La Nuit a Peine
Qumra Projects
/ Short Experimental or Essay / Tunisia, France, Qatar
In Arabic
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Synopsis
'La Nuit a Peine' is conceived as a triptych—on either side of the central stage, the film camera will move and show a courtyard and a garden. This opens a dialogue with other aspects of art history: a certain form of religious painting with the triptych, but also theatre with the reference to the courtyard and garden (côté cour et côté jardin). Once the set is in place, seemingly banal and everyday scenes will be played and replayed, a way of searching for the film. By bringing theatre into cinema, I want to highlight the collective work in progress.
The idea of recreating a fragment of this camp, a set, allows me to evoke the question of the false appearance that calls for reality in a purer and more direct way. By thwarting the limits of space and time, the set reveals the unsuspected depths of our imagination, inviting us to explore unknown worlds and transcend our daily reality. The set is also a way of speaking about the unreality of what happened as if it were ultimately just fiction, an invented story. I imagine this set as a theatre stage, where reality and imagination meet to give birth to new representations, far away from the established ones.