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Laurent Salgues
Rêves de poussière is a motionless wandering, the personal voyage of a character who, having set out to lose himself, ends up finding himself instead. A simple story of self renouncement. The characters are castaways marooned in a goldmine where everything seems possible but nothing takes place. Happiness is too far, inaccessible. Each one of them carries a heavy burden: a dark past, a child to raise or a sack full of rocks. They echo the main character Mocktar Dicko, who arrives with his suitcase, but is carrying the burden of the sense of guilt for his daughter’s death.
Essakane is a makeshift gold mine in the northernmost part of Burkina Faso. It represents the perimeter in which the film is set. This space anchors the story. In it reigns a contradictory atmosphere, a mixture of hope and desperation.
"Sahel" is a word of Arabic origins which means "shore". On this shore Essakane seemed to me like a port. A port town from which people dream in vain of leaving towards happiness. The characters gaze at the desert as if they were looking at the sea...They live following their own rhythm, with a predilection for suspended time, for those moments of calm during which anything can still happen.
In a way, cinematographic style is defined as much by what is shown as by what is not shown. In Rêves de poussière I privileged a clean form, without sophisticated shots or camera movements, simplifying the actors' gestures, the distribution glances and the collocation of pauses in the dialogue. The work on colour was very important, but it is from its rarefaction that meaning emerges. The same can be said for sound and music. You must face the void in order to express the inner world of the characters: trapped in a space with no end, surrounded by wind and dust, prisoners of themselves. Only the faraway horizon shows an occasional mirage, an impossible dream.
Laurent Salgues
Laurent Salgues was born in France in 1967. He studied at the École Supérieure d’Audiovisuel (ESAV) in Tolosa, and later continued with a scriptwriting course at the University of Paris and at the University of California (UCLA). Between 1992 and 1996, he directed three short movies. He has been writing for television and cinema since 2003. Rêves de poussière is his first feature film.
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