Les Halles is Europe’s biggest metro station/shopping center complex in Paris. The metro station’s central traffic interchange has been nicknamed ‘The Flipper’. The pinball metaphor aptly depicts the uncertain, violent character of the liberal world: stay in the game as long as possible, follow the rules, and be ready to be hurled out at any moment. The people coming face to face at Les Halles are caught between endlessly judgmental gazes, social conflicts and history, right at the center of the city of the image. The work depicts people who haven’t really a place to go, staying, waiting idle in Les Halles. The horizon, poetic possibility of escape, is to be reached somewhere beyond the visible world.

Filmed just before the area is to be rebuilt, in collaboration with Parisians of various ages and with young film students from the suburb of Aubervilliers.