2014 - USA 1968 deux enfants

In the summer of 1968, two children, aged 13 and 15, traveled across the United States on their own. When they couldn’t find anyone to put them up, they traveled at night using a Greyhound bus pass. From Niagara Falls to the Mexican border, from the Pacific Ocean to New Orleans, they had some incredible encounters. Hosted by a pathologist in El Paso, an architect couple in Beverly Hills, hippies and the Black Panthers’ doctor in San Francisco, fascists in Connecticut, or the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, families welcomed them on a journey of self-discovery during which the author discovered his passion for music after participating in the May events in Paris two months earlier.
The diary of this journey looks back to the past that made this incredible adventure possible, as well as to the future it will inspire. An era full of promise takes shape before the backlash buries the dreams of this youth who thought they could reinvent the world. The author, who is also a composer and filmmaker, offers us a unique experience by drawing inspiration from photographs taken during his journey and by painting a critical picture of the world’s evolution through 12 short films woven into the narrative, as well as 75 minutes of original music and sound effects that accompany the reading. As with all Inéditeurs publications, the cover of this groundbreaking book is an interactive work: the light show evokes the lysergic experiences of returning to France and the attempt to represent them today (cinemato)graphically in order to recapture the emotions of the psychedelic projections that flooded pop music concerts—the inaugural crucible of an artist’s life.