Five moments, marked by states of matter, reveal some marginal traces of human production and a few instances of animal condition. Five filmed locations, dominated by waste or degradation. Five sites, unsure if they succeed in forming a landscape, let alone creating a territory. Nonetheless, they are part of a geography, the Marseille region in France. Bringing them together is a way of organizing them, placing them between the Sistine Chapel, a garlic press, and the Ariane rocket, on Hegelian’s shelf of great accomplishments of the mind.