
Walking along the Champs-Elysées with a tortoise so as to have a better look at the world, but it is difficult to drink tea on an ice floe when everyone is drunk
"After all, we are all dreamers by nature, brothers under the sign of the trowel, born master builders" (B. Schulz)
'Wandelen op de Champs- Elysées (...) als iedereen dronken is' begins here and now. It takes a look at man as he is, was and probably always will be: fearful, alone and as sinful as the deepest sea is deep. It is in short a story about us and, we suspect, also about you.
We follow four mythical figures (the Crane Man, The Mental Concept Bakkie, the Blind Flying Woman and The Blue Artist) who have gradually become painfully aware of what is described above… And it makes them afraid. It terrifies them. Literally. The fear of dying grips them by the throat. For is it not written somewhere that all the evil deeds committed here on earth are punished in equal measure ‘below’.
Each of the four begins a personal struggle. They look for a way of avoiding death, or rather, of surviving life.
'Wandelen op de Champs-Elysées...’ is a visual production based loosely on Dante Alighieri’s ‘pine Comedy’ (the book in which the writer describes his journey to the middle of hell)
by and with
- Matteo Simoni
- Thomas Verstraeten
- Joé Agemans
- Marie Vinck
- Stef Aerts
- Bart Hollanders
extras
- Chris Decrae
- Mark Calus
- Peter Apers
- Ravelin Cielen
set
- Matthijs Kuyer
- Thomas Verstraeten
- Joé Agemans
- Matteo Simoni
- Marie Vinck
- Stef Aerts
- Bart Hollanders
- Pieter Beckers
- Tile Vos
- Rob Buelens
- Pieter-Jan Maesen
- Dennis Raemaekers
- Maarten Wagemans
- Maurits Meire/Merx
- Julian Valera
- Mathieu Michiels
- Maarten Mertens
- Jo Verstraeten
- Joris Janssens
- Gio Van Antigone
- Jeroen Keygnaert
sound design
- Kurt Verleure
music
- Tijs Delbeke
- Liesa Van der Aa
- Stijn Cole
costume design
- Judith Van Herck
production management
- Celine van der Poel
- Katleen Gils
- Kristin Van Der Voort
choreography
- Iris Bouche
assistance costume design
- Jelle Spruyt
- Joke Raes
- Linse Van Gool
- Chris Snik
- Kalina Malehunova
photography
- Sofie Silbermann
light consultant
- Harry Cole
technical direction, concept
- Joé Agemans
pilot
- Philippe Schellekens
- Bert Depuydt
- Vliegclub Amsterdam
poster image
- Xavier Zimbardo
design poster
- Afreux
production
- FC Bergman
coproduction
- Monty