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India's billion eyes
I developed a passion for photography at an early age, after my father Marcel, a famous documentary filmmaker, gave me my first camera, a Kodak Instamatic.
This inherited passion has never left me, and I've made it my profession.
A lover of eclecticism, I spent twenty years filming Formula 1 on all the world's most beautiful circuits, as well as many motorcycle Grand Prix events and 4 Paris-Dakar rallies in the days when GPS didn't exist... I've also filmed for TV on major documentary series about life in medical emergencies, the police, veterinary surgeons and popular entertainment shows like "Danse avec les Stars".
But above all, my passion is travel documentaries. Solo and sometimes with my brother Cyril, I've produced numerous photo reports and films on some of the most spectacular places on the planet, covering the forests of Brazil, the deserts of Africa, from the Sahara to the marvellous Namibia, the Great Barrier Reef of Australia on which I dived camera in hand for 10 months, the underwater depths of the Red Sea, the marvellous lagoons of Polynesia, India through its billion eyes or the four seasons of France as seen from a hot-air balloon.
Film summary:
With a population exceeding one billion four hundred million souls, India is fascinating for some, disturbing for others, exuberant in its colors, overabundant in its population, disproportionate in its wealth, unbearable in its poverty, passionate in its beliefs.
While the Indian subcontinent is fast becoming an economic superpower, the vast majority of its inhabitants are still extremely attached to traditions and an age-old way of life. Lionel and Cyril Isy-Schwart's documentary invites us to discover this magnificent India, which often upsets our Western visions.
Right from the start of the film, culture shock is the order of the day, with a sequence on the Prayag Kumbh mela Hindu pilgrimage. A veritable anthill of gods, the Kumbh mela is the largest gathering of human beings on the planet, with over 100 million devotees from the 4 corners of the globe.
We'll then go to Dharavi, Mumbai's huge shantytown, where a whole section of the population is dedicated to recycling consumer goods.
A radical change of atmosphere in Kerala, between lush mountains dotted with tea plantations and the Arabian Sea, lined with rice paddies served by 1,500 kilometers of magnificent canals. Then we're off to the desert expanses of Rajasthan, land of the Maharajas, with its mythical cities and sumptuous palaces. To round off our wonderful journey, we'll head to Mathura, to celebrate the arrival of spring in an orgy of color, on the occasion of the extraordinary holi festival.
An unforgettable, breathtaking journey that sometimes makes you feel as if you've borrowed a time machine!
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