Asking ourselves what makes a city, trying to understand its silent rules, its habits, its imperfections, its difficulties, and its unique way to answer the endless question: Where do we go?Īimless navigation without a compass, without a map, in the territory of the city, seeking for snatches of daily life, gestures, places, scenes that make a city what it is. To be on the lookout, in a continuous wonder towards the imagination and creativity men have managed to develop to find a way to live together.

Listening to its rumble, the sound of its depths. Depicting a city in its present, in the simplicity of its daily life. Walking in unknown cities to collect impressions, to catch a vibration, to gather situations and things seen at the angle of a street, on a crossroad, from the top of a building. Somewhere between visual anthropology and observational cinema, these films put urban man under the microscope and encourage us to take a closer look at individual and collective behaviour, interpersonal dynamics, social tensions, and the economic and political forces that play out every day on the grand stage of the city streets.

Taking the form of a free-wheeling journey around the world (10 films, 10 cities, 10 hours of films), the project invites us to observe in detail the multiple forms and complex interactions that exist every day between people and their urban environments. After the trying constraints of lockdown and social distancing that brutally reduced urban space to its strict minimum, making it into a place where isolated individuals merely cohabit, Homo Urbanus is a cinematic odyssey offering a vibrant tribute to what we have been most cruelly deprived of: namely, public space.

Instal The Unknown City