a film Benoît Labourdette
Brahim's backpack
Brahim kept his backpack.
Yet to race he absolutely wanted to win,
he won, moreover,
it would have been better for him if he had offloaded his backpack.
In Brahim's backpack, there are important things,
he does not want to part at all.
In Brahim's backpack, there is a gift,
Luna had given him, two months earlier.
Brahim had fallen madly in love with Luna, two years earlier.
And...
and...
and.
For the break, Luna offered a pretty statuette to Brahim.
A wooden statue of Burkina Faso.
She no longer loved Brahim.
When she thinks about it, she said she loved him.
But it's over.
For two months, Brahim permanently bring this little statuette on his back.
For him, it is a sign of the love of Luna.
This is the case, either.
That's what she wanted to offer him.
As a way out.
But Brahim needs the love of Luna.
It has not yet succeeded to mourn love.
So, using this statuette not to mourn.
In fact, when he walks...
when he feels the weight, the beat...
... friction, little noise...
... against other objects, of the statuette ...
... which is not brittle, he thinks of Luna.
He thinks about that lost love.
But he would not, been lost.
Brahim is someone who suffers.
Finally...
Brahim is someone hypersensitive as it is said.
Brahim is someone who will do great things in his life.
You can see it when you see him.
But there, at the moment, he is locked in his suffering.
Permanently, he thinks of her, without stop.
It never stops. Luna is still there.
Why has he agreed to participate in this race ?
For to forget a little Luna, he must lives very intense things.
There... for a while...
... during the few seconds of this rat race...
... he has not thought of her.
He was him, just him.
Deep in his energy.
Taken in his desire to go as fast as possible.
This few seconds race, is a moment of meditation for Brahim.
A moment when he his in contact only with the world.
Any more with his thoughts that make pain to him.
Just with the world.
With the gesture.
With the air.
With the movement.
With his body.
Unfortunately, as soon as he stopped running,
despite the joy of having won the race,
almost immediately, thoughts for Luna came back.
Movie, images, voice Benoît Labourdette
Filmed at "Rencontres Passeurs d'images 2015" (Kyrnéa international)
2016