Through the gps coordinates, the title of the film identifies
precisely but abstractly a location in Africa.
As we follow two men
who roam this location, we discover a site that in all appearances
would seem to be an archeological ruin. But the images that follow
contradict the first impression. This site is the fruit of the work of two
workers who sculpted thousands of bricks directly in the rock. It is a
negative cityscape. For Meessen, this residual space is the inverted
image of a planned city. But not only. At first sight, it is a document on the
irregular practice of urban planning in Africa. But through its
construction and the addition of fictitious details, it is also a
fictional work playing with documentary codes and ghost images. The extralegal use of the nationalized domain produces projection
space for a multilayered narrative.
The two workers play the first roles. At the same time they act like moving projections. The names they are wearing on their T-shirts recall fictional literary characters, clues that indicate the possibility of other parallel readings.