Louidgi Beltrame’s work is based on documenting modes of human organisation throughout the history of the 20th century. He travels to sites defined by a paradigmatic relation to modernity: Hiroshima, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Chandigarh, Tchernobyl or the mining colony of Gunkanjima, over the sea off Nagasaki. His films - based on the recording of reality and the constitution of an archive - appeal to fiction as a possible way to consider History.

es Dormeurs
2006
Video, 13 mn 10
Twelve young peoples from Hiroshima are invited to sleep in the vaults of the Former Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch. One of the rare building to resist to the deflagration of the atomic bomb. In this underground space, silent as an isolation box, their individuals dreams are mixing together into a collective dream which is displacing the symbolism of the building.

Hiroshima, space of vanishing, of desintegration is linked to an island which is also loaded with invisible. Yakushima, in southern Japan. It shades in its deep forests some millenials cedars which are sanctuaries for the nature spirits. A construction looks down upon the ocean. It’s a military hospital built by the americans occupiers which remains unused by missing of staff. Is it the sleepers who are dreaming or are they being dreamed themselfs by this rough concrete structure wich is waiting under the tropical rain?