"Valley of death", "Valley without man", "Empty quarter", "Place of ruins", "Land of death", are all names and nicknames attributed over the centuries to different desert areas of the world.
Evocative of hostility and danger, these names allow us to appreciate the impact on the collective imagination, beliefs and cultures, of these immense mysterious expanses.
However the word desert, in French, did not initially qualify the aridity and the absence of vegetation of a space, but rather its uninhabited character, and not cultivated by the Man. Thus, it characterized certain deep forests or steppes sheltering hermit monks who "went to the desert" to live there in meditation.
Our collection is rich with numerous sequences filmed in some of the most dangerous deserts in the world, spectacular landscapes in areas often inaccessible by the ground.