Society
How I became invisible
Camera, tracking, data, homeland security, NSA… Can we really get over the technological control? How to become invisible in 2016 ?
Listened, watched, tracked, Alexandra Ranz travels the world searching for new techniques to get rid of private life intrusion, to erase her personal data from the int...
Saint Martin, 1700 years of sharing
In the harsh winter of 324, a dazzling cavalry officer from the Roman Imperial Guard stop his horse in front of a nearly naked man, then take from his shoulders his immense white cloak, made from two pieces of fabric, one lined with sheepskin, and separate the two parts with his sword to make the un...
A crazy hope
This crazy dream belongs to a man who almost lost his mind, and who, having recovered from his own illness, has devoted himself to helping the poorest of Africa’s sick: the insane.
In the big cities of Africa, the mentally ill can be seen wandering the streets, yelling and shouting, often completel...
A Life in a Box
Every year, more than 3 million French people move house. And each time, it's the same concern: putting one’s whole life in boxes, then entrusting them to the more or less gentle hands of movers or friends, then changing one’s environment, getting used to a new address, forming new habits... Accordi...
Citizens’ Currency
Creating money isn’t a privilege purely reserved to state banks.
Since 2010, local currencies have been launched all over France. Issued by the citizens themselves, their role is to restore, on their territory, the humanity and meaning that conventional money no longer has in their eyes, while re-es...
Parents for life
Their son is a criminal and they will bear this cross forever. They are the parents of Matthieu, who in 2011, at a boarding school in Chambon sur Lignon, killed his friend, Agnès, who was 13 years old. To date in France, Matthieu is the only person to have been sentenced to life imprisonment for a c...
Post Mortem and other small hassles
Family company 'Vita', implanted in the suburbs of Lyon, is specialized in cleaning up places where were found dead bodies, filthy apartments and other pests. Christophe Mercier, head manager, decided a few years ago to develop a specific human remains cleaning protocol. His team faces sickening mel...
TAKANAKUY, HAND-TO-HAND AGAINST THE WORLD
In a remote region of Peru, every December 25th, men, women and children fight to maintain their tradition.
In these isolated mountains in the heart of the Peruvian Andes, among the illuminated Christmas trees, cribs and figurines, a five hundred year old tradition is perpetuated to settle conflicts...
The Vaujours Kamikazes, Nuclear Sorcerer’s Apprentices
Opened in 1955 on the initiative of General de Gaulle, the Centre d’Etudes Atomiques de Vaujours (Vaujours Atomic Studies Centre) actively contributed to the creation of the French atomic bomb. In 1997, Jacques Chirac closed this site, located just 15 kilometers from Paris.
Now abandoned, the sit...
Catholics, the new generation
Since the “Manif Pour Tous” against the opening of marriage to same sex couples, a new militant wind is blowing amongst Catholics.
France, the country of secularism, has often mistreated them. But now, with Taubira’s “marriage for everyone” bill, they are waking up and revealing themselves.
They are...
