HERE AFTER
August 20 | 21:00 - 22:10
Belgium, 2007 | Wim Vandekeybus| 64 min.

Free entrance

Here After is a new step in Wim Vandekeybus’ artistic course. The film is a cinematographic adaptation of the dance/ theatre performance Puur (2005, choreography & direction Wim Vandekeybus). This middle length experimental film is a mixture of fiction and dance, however with a stronger emphasis on the fictional element than in any of Vandekeybus’ former films. Тhe performers dance to the cutting sounds by the Italian composer Fausto Romitelli and the lyric music by David Eugene Edwards (Woven Hand) – images that will evoke intense emotional reactions from the viewer. In the wake of the performance Puur, which was received successfully during the Festival d’Avignon 2005, Here After will be a passionate cinematographic experience showing Wim Vandekeybus’ talent as a filmmaker.
Through flashbacks, Here After tells the story of an isolated community in which a power-mad tyrant commands an infanticide. The characters relive their memories as if their emotions and traumas are captured in the memory of their bodies. The film shows the terror and its destroying effect on a community and questions existential themes such as life and death, culpability and penance, identity and memory, regret and negation and power and freedom.