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How far

How far moves between several languages, several countries, and works on the superimposition of landscapes and eras.

Suzanne is driving along the A3 motorway in an old Peugeot estate car, stopping to check the tyre pressure. The station is deserted, closed for demolition. A man appears, guarding the premises. Images emerge. She returns, drives on, returns. Amadi isn't always a guard in the Paris suburbs; he's a young Nigerian film-maker who has come to explore the Foccart archives for his documentary on Biafra. Suzanne, too, grew up in Nigeria. Together, they search for and invent a protocol for visiting each other's past. They play. Landscapes are superimposed, temporalities circulate along the strange puddle of diesel that stretches over the station. A community of expatriates, suspended in the colonial dream, emerges in transparency. He is also Peter, the young Nigerian driver who has cobbled together a friendship and a language with Suzanne as a child on the road. Somewhere between narrative and dialogue, the text follows a musical and fragmentary logic, the circulations of sensations and presences, and the intertwined trajectories of a woman and a car.

The text How far have been awarded by the festival Convergence Plateau at the 104 à Paris.

Reading on the 27th September 2023 at the MC93 Bobigny (FR)

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©Christophe Raynaud de Lage

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