The Radical No

Territoires cinématographiques is a space for dialogue between live performance and cinema, devised in conjunction with Avignon's Utopia cinemas. It's a daily programme of film screenings after which the public can meet and talk with directors, choreographers, filmmakers, researchers and critics invited to the Festival d'Avignon. It's a space designed to explore the intimate relationships that these speakers maintain between disciplines and the world. It's a space where we can take a closer look, from the small to the large, at the themes that are brought to life on stage, on screen and under the plane trees of the Café des idées.

Antigone in the Amazon - The making-of

By Fernando Nogari // Brazil - Belgium // 2023 // 30 minutes // with English and French subtitles

Screening followed by ad discussion with Milo Rau and the cast and crew of Antigone in the Amazon
Hosted by Hugues Le Tanneur of Transfuge magazine

The film follows the creation of Milo Rau's show Antigone in the Amazon in Brazil, from the rehearsals for the project in 2020 to the re-enactment of the largest massacre by the military police against the Landless Movement at the scene of the crime.

For his production "Antigone in the Amazon", director Milo Rau worked for years with the Brazilian landless movement MST. The largest movement of landless farmers on the planet stands for a radically new form of ecological agriculture - a life in harmony with nature. "We cultivate the land and the land cultivates us," is the motto of the revolutionary movement that has settled millions of people on occupied land.

The collaboration of Milo Rau and the MST has resulted in the play "Antigone in the Amazon", a documentary film and a campaign against industrial agriculture. The event "Le Non Radical" will show pictures from the rehearsals of Rau's newest play, and, for the first time, the video clip of the campaign. Afterwards, Milo Rau and his team will discuss art and resistance with representatives of the MST and Les Soulèvements de la Terre (SDLT), which was recently dissolved by the French government.