This film aims to be a playful and poetic object that turns ideas upside down, which is like setting them back the right way, in times when most believe we are walking on our heads. To put our heads "out inside" means to rethink the way our social and economic relationships function, and to question our beliefs on what is normal.
Media have long given up their role of whistle-blower, trussed up as they are by the publicity and political dictatorship.
A powerful medium, a politician, a union-man or a company can no longer say out loud that we should think about degrowth, that talking about unlimited growth for a planet with limited resources is an intellectual masquerade. They cannot say economic globalization is a huge waste of resources and a crime against humanity. They would be immediately ejected from the political game, from the system.
This media silence has the very serious consequence of vacuuming people, thinkers, actors, inventors of our future society from the debate: any possible legitimacy is taken away from them. Yet, they are millions around the world who are successfully experimenting with tomorrow' lifestyle. This film wants to make these practices visible, useable by all and for all today and tomorrow. Any form of resistance to our societal model is concealed, often repressed. But it is moving forward silently, like an inescapable tsunami.
I chose to focus mainly on issues of soil, because it is the concrete foundation to any society, and only through this can we begin a revolution, can we start founding our system anew.
By tackling this theme, we were able to touch upon social issues (world hunger, wealth distribution, employment, local and international trade, food sovereignty, economy, etc.) and ecological issues (the sterilization of arable land, chemical pollution, water management, biodiversity, global warming, etc.) and, more than anything, show the solutions that are available to remedy them!
With this film, I want to show to the landless workers of Brazil that their solutions are the same as those Pierre Rabhi designed in his fight against land and soul desertification in Ardèche and in Morocco, or those of the small Indian farmers against the major seed banks in preserving biodiversity with Kokopelli or Vendana Shiva.
In Ukraine with Mr. Antoniets, or at the Sainte-Marthe farm in Sologne with Philippe Desbrosses, I have heard the same discourse and seen identical solutions to mend ill soil and feed humanity properly.
We were made to believe that modern agriculture was the solution to feeding the world. It's a shameless lie. There have never been so many starving people, and there are more of them each day. Famine is knocking at the door, but we aren't seeing it yet, because truth is put under the bushel, because the dominant thought numbs our minds and puts our vigilance to sleep.
There is no link, no information yet, that encourages people in their actions, and shows them that they are not alone. But as a child's game suddenly becoming fashionable in every schoolyard of the country simultaneously through a mysterious thought transmission process, so the solutions to our worldwide crisis are spreading like powder, because it's the same illness everywhere, and humanity urgently needs to find cures.