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Bonjour chez vous Tropical Islands

Be seeing you
Marie Voignier
2008 France
© Marie Voignier
© Marie Voignier

« Be seeing you » is a film project whose starting point is a quite particular place : « Tropical Islands ». Built in the eastern German countryside on a former German then soviet military base, this gigantic dome (the world’s largest self-supporting hall) presently houses a tropical theme park. The ambient temperature is 25 °C and the water in the tropical sea is a pleasantly warm 30° C surrounded by an indoor rainforest. « Bring the Tropics home » was the founding idea of the investors, bring them to the place where you’d least expect them, Germany. The film, like an essay or a still travelogue, explores strikingly contrasted aspects of the situation : the landscape, the inhabitants and their history outside the dome confronted to the scenery, the actors and representation of the exotic inside.

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