Le radeau de la joie

A group of people play on a raft adrift to the notes of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. The subtext is a series of pieces of information about New Caledonia, taken from La notice à l’usage des futurs colons en Nouvelle-Calédonie (1930). The text dances across the screen to the rhythm of the young people’s impossible pirouettes on the raft.