ARCHITRUC (LEVERS DE RIDEAU)

“In Robert Pinget’s “Supertrue”, there is a king, his minister Baga, and a sometime cook. The king pretends to be a king, and the minister pretends to be a minister, and many other things as well. The cook doesn’t cook, he makes annoncements, instead.Who are these men, The text doesn’t say. Only that they are not who they pretend to be. Even they don’t really know.I want to film them like soldiers lost in a war. They play, burying cruel reality under a cloack of fantasy. They flirt with death; the death of “subjects”, of missing others , of those who have passed on. But most especially with their own: Each is the mortal reflection of the other.” Gérard Mordillat