Leo Longo: Everyone here has a difficult dream to fulfill.
Do you know those impossible dreams that no one believes in?
Only those who dream know that it is possible.
Diana and I three years ago had one of those impossible dreams,
who was to be the first television crew
to go around the world to make 80 video clips.
Except we did not have any money.
I did not have the money to hire a team,
I had no money to rent equipment, I had nothing.
We even tried to go after some sponsor,
but obviously nobody believed in our dream,
and this was the great stone on which we stumbled in the middle of the road.
Diana Boccara: But it was not only on our way that a stone appeared.
In 1879, in another day of work,
the French postman Ferdinand Cheval was walking down the road.
A stone right in the middle of his path knocked him down –
literally, this time.
This stone could have been a problem in your day,
but in fact she gave him an idea,
or rather, an ideal:
gather the stones he found along the way
and build a castle right in the middle of your backyard.
But to build this castle he wanted,
it would take thousands of stones
and a few decades of work.
LL: But what if we had looked at that stone where we stumbled
not as a problem or an impediment to fulfill our dream,
but we had looked at it as an opportunity,
exactly as the postman did?
“So let’s do a project with the help of people from all over the world?
If we do not have the money to hire people to work for us,
Let’s call people to work with us,
And who knows, these people could not be those little pebbles.
who were going to build our castle. “
That’s exactly what we did
and so we created this project that we are very proud of,
totally collaborative, called “Around the World in 80 Video Clips”,
a network of people making the impossible possible.
It even took us to film one of these clips in that place,
which is now well known to you,
the palace of French stones.
DB: Exactly,
and it was at the Ideal Palace that our history intersected with that of the postman.
For 18 months, we gathered people who had something that we needed
and that they wanted something that we had to offer,
the exchange between hundreds of people, one different from the other,
as well as the stones of the postman.
The postman saw value in something
which initially had no value, stones,
and turned these stones into a valuable object, a palace,
the one you see here.
Without these stones, the postman would not have built
which today is considered one of the greatest works of “naïf” architecture.
Without the more than a thousand people, we would not have realized our dream
and the greatest project of our lives.
LL: But if we look at these two stories,
What do they teach us?
First, we are always busy.
and dedicated to realizing our dreams,
and it’s really amazing when we can.
Now, these two stories show something else
that, if an agent does not stop to pay attention, we do not see:
that, without stones, there is no castle.
Do not we sometimes forget that?
Do not we forget that we can be
the missing stone for someone’s castle?
And I think that’s our message here,
that’s what we learned in those years.
For more dreams to come true,
someone, sure, needs exactly what you have to offer.
LL: Thank you. DB: Thank you.
(Applause) (Live)
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