Wagons libres
By and featuring
Sandra Iché
Realised by
Gael Chapuis, Mary Chebbah, Ali Cherri, Virginie Colemyn, Sylvie Garot, Renaud Golo, Sandra Iché, Lenaïg Le Touze, Carol Mansour, Pascale Schaer, Vincent Weber
Interviews
Hanane Abboud, Omar Amiralay, Ahmad Beydoun, Melhem Chaoul, Claude Eddé, Antony Karam, Charif Majdalani, Ziad Majed, Alexandre Medawar, Jade Tabet, Fawwaz Traboulsi
Creation febuary 2012 in Parc de la Villette - Paris
In 2000, Sandra Iché wrote a story of the Orient-Express, a Beirut French-speaking magazine from the 1990s, created and run by historian and journalist Samir Kassir. Ten years later, she leads a new series of interviews with the former collaborators from the Orient-Express, as per a protocol designed for words not to be redundant with reality but to allow for fiction: the interview takes place in 2030, and from then, we remember today. Through this both retrospective and anticipatory approach, memories become a tool de reenact the present. In a spacialised and deconstructed form of the documentary approach (mixing sound and visual archives, working notes, voice-over and testimonies), Wagons libres makes the most of the theatrical space pour tie reality to fiction and question the fictionalisation of History.
Production Association Wagons libres
Coproductions Festival Temps d’image - Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Belgique) ;
Pact Zollverein (Allemagne) ; Parc de la Villette - Paris ; Les Subsistances - Lyon
Support from DRAC Rhône-Alpes dans le cadre de l’aide au projet