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
In the press
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.
Distribution
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.
