Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) 2022 is pleased to present
Orestes in Mosul – The making of
by Daniel Demoustier and Milo Rau
Country: Belgium | Running Time: 73 |Language: English | Year Of Inception: 2020
About Orestes in Mosul – The making off
Orestes in Mosulmay well be one of Milo Rau’s most significant and internationally acclaimed works. The cameraman and documentary maker Daniel Demoustier, who specialises in conflict zones, followed the director and his team throughout rehearsals in Iraq, filming a documentary about the process. Behind the scenes of a new theatre classic“Can a Greek tragedy help heal a scarredcity?” TheNew York Timesasked in response to the rehearsals for Orestes in Mosul. It is one of the questions under fierce debate in the city of Mosul. Certain sensitive scenes in the play spark off heated arguments between the Iraqi actors, the European cast and Milo Rau himself.Daniel Demoustier interviewed actors and incorporated a few local incidents.Likewatching a news report and a classical epicMilo Rau, the artistic director of NTGent, is a theatre-makerout to change the world. That is why he really didtake his actors to one of the world’s flashpoints. He went to Iraq for Orestes in Mosul to explore how a society survives decades of violence. His frame of reference is theOresteia, in which Athenabreaks the vicious circle of revenge with justice.How can the chain of violence that entanglesthe different sides in the Syrian-Iraqi civil war and their Western allies be brought to an end? During the creation process, Rau and his crew did research in Mosul, where ISISwas establishing a caliphate. The tragedy was staged by a mixed ensemble of European and Iraqi actors. It is likewatching a news report and a classical epic at the same time.
About Daniel Demoustier and Milo Rau
About Daniel Demoustier: After studying political and social sciences, Daniel Demoustier went to work in the Audio-Visual Department at the KU Leuven. He started out as a soundman with Panorama (BRT) and Telefacts(VTM), taking his first steps in war reporting in Baghdad, Bosnia, Kosovo and Lebanon. He soon moved on to work as a cameraman for the BBC and the British Independent Television News (ITN). In March 2003, Daniel was caught upin an armed conflict in Iraq during his work, in which he lost three colleagues enroute to Basra. He was the only survivor. Daniel Demoustier has covered almost all the conflicts and disasters around the world over the last 20 years. The most important were the wars in Rwanda, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza, Lebanon, Liberia, Haiti, Pakistan and most recently the Arab Spring in Egypt, Libya and Syria and the war in Mali.
A film by DANIEL DEMOUSTIER | Based on a play by MILO RAU | With SUSANA ABDULMAJID, BERT LUPPES, MARIJKE PINOY, ELSIE DE BRAUW, RISTO KÜBAR, JOHAN LEYSEN, SAIF AL-TAEE, MOHAMED SAALIM, SULEIK SALIM AL-KHABBAZ, MILO RAU, KHALID RAWI, STEFAN BLÄSKE and others | Camera DANIEL DEMOUSTIER, MORITZ VON DUNGERN | Montage DANIEL DEMOUSTIER | Colour grading JORIS VERTENTEN | Sound AD COMINOTTO | Assistant to the director ZOE DEMOUSTIER | Producer NTGENT | Co-producer HET NEDERLANDS THEATER FESTIVAL
About The Festival
The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. The 7th annual festival will focus on work for the screen created by theatre artists during the Time of Corona. The festival will be held digitally from March 1st – 15th 2022.
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