The Areotrain

A film by Outis Niekesa (52', 2007)

Synopsis

In the plains of Beauce stretches a concrete viaduct, twenty kilometers long; it is the experimental route of the aerotrain, a pharaonic project of the Glorious Thirties. An air cushion train which raced at 450 km / h. A dream. A monumental failure. Perched on pylons ten meters high, the route jumps from zone to zone - our industrial zones, our joint developement zones, leisure zones, shopping centers ... - until its brutal stop in the middle of the wheat fields. It is the trace of a failed dream, at the same time as a cut in the various French suburban sections. Along this concrete thread, landscapes and people offer their vision of the failure (or not) of this crazy project and their own aerotrains, their lost dreams ...