Les Yeux de la nuit
Jean-Luc Mage
1996 - 52 min - Vidéo - Couleur - France

Here, in Guyana, in the Amazonian forest, the essential is invisible. Invisible, in fact, is the intense and obstrusive life hidden at the top, in the canopée. Invisible and disturbing is the mystery which run slowly among the age-old trees.
To Claire Condominas Bartoli, privated of the elementary sense of viewing, the lights are sounds, the forms are caresses. They are her eyes, the eyes of night. Michel Huet, the naturalist informed who guide her in the sticky depths of the vegetal stomach, hand down her the serene trust necessary to this initiatory exploration. So, the absolute black lights up with a thousand twinklings which generate pictures. She learns the forest, she sees the forest. The invisible fills her heart of all his illuminated wealth.