Natacha Thiéry

The film captures four years (late 2019-late 2023) of an unprecedented wave of feminist and antifascist activism, as expressed onto walls through collages sharing the similar graphic style. Political gestures, both individual and collective, these calls to rise up against patriarchy and capitalism, as a response to the silencing of acts of violence, are changing all at one time the public space and subjectivities under our very eyes. Trespassing, taking (back) the streets, making visible what wasn’t, in a society becoming more and more violently polarized. Here and elsewhere, as long as it will take.

a film by Natacha Thiéry

For the first time in 80 years, Labour Day 2020 is experienced in confinement, everywhere in the world. At the end of April 2020, as Labour Day is approaching, I am sending a cinematographic letter from Paris to a friend living in Tokyo. The two capitals are in a state of sanitary emergency because of the Covid-19 virus. As Labour Day 2020 is approaching, the memory of Labour Day 2018 in Tokyo came back to me in a dream. I describe what I am able to detect from Paris, whose inhabitants are confined and watched, day and night. At the same time, impressions of 2018 in Tokyo come back, impressions of the fiftieth anniversary of Labour Day 1968, from the march to Gotokuji temple, up to an unforgettable meeting, a stroke of luck.