Screenings
August 25 20:30
DEBATOUN GUESTHOUSE
La Base
France, 2023, 72’
in French w/Arm./Eng.subtitles
Director: Vadim Dumesh
Producer: Quentin Laurent
Cinematographers: Santiago Bonilla, Vadim Dumesh, Ahmed Mguiada, Jean-Jacques Papon, Kham Vong
Editor: Clara Chapus
Sound: Vadim Dumesh, Nicolas Verhaeghe, Martin Delzescaux
Production Company: Les Films de l’oeil sauvage
With the cameras of their smartphones, Parisian taxi drivers chronicle the Base Arrière Taxi, a gigantic isolated transit hub on the outskirts of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport. Here, more and more aging drivers, immigrants from all corners of the world, spend long hours waiting to be dispatched to the terminals. Here they find refuge from fatigue and the fierce competition from the metropolis. Here, suspended in space and time, they foster community life to escape the decline of their trade and the fast-changing world.
Vadim Dumesh
Vadim Dumesh is a director and artist-researcher based in Paris. Originally from Latvia, he explores questions of mobility, belonging, and the human condition in larger economic and political structures.
Filmography
Dirty Business (2015), La Base (2023).