The Rainbow Warriors

About the project

The Rainbow Warriors are a small community of people coming from various walks of life and living together and built a village in the heart of the Cévennes Mountains. Their homes are monochrome in even the smallest details, with every colour of the spectrum represented. They dress from head to toe in a single colour to fully experience the hue for a time, and once the experience is fulfilled, they again change clothing for yet a different colour. They have no personal belongings, no money; they burn their identity card and diploma the day they join the community.

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Alain Della Negra et Kaori Kinoshita, Les guerriers de l’arc en ciel (the rainbow warriors), 2011 in progress

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Alain Della Negra et Kaori Kinoshita, Les guerriers de l’arc en ciel (the rainbow warriors), 2011 in progress

They offer their time to the surrounding farms and stores and live off the fruits and vegetables given to them in exchange for their services. The community is autonomous, establishing its own rules from day to day. The Rainbow Warriors explain their way of life as follows:

We had no alternative but to live our dreams. And so we accept responsibility for bringing about the changes we wish for in the world to come. At the center is colour, the Rainbow, the symbol of union and complementarity. We shake up everyday life in order to experiment with the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Alain Della Negra et Kaori Kinoshita proposed to delve into the everyday life of this community, throughout the four seasons of the year, with no interviews and most of the filming done by community members.

About the artist

Kaori Kinoshita was born in Tokyo in 1970 and Alain della Negra was born in France in 1975. Their films have been shown in many cinemas, festivals and exhibitions in France and elsewhere.