L’Escale (Stopover)

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(BALi, KulturBahnhof Kassel)

The view from the window falls on landscapes that become smaller and smaller, cloud covers, rising and setting suns. Images many of us will have made themselves before from the window seat of an airplane: the tourist's gaze. However, voices from the off tell of something egregious. While traveling to a festival where they show their film, the two filmmakers from the Republic of Kongo have to change over in Angola. At passport control they are accused of having counterfeit papers, they end up in a nightmarish Kafkaesque detention from which it seems almost impossible to contact the outside world. With an impossible image, the work of Collectif Faire-Part resolves the paradox of telling a documentary story about an aspect of the contemporary border regime that is stubbornly hidden from the public gaze.

  • Duration: 14 Min.
  • Countries: Belgium
  • Languages: French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Production year: 2022