The Terminal: Marseille beyond the headlines

A documentary film by Claire Lubell. The Terminal explores the line of a future tram extension into Marseille’s marginalized Quartiers Nord. Masquerading as a newspaper, the project is a critical cartography which merges current events, cliche reputations, expert interviews and personal experience to construct a territory of the possible realities and fictions of an arbitrary day in Marseille. Set in 2022, the newspaper collapses past and future into a synthetic present, subverting the conception of an urban project as the resolution of a linear problem. The Berlage Thesis Documentaries 2016. Thesis advisors: Thomas Weaver, Ido Avissar. Film expert and advisor: Mauricio Freyre.