Le Barbier de Tunis

Conceived as a traveller’s diary, the video was shot in March 2012, a year after the fall of Ben Ali. The Tunisians were exploring the exercice of democracy and freedom of expression so long confiscated by the past regimes. Benoît Eugène and Bernard Mulliez bring together a series of multi-facetted portraits : As the interviews unfold, the liberal doxa becomes apparent, prescribing competitivity by maintaining low wages for the workers and tax exemption for foreign investors. All the way through this highly hierarichal and urban landscape, our vision of the "Arab Revolution" becomes more complexe. The video checks the simplistic antagonism of a newsworthy political conflict of identity that opposes the Enlightment of modernity and Islamic obscurantism.