Gentrification meets ghost story in this hypnotic Guadeloupean elegy to disappearing lives.
Apartment blocks with no future are being torn down in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Malaury Eloi-Paisley follows those lost in the city through the empty streets. Their accounts form a valuable commodity, circulating in carefully developed relationships.
Cinematography
Crumbling concrete filmed like cathedral ruins—absolutely worshipful framing.
Direction
Eloi-Paisley treats absence as character; negative space never felt so loud.
Director
Malaury Eloi Paisley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pointe-à-Pitre's 'Grands Ensembles' mirror France's banlieue crisis, but Caribbean specificity—hurricane vulnerability, colonial debt—complicates simple narratives of urban failure.
Eloi-Paisley spent three years building trust; several subjects initially believed she was government surveillance due to her camera equipment.
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