La Nuit a Peine
Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage
Wiame Haddad / Short Experimental or Essay / Tunisia, France, Qatar / 30 min / Original Language: Arabic / Interests: History, War
Synopsis
‘La Nuit a Peine’ is conceived as a triptych—on either side of the central stage, the film camera will move and show a courtyard and a garden. This opens a dialogue with other aspects of art history: a certain form of religious painting with the triptych, but also theatre with the reference to the courtyard and garden (côté cour et côté jardin). Once the set is in place, seemingly banal and everyday scenes will be played and replayed, a way of searching for the film. By bringing theatre into cinema, I want to highlight the collective work in progress.
The idea of recreating a fragment of this camp, a set, allows me to evoke the question of the false appearance that calls for reality in a purer and more direct way. By thwarting the limits of space and time, the set reveals the unsuspected depths of our imagination, inviting us to explore unknown worlds and transcend our daily reality. The set is also a way of speaking about the unreality of what happened as if it were ultimately just fiction, an invented story. I imagine this set as a theatre stage, where reality and imagination meet to give birth to new representations, far away from the established ones.
Credits
- Director
- Wiame Haddad
- Screenwriter
- Wiame Haddad
- Producer
- Randa Maroufi
- Production Company
- Shatamata Production (France), Exit Productions (Tunisia)
About the Director
Wiame Haddad is a Tunisian, Moroccan, and French artist and filmmaker. She is a graduate of the ESAD in Valenciennes and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre in Brussels. Her artistic work encompasses a photographic and cinematographic study, forming both ethical and formal research. This research is driven by a quest for the unseen. Haddad focuses on bodies and places forgotten by history, with her work centring on this excavation of the invisible. She develops artistic, photographic, and cinematographic projects that embody the stakes of body tension as a signifier of the political. She has participated in various film festivals, including Cinéma du Réel - Paris (special mention of the jury), TIFF - Canada (2022), Open City Documentary London - UK (2022), Tout Court - Nuove Voci del Cineteca di Bologna - Italy (2023), Cosmic Rays Film Festival - USA (2023), Mur Murs Films Festival - USA (2023), Oumsiyat Short Film Nights with Ettijahat, Beirut - Lebanon (2022), and DocuMed Film Festival - Tunisia (2023), among others.