Marie Voignier

Marie Voignier plunges viewers into the story of a retired safari guide who is commenting about his guestbook in which his clients pose next to their trophies. Filmed as a static shot, he is seen cheerfully recounting the hunting excursions organized in Africa for wealthy Europeans in the 1970s and 1980s. His amusing and somewhat exaggerated remarks contrast with the cruelty of the images showing an accumulation of elephant tusks and remains of wild animals. The film Les Immobiles, presented in the Vevey History Museum, cynically evoked the prevalent stereotypes in the Westerners’ discourse, and their enduring nostalgia for colonial Africa.