All dragons

A young woman enters the stage, and on a table are photos from her childhood. One, seemingly banal, catches her eye: two little girls sitting on their grandfather's lap. Suddenly, she is joined by Someone. Together, they rediscover the pictures and the objects that keep appearing. All dragons is an investigation, a documentary self-fiction that attempts to pick up the pieces of an altered memory, following traumatic amnesia. Camille Berthelot's intimate battle to recover scattered and painful memories, locked away in a box for too long: " The dragon is Jacques. The dragon is what happened to me. The dragon is me. I'm 5 years old and I can't cope with this story on my own. The time has come for me to set it free, by asking the spectator this question: How can we put ourselves back together? How do we understand ourselves? How do we fight our own dragons? The playwright and director writes about the taboo and social denial still surrounding incest experienced by those who are called "children". children of silence ". Video serves as a dramaturgical tool of the unconscious. Projections of documents gradually give way to visions, memories and traumatic memories whose perception is altered, disturbed and fragmented. Then comes the time of reconstruction as a woman. By shaping her experience in this way, it becomes universal.

After graduating from the Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2014 with a degree in Humanities and Performing Arts, the Rémoise native Camille Berthelot joins the IX conservatorye arrondissement de Paris, then the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris in 2016, where she worked with Thierry THieû Niang, Olivier Augrond, Nadia Vadori, Lorraine de Sagazan, Isabelle Lafon and Marc Ernotte. In 2021, she continued her training in documentary filmmaking and joined the Master Documentaire : Écriture du Monde Contemporain at Paris VII, where she made her first films. At the end of 2021, she and Alma Livert set up their company in the Grand-Est region of France: Les Habitantes. Documentary or testimonial theater, their creations are written by around the intimate, proposing hybrid forms that play with the boundary with the real. Camille Berthelot writes and directs. She totally breaks with the dramatic form as we understand it, because what matters is no longer the action but the story, however epic or intimate, of one person.

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