Of Fire and Darkness
Often in life's experiences, we only remember what is strong and significant over the course of meetings, discoveries and disappointments. "111 rue de la poste": it was my address in Belgium which bec…
Of Fire and Darkness
Often in life's experiences, we only remember what is strong and significant over the course of meetings, discoveries and disappointments. "111 rue de la poste": it was my address in Belgium which became the title of this film. This is a trace of what I experienced in Brussels during my years of study at L'Insas. A reflection on my life, and that of the other women with whom I shared the same roof. From a very personal experience, I tried to create links and go to each other to communicate, meet and share. In the urge to capture fleeting moments, I took the camera to film. In this experience, I tried to collect my thoughts, to translate my feelings and to tell the adventure of this film which is inseparable from my life in Belgium. I made this film with the others and I, in turn, want to share this experience, to extend the meetings. —Sarra Abidi A women's shelter at ''111 rue de la Poste'', in the heart of Brussels, This is where Sarra Abidi lived during her three years of study at INSAS. It is this place that she films over the years and the questions of her inhabitants. From these bribes of life scattered in a heap of hours of rushes is born a film, tender and melancholy meditation on loneliness, solidarity, autonomy, happiness, dreams and utopias. The film takes place behind closed doors in the rooms and the corridors. The personal experience is filmed from the inside, right down to the most fragile and intimate moments of the relation to oneself and to the other. Women who are both fragile and strong, aware of the urgency of feeling that they exist. This film is a testimony, a slice of life. —brahamdali
Of Fire and Darkness
Documentary
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Often in life's experiences, we only remember what is strong and significant over the course of meetings, discoveries and disappointments. "111 rue de la poste": it was my address in Belgium which became the title of this film. This is a trace of what I experienced in Brussels during my years of study at L'Insas.
A reflection on my life, and that of the other women with whom I shared the same roof. From a very personal experience, I tried to create links and go to each other to communicate, meet and share. In the urge to capture fleeting moments, I took the camera to film.
In this experience, I tried to collect my thoughts, to translate my feelings and to tell the adventure of this film which is inseparable from my life in Belgium. I made this film with the others and I, in turn, want to share this experience, to extend the meetings. —Sarra Abidi A women's shelter at ''111 rue de la Poste'', in the heart of Brussels, This is where Sarra Abidi lived during her three years of study at INSAS.
It is this place that she films over the years and the questions of her inhabitants. From these bribes of life scattered in a heap of hours of rushes is born a film, tender and melancholy meditation on loneliness, solidarity, autonomy, happiness, dreams and utopias. The film takes place behind closed doors in the rooms and the corridors.
The personal experience is filmed from the inside, right down to the most fragile and intimate moments of the relation to oneself and to the other. Women who are both fragile and strong, aware of the urgency of feeling that they exist. This film is a testimony, a slice of life.
—brahamdali.