“The silent world is our only homeland. This short phrase may be considered to be the motto of the complete works of Francis Ponge. I nourished myself on it whilst doing the project which I completed on this film. It is a film without actors which does not resemble any documentary, and which should have been made a long time ago. However, there are a lot of people behind the camera, you, for example. The spirit of Méditerranée, one of my films which is now quite old, may have hovered over certain distributions. The texts of Francis Ponge play an almost separate score on the film, like the music of Antoine Duhamel; I consider this film to be ‘natural’, and it would upset me if it was placed in a category. I do not think that it has any true predecessor, and it makes no sense for it to have a successor. I simply think that I have not distorted the work of Francis Ponge, for whom I have an admiration that I would not know how to tarnish.” (JDP)
