Vieux Pays, OLD TOWN

The movie is currently in production.

One evening, on the island of Kalymnos, a man dives into the sea to fish. This time, he will not return. Carried away by the water, he washes ashore here, in the heart of a foreign city. They say he still wanders, searching these streets for traces of his lost homeland. Confronted with a city that is not his own, he questions the imprints of the past — the echoes of a world that no longer exists. The film moves between presence and absence, where images become quiet witnesses to what remains, what haunts, and what fades away.

Esther Liger is a multidisciplinary artist working between still and moving images. Her work explores the links between photography, memory, and territory. She studied at the Fine Arts School in Brest and later at the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles. Her artistic approach is rooted in a reflection on traces, abandoned spaces, and changing landscapes. Inspired by the raw beauty of Brittany—its ruins and silences—she explores the passage of time, invisible marks, and memories of the past. Rather than representing the world directly, she seeks to reveal what is hidden or hard to grasp: the intangible, the unseen.

School: National School of Photography in Arles