Extensions
The practice of the Karyatides extends to other plastic and object related arts.
Starting with the films produced by Karine Birgé, including Bon Voyage, her latest multiple award-winning documentary.
At the end of this page you will find, against all expectations, an exhibition at which one stops, a chance encounter during a stroll, for a few moments of amused contemplation, in the shows’ antechamber
BON VOYAGE
She was 102 years old. It was the end of the summer in 2018. My grandmother had chosen to leave France to come and die in Belgium. Choosing a ‘gentle and easy’ death – euthanasia in Greek. I go back over what preceded her short-lived exile and my memories of this difficult crossing. Building on the sound imprints I had retained from it, I call up a little theatre of dolls and objects, bring together my family, my friends, Doctor Frankenstein and Chantal Goya, and reconstruct a world around my grandmother, departed into a strange quietude.
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Fipadoc 2024 - PRIX DES JEUNES EUROPÉENS
Parnu Film Festival (Estonie) 2004 - MENTION SPÉCIALE DU JURY
Prix commun SACD SCAM Belgique 2024
Étoiles de la Scam 2024
Festival du cinéma documentaire Traces de vies (France) - GRAND PRIX DU JURY
Brussels Art Film Festival · BAFF (Belgique) – COUP DE CŒUR DU JURY JEUNE
Pré-sélectionné au Magritte du meilleur documentaire
A deeply moving and light “Bon Voyage” filmed in object theatre form.
TTT « A powerful and beautiful work, from which one leaves dazzled as much as reeling »
(…) euthanasia also remains a delicate subject for cinema concerning the means of addressing and representing it. With a great deal of candour, Karine Birgé finds a very moving response, enhanced by her formal inventiveness and her musical choices which sweep the audience along in a poignant theatrical dance.
With: Luc Sauveur, Jacques Birgé
Stage directing: Karine Birgé
Dramaturgy: Robin Birgé
Images and lighting: Pierre Choqueux
Additional images: Tom Gineyts, Karine Birgé
Sound: Karine Birgé, Bruno Schweisguth, Quentin Van Kerckove
Sound design: Bruno Schweisguth, Gil Mortio, Guillaume Istace
Editing: Rudi Maerten, Gil Mortio
Mixing: Aline Gavroy
Calibration: Lucien Keller
Special effects and handicrafts: Antoine Blanquart, Claire Farah, Gil Mortio, Dimitri Joukovsky, Isabelle Airaud, Eugénie Obolensky
A Centre Vidéo de Bruxelles– CVB- Cyril Bibas production
Centre de l’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles – CBA (Javier Packer-Comyn), VOO and Be tv (Philippe Logie), TAKE FIVE (Gregory Zalcman & Alon Knoll), LES KARYATIDES
With the collaboration of the Atelier Graphoui.
With the aid of the Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
With the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government.
This film received the support of the SCAM’s Brouillon d’un rêve and the La Culture avec la Copie Privée association.
Exposition
Besides its performances, the company offers an exhibition of selected objects, showcased by Claire Farah, a scenographer. A number of works have been created by Antoine Blanquart: handmade embroidery, posters, sequined collages, doctored photographs.
It also includes dioramas, still lifes, models, etc,
Building from the specific world of each performance, the exhibition takes in the shows’ rejects, scatterbrained ideas and parallel reveries.
We move in closer to see Emma Bovary weeping in the shower because she has been well and truly ditched; or a pastoral painting in cross stitch, from which emerges a row of Rabelaisian characters, inspired by Bosch; or a bevy of Carmencitas seeming like an army ready to tear into battle; we get to Andersen just after the little girl’s death from hypothermia; nothing remains but a small pile of burnt matches, the firefighters have carted off the body…rmie, il ne reste qu’un petit tas d’allumettes brûlées, les pompiers ont embarqué le corps…
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