Between 2005 and 2008, three successive production companies attempted to bring the "Brasilia. Travel to Dawn" project to fruition with French and foreign channels (France 5, the BBC, France 2, Arte). In 2005, Arte declined the offer, pretexting its own 2000 production of Marc-Henri Wajnberg's and Rogier van Eck's film "Oscar Niemeyer, an architect committed to his century". My then producer pointed out that our project did not relate to Niemeyer's whole career and life as Wajnberg’s and van Eck's movie did, but rather focused on the genesis, the construction and then the future of Brasilia, with Niemeyer's supporting testimony but also those of all the other protagonists of the "Brasilia" epic. Consequently, our project had clearly nothing to do with Wajnberg /van Eck's film, neither in its intentions, nor in its script and content, and certainly not in the style and looks that I intended to give my film. Despite these clarifications, Arte did not follow up.

In 2008, a new production company approached Arte again. For the purpose of clarification with regard to her privileged contacts at Arte, this producer requested that in addition to the short film “Prologue”, I must write the complete project's note of intent, as well as the entire film's detailed synopsis (eg the descriptions of each sequence, and all their dialogues), this in order to be presented to the channel. Which I did. But in spite of this new effort, Arte stuck to its position.

Ultimately, no one succeeded in producing "Brasilia. Journey to Dawn". What remains of this adventure is a corpus of more than three hours of filmed interview of Oscar Niemeyer, never used and broadcasted- and which I keep like the most precious of treasures.
And this small “Prologue” (which in spite of all its imperfections has at least the virtue of existing), as it gives an idea of the film I had in mind by then in 2004, in terms of artistic spirit, music, tone of narration and style.