Mohamed El Khatib Alain Cavalier
Conversation entre Mohamed El Khatib et Alain Cavalier
© Mohamed El Khatib © Pascal Victor/Artcom Press. ©
© Alain Cavalier et Mohamed El Khatib © Picturetank/Yohanne Lamoulère ©
An original idea by Mohamed El Khatib and Alain Cavalier
Technical Managment, Arnaud Léger
Coproduction La Bâtie – Festival de Genève // In association with Théâtre de la Ville-Paris ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris // First performed on 11th November 2017 at Théâtre National de Bretagne – Centre Européen Théâtral et Chorégraphique (Rennes)
Partnership with France Inter
Mohamed El Khatib and Alain Cavalier : incongruous dialogue between two « documentarisators » of their art.
Film-maker Alain Cavalier and director Mohamed El Khatib, whose fortuitous encounter stems from the erroneous purchase of a camera, will be bearing their all - via the methodological dissection of the dreams that affect and afflict them. This double portrait, from both sides of the Mediterranean, will not end up as a film nor a piece of theatre, but rather the drafting in public of a micro-history of two very different lives which cross each other in strange ways.
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