"The action, the set-a sort of huge Babylonian portal surrounded by sand-the idea of an ancient city in a desertlike South were already there. On the screen, while remaining in the symbolic domain, this becomes something like a story told by a man lost in the desert, who stumbles upon an ancestral city where a great festival is taking place, complete with powerfully symbolic dances. It is the festival of the hottest day of the year. A vast metaphor will develop, in this torrid realm, around the idea of fertility..." (J. Bouvier, R. Obadia). "Dancers and filmmaker set off, with a common purpose, to film in Morocco in the grottos said to be those of Hercules, among the badlands sculpted by wind and water...The camera acts as well, filming the the body in half-section...By way of lighting, Ruiz lights huge fires in the caverns...The participants in this epic poem of sand begin by cutting up the foreground settings that obstruct the scenic horizon of 'Behind-the-Wall,' so that, following the wishes of the director, a labyrinth opens up in the scenery and in the choreography itself" (Laurence Louppe, Libération). (Translated from the French by Shelley Diekman)