Before we Go

 

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Jorge León – Belgien 2014 – 82 Min.

Sc: Jorge León – DOP: Rémon Fromont – S: Quentin Jacques – E: Marie-Hélène Mora – P: Dérives

With Simone Aughterlony, Meg Stuart, Benoît Lachambre

DCP – English / French

German Premiere

 

A woman and two men share a weighty piece of knowledge: their death is imminent. Before immobility becomes inevitable, they choose to move again, feel again, share again. At La Monnaie opera house in Brussels, backstage or on the sumptuous stage, in a place dedicated to art and to the transcendence of pain, this woman and those men meet musicians, choreographers, dancers, and with them they move, listen, and try to delicately seize the day, however fleeting it might be.

It is a dance of death  only the other way around: indeed, the still-living, assisted and reinforced by art, earn their dignity by facing not death but the terror it entails. Art and our finiteness have rarely been connected in such a finely observed, modest and moving way. – Jean-Pierre Rehm 

Sunday 12/10 11.00 p.m. Theatiner Filmkunst

 

Jorge León was born in 1967. He graduated from the Brussels Institut Natonal Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle (INSAS) and has been working as a photographer and film director. He was also active a dramatist and stage designer for various projects. As a photographer, he worked for Belgian and foreign artists and companies. More recently he has been active primarily as a filmmaker.

Films: Vous êtes servis de sable et de ciment 2003 – Vous êtes ici 2006 – Between Two Chairs 2007 – 10 Min. 2009