Dans un océan d’images

Digital technology and the Internet have had a profound effect on image-modes, and on the ways and the speed with which pictures are captured and distributed, and, as a reflection of this, on the way they’re received. Starting with these considerations, Helen Doyle followed and interviewed ten internationally famous contemporary artists and photographers (Alfredo Jaar, Letizia Battaglia, Nadia Benchallal, Philip Blenkinsop, Bertrand Carrière, Stanley Greene, Geert van Kesteren, Sera Phousera Ing, Lana Šlezia and Paolo Ventura), reflecting along with them on the significance and power of images. For these authors, committed in their work to call our attention to wars, and all the other suffering and miseries of the world, art and photography are accusatory instruments, also capable of sensitizing people towards dramatic frequently shocking human realities. With music by noted English composer Nigel Osborne, the documentary underlines the importance of experience and authorial pratice, reminding us that images are material to be treated responsably and carefully.