Marc Khanne
2005 - 26 min - DV Cam - Couleur - France
Months after the "Prestige" shipwreck, a team of 30 volunteers left Toulouse to clean up the coast in Galicia.
All day long, the camera followed their painstakingly patient and seemingly derisory gestures, picking up on the varying intensity of each day, revealing how a growing fraternity amongst them came to constitute a form a resistance against such a disaster. Our civilisation devastates the planet on a big scale that some attempt to repair the damages with a spatula.