Blue Key Identity

Refugees are literally stuck somewhere between their country of origin and the country they arrive in. The director Ernst Maréchal wants to tell the story of mothers and sons who have become separated. He has travelled to see the mothers in their native countries, in this Syria and the Congo. Blue Key Identity is a film dialogue between here and there. To achieve this Maréchal uses blue key, a film technique in which you film something against a blue background and then make this background transparent so that you can put your subject in front of a new background. In this way Blue Key Identity creates an illusion where refugees can be seen in both their original and their present surroundings. It is a ‘glocal’ show which seeks points where collective or shared identity can be experienced.

Meanwhile, it’s 2012 and actuality catched up on the performance. The fiftieth independence of Congo with the recent reelection of President Kabila has been long forgotten. For Bhelly Bompalonga the Belgian position on these fraudulent reelection can be less hypocritical. Meanwhile in Syria, the Arab Awakening occured which evolved into a propaganda that resulted to thousands of death. Daif Preshini, a Syrian Christian, is concerned that the revolution in his country will affect the rights of the minorities. You will have to come and see how theater catches up in the direction of an elusive reality.