Northern Range

“The film opens with the word ‘us’ in italics, for everyone to define for themselves. The sole mission of Northern Range, like any political film, is to seek and invent this ‘us’. It’s firstly the portrait of an area, France’s north coast between Dunkirk and Calais, where Olivier Derousseau lives and works. It’s also a musical suite in five parts, a kind of minimalist blues composed in memory of time and people that have disappeared. And it’s a melancholy meditation on the stuff of days, the flesh of the future, on erasure and the traces waiting and hoping to be saved” – Cyril Neirat