Paysages - Fos sur Mer Série-Collection : Paysages

Jean-Loïc Portron
1993 - 26 min - Betacam SP - Couleur - France

Fos-sur-Mer is the coming together of a site and an idea. This small village, hidden away near the mouth of the Rhône River, in 1965 became the centre of one of the largest building sites in the world. The port ant the associated industrial zone, controlled by the Marseille Port Authority, have now become part of the second largest commercial port complex in Europe.
The film depicts the confrontation between the traditional landscape of the Camargue and a gigantic industrial developpment project, now facing difficulties because of economic recession. The better the understanding of the landsacape, the clearer it becomes that the signs of prosperity are now intermingled with those of recession.