Bertille Bak’s work mainly focuses on contemporary communities, habitat, people’s participation and involvement in their cultural and social area, and in their own environment. Her fictional and ethnographic documentaries reveal an infiltration; people play their own roles in their current situations. Mixed social phenomena, folklore, and individual utopias comprise a crazy machine. Her work can be militant, focusing on injustices suffered by residents in mining towns of Northern France, trying to organize the last revolt of this mining territory, or trying to export the fate of inhabitants of a district of Bangkok. Far from social observation, it is much more to negotiate reality through the video camera, and to recount the last possible escapement and replay protective practices of real communities. In that way, even if incongruities are abound, it can be called an ethnographic test, a desire to raise a second memory. This is also the case for her archive of a mining town before its imminent destruction.