5-7 Rue Corbeau
Director Thomas Pendzel
Countries France
Duration 59 min
Synopsis
From the outside it was a normal building. 168 one room dwellings, inhabited by newly arrived immigrants to Paris. Mid-neneteenth century tenants were rural French, followed by Belgians, Italians, Eastern European Jews, Spaniards, Portuguese, repatriates, North Africans, Senegalese and finally Malians. By 1998, the building had become the largest slum house in Paris. Its 350 occupants blocked the street four months with a protesting camp, the rundown tenement was bought and torn down by city authorities. How to capture a demolished building on film? What mark does it leave?
From the outside it was a normal building. 168 one room dwellings, inhabited by newly arrived immigrants to Paris. Mid-neneteenth century tenants were rural French, followed by Belgians, Italians, Eastern European Jews, Spaniards, Portuguese, repatriates, North Africans, Senegalese and finally Malians. By 1998, the building had become the largest slum house in Paris. Its 350 occupants blocked the street four months with a protesting camp, the rundown tenement was bought and torn down by city authorities. How to capture a demolished building on film? What mark does it leave?