VII.Edition 2022

It is a proposal to freeze the position of the dancer and give movement later. Abstraction, paper handling, the synthesis of movement and sound are the essence of the piece.

Au Mur de La Mer is a short dance film that follows the inevitably intertwined rumblings of two humans. Set against the raw landscape of coarse cliffs and green-algae coated boulders on the Atlantic coast of France, the film imagines regret as a frontier borrowed from our own future.

The duo stumbles, soaked and soiled, through fading remnants of Hitler’s terrifying Atlantic Wall in Cap Gris-Nez. They pull and tear at one another, crudely easing the other’s fall and helping each other stand once more.

Featuring the striking and solemn Astrid Sweeney and Jonas Vandekerckhove, Au Mur de La Mer leaves us with one eye rinsed by sea water, the
other eye full of sand.

Raha desires to be a dancer. because of strict hijab law she has  to train secretly. She doesn’t find herself skilled enough, she is  constantly disappointed. She is facing a double life. In her social  life she is forced to hide her body however this body is the  freedom she seeks for dancing. Her roof is the dance stage and  the buildings are her audiences. When the rehearsal room is  taken from her by the government she decides to make a public  place her stage…

80 year old Sanna lives alone with her memories and houseplants. One day Sanna sees an event from her window that makes her reminisce about her friends and notice her own loneliness.