PARIS MAY 1st 2002

On April 21st of 2002, the far right candidate was qualified for the second round of the French Presidential Election.
On May 1st, the traditional union demonstration took another dimension, gathering close to 500.000 Parisians who went to the streets to express their shock and their refusal of the far right ideology. I was among them and took images with my first Super 8 camera ; the first images I ever shot.
20 years later, another Presidential Election has taken place and nobody seems to be shocked anymore that the far right might access power (not only in France but in many parts of the world). I needed to edit this footage to testify of this moment of collective resistance to the far right, as well as to acknowledge the defeat of this resistance.