Le Trieux

Film on the Trieux river, from spring to the aber.
Collective exhibition Arte Botanica, Château de la Roche Jagu, Ploëzal (22), France.

First version of the film: 22 mn, sound, 4/3 format

The Trieux is the most important river in the Côtes d’Armor, the course of which is entirely Costarmorican. It has its source in central Brittany at Kerpert and flows into the English Channel, in the Bréhat archipelago.
The film on the Trieux is the result of an immersive journey of the river over around sixty kilometers from the source to Ploëzal, as well as meetings carried out in the Trieux watershed (Association “Les herbes vagabondes”, Ferme du Goazio) .

Made between January and May 2019, the film shows the evolution of the river: the gradual widening of its course, plant variations, the appearance of human development: roads, towns... as well as the gradual arrival of spring, perceptible in the vegetation.
On its banks, people collect wild medicinal plants. They are partially filmed in action (hands, legs...we don't see their faces). The snippets of conversation are barely understandable.
It is on the relationship and the gesture that the attention is paid, the human being integrated into a more important process, the river.

Second version (Ex situ - for internet)

In this version, only the river is visible. Some sequences from the first version and some others.