:06:06
He told me about the Jetty on Fogo,
in the Cape Verde islands.
:06:09
How long have they been there waiting for the boat,
patient as pebbles but ready to jump?
:06:16
They are a people of wanderers,
of navigators, of world travelers.
:06:20
They fashioned themselves through cross-breeding here on these rocks
that the Portuguese used as a marshaling yard for their colonies.
:06:26
A people of nothing, a people of emptiness, a vertical people.
:06:30
Frankly, have you ever heard of anything stupider than to say to people
as they teach in film schools, not to look at the camera?
:06:51
He used to write to me: the Sahel is not only
what is shown of it when it is too late
:06:57
it's a land that drought seeps into like water into a leaking boat.
:07:01
The animals resurrected for the time of a carnival
in Bissau will be petrified again,
:07:06
as soon as a new attack
has changed the savannah into a desert.
:07:08
This is a state of survival that the rich countries have forgotten,
with one exception: UN Japan.
:07:17
My constant comings and goings are not a search for contrasts;
they are a journey to the two extreme poles of survival.