Light, like life, can be delicate, fragile, unique, volatile, light.
But of unbearable lightness, in fact.
This thought seemed to me enough to compose this visual poem,
In reaction to the recent Paris attacks, which have beaten its youth.
It is like an answer which says “let me dream reality”, another reality,
As a hymn to the non banality of the act of living and to love.
PS: Those photos have been made in Pisa, Brussels, Paris, Lisbon, Berlin, Riga, Tallinn,
Varsovie, Sopot and Szczecin.
and are parts of a series in permanent evolution…
Gerald Assouline got eductated in social sciences, with a PhD at the University of Grenoble (1983). He is a photogra^her and ocumentary film maker. After having worked and travelled in many Latin American countries, he discovers Europe in its diversity. He is attracted by Eastern European borderlands and develops a work on harbours, Esperar, as in between places : from Tangier to Odessa, from Lisbon , Marseille to Istanbul, shown in Geneva and Odessa. With the NGO Paroles par l’Image, he conceives and conducts visual creative workshops with vulnerable people.
Awards - Let me dream : Finalist at the Lisbon Film Rendez-vous, 2020
- Let me dream : Official selection, Semi-finalist. Indie Visions Film Festival – New York, 2019
- Mention spéciale pour Let me dream, au UK Seasonal Short film Festival, Automne 2019
- Honorable mention, PX3, Paris, 2016
- Honorary Award of Merit for 13:04, at Lucerne International Film Festival, Oct. 2012
- Award for Night Zigzags at Photofilm Festival, Fotoku, Tallinn, Estonia, Oct. 2011
- European Culture Foundation (Amsterdam): Stepbeyond award, 2009and 2007
