DIVIDED CITY
THE KOURTAJME COLLECTIVE DENY A CITY THEY BARELY KNOW.
The picturesque Paris of beauty and high culture is a foreign city to Kourtrajmé. They rarely see it, and they won’t show it. But they are Parisians. Yes, Parisians, driven by the city as they know it, a city of decay, desolation and neglect, but a city of people the authorities would rather forget.
The 28 Millimetre project with JR (who forms part of the Kourtrajmé collective) juxtaposes the image of these people with the spaces they never frequent, where they can’t be ignored, but it probably didn’t take long for the police to show up and wipe the walls clean, sweeping away all evidence of a temporary existence. Check out the film below, as well as their guerilla footage of the Parisian riots, a view from the other side.
