Vers Nancy + L'Intrus (The Intruder)

Vers Nancy, Claire Denis, Germany, Great Britain, 2001, 10'
Conversation in a train carriage between the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and a young migrant that deals with topics such as intruders, that which is foreign, visibility, integration, fear and that which is different. The piece is part of the collective film entitled Ten Minutes Older.

L'Intrus (The Intruder), Claire Denis, France, 2003, 35mm, 129'
Louis is a Frenchman close to sixty who lives in a cabin in the middle of the snow-covered forests of the border with Switzerland. He is a self-sufficient man, isolated from his family, stoic and dry. But, one day, he is diagnosed with a serious heart condition that leads to a heart transplant. That is when everything changes, as if a new heart was also an opportunity to begin again from the beginning and be someone else (an intruder inside oneself?). That is when Louis starts a geographic and life journey –from South Korea to Tahiti– in search of his past and his future.

This piece is based on the autobiographical essay by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy in which he ponders on the idea of an intruder from the time of his heart transplant.