The Forgotten//L’Oublié(e)

Here begins a kind of tale: a woman is at the bedside of an unconscious man. The years go by. One day, she decides to go looking for him. Her perilous quest then becomes an initiatory course, in which reality is gradually contaminated by the fantastic. This ambitious tale plunges us into a dreamlike and phantasmagorical universe in which questions of mourning, of surpassing oneself, of filial ties or crossed destinies are evoked. In this particularly physical theatre of images, the fundamentals of the universe developed since then by Raphaëlle Boitel are established: a hybrid vocabulary imbued with circus material, inscribed in an organic visual, sensory and cinematographic writing, deployed on the ground and in the air. WithThe Forgotten, time becomes blurred, the imaginary emerges…emotions in motion in an exploration of the intimate…