33,630 --> 01:13:37,860 they don't understand why I sell papers to make money. 1086 01:13:38,530 --> 01:13:41,800 I sell street papers or magazines. 1087 01:13:44,410 --> 01:13:47,400 Most times in front of the train station. 1088 01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:18,670 I live in a shelter where 50% 1089 01:14:19,040 --> 01:14:21,270 of the people are illiterate. 1090 01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:26,310 Immigrants from Mali and Senegal mostly. 1091 01:14:27,420 --> 01:14:31,250 I arrived in that shelter 8 years ago, 1092 01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:35,320 and I've been teaching them to read and write for 6 years. 1093 01:14:35,820 --> 01:14:40,320 I am not part of the school system, I don't get paid for it. 1094 01:14:42,660 --> 01:14:47,260 I teach every evening from 6:30 / 7:00 1095 01:14:47,500 --> 01:14:49,660 until 8:30 / 9:00. 1096 01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:57,540 He arranged and decorated the classroom himself 1097 01:14:58,110 --> 01:15:02,210 for the students who may attend whenever they please. 1098 01:15:14,530 --> 01:15:17,590 Ac, ec, ic, oc... 1099 01:15:17,930 --> 01:15:19,420 And see, for example, 1100 01:15:20,940 --> 01:15:23,460 a noc-turnal ac-tivity. 1101 01:15:23,740 --> 01:15:28,700 Right, a nocturnal activity. 1102 01:15:28,910 --> 01:15:30,570 What does ''nocturnal'' mean? 1103 01:15:34,580 --> 01:15:36,350 Success? Success is... 1104 01:15:36,520 --> 01:15:38,990 Isn't success like a behavior? 1105 01:15:40,460 --> 01:15:41,980 It's to succeed in life. 1106 01:15:42,660 --> 01:15:44,390 Somebody who has succeeded. 1107 01:15:44,590 --> 01:15:47,360 - Like Celine Dion has? - Right. 1108 01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:48,920 Famous? 1109 01:15:49,100 --> 01:15:51,430 But it's more like the will to... 1110 01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:52,690 Succeed. 1111 01:15:52,870 --> 01:15:55,600 Yes, when you've succeeded, that's success. 1112 01:15:58,710 --> 01:16:01,300 A use-ful... in-sect. 1113 01:16:02,240 --> 01:16:02,900 What's that? 1114 01:16:03,380 --> 01:16:04,710 A cockroach. 1115 01:16:05,680 --> 01:16:08,270 I don't know if it is useful but... 1116 01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:10,850 but it is an insect. 1117 01:16:16,660 --> 01:16:18,020 Meeting that man 1118 01:16:18,390 --> 01:16:21,890 is what impressed me the most. 1119 01:16:22,730 --> 01:16:26,290 And the time it took to find out about his nocturnal 1120 01:16:27,370 --> 01:16:30,000 and voluntary activity in a suburban basement. 1121 01:16:37,850 --> 01:16:41,040 The other high point is quite different in kind. 1122 01:16:42,050 --> 01:16:44,310 I talked the Museum of Villefranche 1123 01:16:44,490 --> 01:16:46,480 into bringing out from its reserves 1124 01:16:46,820 --> 01:16:48,310 a painting by Hedouin 1125 01:16:48,490 --> 01:16:51,890 which I had seen reproduced in black and white. 1126 01:16:52,890 --> 01:16:55,890 Brigitte, the curator, and her assistant,Julie 1127 01:16:56,060 --> 01:16:58,330 had to disturb several sleepy paintings 1128 01:16:58,530 --> 01:17:01,300 before finding the one I wanted to reveal: 1129 01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:03,960 Gleaners Fleeing Before the Storm. 1130 01:17:16,550 --> 01:17:18,420 To see them in broad daylight, 1131 01:17:18,590 --> 01:17:21,750 with stormy gusts lashing against the canvas, 1132 01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:24,320 was true delight. 1133 01:17:25,320 --> 01:17:35,320 Downloaded From www.AllSubs.org