The Rise and Fall of the TV Journalist / Nocturama

This short film chronicles a metamorphosis of mainstream media and political power throughout the last decades, by looking at the role of the television journalist. From the early 1950s to the fall of the Berlin Wall, much has changed. Rather than working to make sense of the complexity, journalism turned from moral principles to a simple reporting of experience, devoid of context. TV journalists now plead with the audience to send in photos and videos as a kind of so-called “democratised” media, but what actually functions as a vast echo-chamber of uncertainty and unaccountability.

On an ordinary morning in Paris, a number of adolescents from different districts, with different backgrounds and from various origins set out individually, yet somehow connected, and begin a strange dance through the labyrinth of the metro and the streets of the French capital. Conducted with precision, they seem to be following a plan. These young people will shake up the peaceful citizens of Paris unexpectedly. While various parts of the city go up in flames, the whole world watches what is happening as if it were a show.