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Projection : Les inoubliables

Projection
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Saturday 20 September
19.00u - 20.00u

Price: Gratuit - Gratis - Free Language: VOstFR Location: Scene

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In this film, directed by Lucile Bertrand in 2024, thirteen women interpret in their own languages the texts of twenty-five poetesses from different continents and eras, who never knew each other and yet share similar concerns.

Constructed in eight scenes, which are as many chapters, the script is built solely on these poems, which respond to each other, producing a succession of conversations about the constraints imposed on women, about wars and struggles, but also about writing and the boundaries in language, about relationships with others and the place to occupy in the world.

There is no plot to speak of, although the sequence of conversations in poetic form eventually builds up a long, open narrative, as open as poetry can be, which produces "images without images".

The scenes take place mainly in abstract spaces, leaving plenty of room for listening to the languages and reading the subtitles - because subtitling restores the meaning of this multilingual conversation and allows us to hear the musicality and rhythm specific to each language, so essential in poetic writing.

Screenplay and direction: Lucile Bertrand
Assistant director: Zoé Brichau
Director of photography and color grading: Marie Merlant
Sound recordist: Liza Thiennot
Film editing: Léole Poubelle
Sound editing and mixing: Marc Doutrepont

The performers are from diverse backgrounds: Janet Avanesian (Armenian-Iranian), Natalia Blanch (Argentinian), Veronica de Giovanelli (Italian), Sheury dos Santos Vieira (Brazilian), Hala El-Mohor (Palestinian), Natalia Kolyagina (Russian), Violaine Molitor (Belgian), Anne-Marie Ndenzako (Burundian), Olga Pugach (Ukrainian), Anne Schiltz (Luxembourgish), Mariko Sho (Japanese), Anna Stüler (German and English), Tatiana Wolska (Polish).

Poems by Chika Sagawa (Japanese), Nella Nobili (Italian), Forough Farrokhzâd (Iranian), Véronique Wautier (Belgian), Nadine Cail (French), Alfonsina Storni (Argentinian), Hélène Cadou (French), Emily Dickinson (American), May Ayim (German-Ghanaian), Saniya Saleh (Syrian), Marie-Louise Sibazuri (Burundian), Esther Nirina (Malagasy, in French), Anna Akhmatova (Russian), Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (Romanian, in German), Wisława Szymborska (Polish), Zuzanna Ginczanka (Ukrainian, in Polish), Victoria Amelina (Ukrainian), Fadwa Tuqan (Palestinian), Anise Koltz (Luxembourgish, in French), Rose Ausländer (German), Noémia de Souza (Mozambican), Nāzik al-Malā'ika (Iraqi), Ingeborg Bachmann (Austrian), Maria Gabriela Llansol (Portuguese), Adrienne Rich (American).

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Lucile Bertrand

Lucile Bertrand

Born in 1960 in France, Lucile Bertrand lives and works between Paris, France, and Brussels, Belgium, since 2001, after having lived for six years in New York. She exhibits regularly in Europe, the US and Asia. Her work focuses on issues related to the violence of wars and their consequences, migration and inequality in border access, as well as the exploitation of the planet and all living beings. Her creations are characterized by pure lines and an economy of means that nonetheless conceal considerable semantic depth. From everyday tragedies to large-scale catastrophes, her visual metaphors bring forward a subtle and nuanced picture of political and human crises. Lucile Bertrand claims to work slowly. She likes to spend long periods of time in her studio to mature her research, which is often nourished by literature, sociology and philosophy, as much as she likes to work in situ from the history of places or with people who share their life stories with her — which also requires time and a personal commitment. Between cartographies and landscapes, her drawings are also portraits in depth: they restore the stories of singular people through which the artist approaches vast and pluralistic issues. Her drawings, as well as some of her work on photographs, imply a reading in the truest sense of the term as many of them contain some text, resulting from her research of her encounters. However, she strives to keep only what is sufficient to describe a situation or to question its meaning. Factual and devoid of adjectives, the text keeps pathos at bay. If there is emotion, it is in what will emerge from the reading of the text and its understanding. The artist often proceeds by thematic series and, in spite of the recurrence of her concerns, her work takes various forms — works on paper, sculptures, videos, large-scale site-specific installations, sound installations — and she uses a large range of techniques.