Stochastics— un film de David Kidman /

Métaphore d’un déplacement spatio-temporel dans un monde qui avance à la fois vers la fragmentation et la mondialisation.

When you are a child, you learn how to walk. You don’t necessarily analyse your movements at the time, even though it is a painful learning curve. For a lot of boys, as well as a small majority of girls in this world, there will be a second period of apprenticeship as a professional walker; military service, when you must forget to walk and learn to march. This film is partly about the way in which I learn to walk, the way in which cinema learned to walk and partly how to aim at the right targets.

In the great capitals of the world, there is almost always a place destined for military display, either in the form of a parade or in a monument used as a pretext for reifying former glories. These places are, for the rest of the year, invested by tourists, who wander from one end to the other, taking photographs, looking up and looking around, talking and generally hanging around. Even so, at least once a year, these mis-programmed wanderings are put aside in favour of a proof of current or historical military might through organised marching.