Kaleidoscope, looking at life frames (2002)

In each episode, Kaleidoscope chooses an unusual site, public or private, in Europe or elsewhere and describes it in a succession of fragmented glances: the people who live and work there, their activities, their current projects, historical traces which keep reappearing. Encounters and conversations with the actors and the observers of this locale punctuate this approach. To "illustrate" each site, the collection tells its story, meets the inhabitants, meets an artist or a craftsman who lives there and shows his works. This help to draw a living and yet multifaceted portrait of each location and its inhabitants. It is precisely this which the plural of the title underlines : looking at life frames. Our guide is a cheerful, playful little man, set into the image, "Mr. Kaleidoscope", who introduces and who marks (opens and closes) each subject. From episode to episode, Kaleidoscope takes us to travel across the world and recounts the variations in our lifestyles. Thus, we will move from a liner to a factory, from a gentrified neighbourhood to a school, to the development of industrial wasteland to the rehabilitation of a village.