Chloé Bourgès
France | 2017 | 24 min
World premiere
Language : Spanish
Subtitles : English, French
Although Jack returns to Encarnación, the village in Paraguay where we imagine he spent his childhood, it is first and foremost the triggering event for a stage. A voyage like a passage. In his mother’s small flat, he is the only man among women. In the streets of his town, he is a stranger in a world that should be familiar to him. In the forest, he is alone in the face of the forces of nature. Both fully present here and yet completely elsewhere, he looks for the tangible elements of a reality that is escaping him: he tries to find the place he was when he learnt of the death of his grandmother, although he was on another continent… Lost in this interlude which extracts him from his daily life, he looks for an anchor point that will definitively enable him to understand something and finally accept the death of his grandmother. The incarnation of this state is amply revealed here by this play between reality and fiction. Is Encarnación really tracing the reality of Jack’s life or is it actually a mise en scène? It hardly matters! Life and death may be so close.
Madeline Robert
