Cinque Terre

For Easter, I went to the most romantic place ever, The Five Lands, a national park that figures in the Unesco World Heritage Site.
A jewel located on the coast of the Italian Riviera where five little villages: Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riommagiore hoisted on rocks face the calm waves of the Mediterranean sea. Red ocher terraces are built up to the cliffs and overlook the immensity of the skyline. It took us 5 hours to connect the different villages as cars cannot reach them from the outside.
Last october, Vernazza was severely affected by torrential rains and the village is still devastated. It was swallowed by a gigantic landslide and all the mud rests at the bottom of the village just below the church. What a nice weekend out of time !

The Five Lands

A photo novel I just made where I mixed images of Chicago, Cinque Terre, Paris, London and Britanny.  A fictional story of a woman marked by a frozen sun on a music by Philip Glass "Metamorphosis".

Electrical Birds

I made this video at 6 a.m when leaving our hotel to visit the Cinque Terre. A hawk scared all the birds and it was like they were dancing around electric cables and I thought I would take the risk of being shit on just to have a memory of it. 

The music "Phone Call"is by Jon Brion.

Blue Velvet

For Easter I've been carried away to the Cinque Terre (Five Lands) in Italy. Before posting on it I would like to stop on this random girl I met in front of La Spezia train station and that deserves a place somewhere on the internet.
I love everything about her : the carefully polished nails, the blue velvet glasses matching the blue dress with hearts, the golden african necklace with giraffe and this amazing suitcase !
If I were the painter Ingres strolling in the streets of Firenze few centuries ago I would have chosen her to be my muse.