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TOKYO, 2008.
Video from the photo and video project LOST HIGHWAY by the French photographer Chantal Stoman.
French with English subtitles.

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LOST HIGHWAY

There is only one night, there is only one city, there is only one road.

Along the Highway, the night passes by. Insomniac and fragile.
Made invisible by the metal shell and the speed of my vehicle, I invite myself where I have not been invited.

Protected by the discretion of the night, I surprise in a flash moment people inside their home. I dine at their table, I watch their TV, I sleep in their bed. Suddenly, their intimacy, so rare and precious, is simply offered to me. As a silent invitation, I am with the Other.

I watch my intimate Anonymous. They are much more than the story that contains them. They are these millions of solitudes which form the heart of the cities.

In Tokyo or Cairo, in Sao Paulo or Hong Kong, Bombay or Kolkata, I begin a dialogue, in the heart of the night. As in a boxing ring, I get on the Highway to seize these samples of life.

These black and white photographs were taken on the fly, from the flyover that crosses the city.
In the backdrop of the unsuspecting night, suspended, a multitude of lighted windows shine like so many promises. They reveal tiny, fragmented worlds: simple or complicated, overflowing or solitary, this “je ne sais quoi” that I search for, all along the highways.

Lost Highway tells this tale shared by all big cities. Where borders no longer exist. Where families are of the same love, loneliness of the same muted violence, waiting of the same slowness: all are same sighs of a universal language.

There is only one night, there is only one city, there is only one road.


Chantal Stoman