Mourning in Savannah

A taste for lands far from Metropolitan France marks Jean Rolin's writing, a taste he indulges in Savannah (2015), an account of a trip he took to that American city in remembrance of a previous visit in the company of his friend, the photographer Kate Barry. An elegiac tone echoes throughout the book, for between those two trips, Kate Barry died. When Rolin charts his new itinerary, the films that Kate took during their first trip provide Rolin with a map that he follows very closely in this second visit, as he engages in the work of mourning.