2023 LaScam: Nuit de la radio LaScam: Nuit de la radio
Nuit de la radio 2023 – The Dead Don’t Hear Things That Way
Friday, August 25, 2023, 9 pm at Saint-Laurent-sous-Coiron
Practical information
Reservation: warning, seats are limited, tickets can be obtained at the festival public reception area.
A quota of seats will be available each day at public reception, from the opening of ticket sales at Lussas.
Access
Free shuttle buses: departure Place de l’église at Lussas – 7:35, 7:50, 8:05, 8:20 pm.
(return from Saint-Laurent-sous-Coiron > Lussas : 11 and 11:30 pm)
It is preferable to use the free shuttle bus for access to Saint-Laurent sous Coiron or car sharing, only.
Since 2001, the authors of the audio works commission at the LaScam propose, with the “Nuit de la radio”, a unique experience of collective listening, to (re)discover mythical excerpts from radio history, drawn from the INA collections.
A programme, on a new theme every year, is discovered wearing headphones, under the stars all along the year. The choice of themes permits the producers to cull freely from radio’s long history and to invent a singular narrative freed from chronological constraints.
Inaugurated in Paris for a first hearing, the “Nuit de la radio” is also scheduled in the programme of the prestigious festivals such as the États généraux du film documentaire at Lussas, and Longueurs d'ondes – the festival of radio and listening at Brest.
Since its creation, the “Nuit de la radio” has notably been compiled on: the Shores of Elsewhere (2009), the Spirit of Places (2014), censorship (The Ears have Walls, 2010), Africa (2003), Pleasures (2013), Voices on the Airwaves (2005), Black (2008), Things will be better tomorrow! (2012), Shockwaves (2015), Farewell to Tears (2016), Liberties (2017), Dusk is Falling, Night is Rising (2018), Remaking the World (2019) and Being Twenty (2020-2021), Spatial Panoptics (2022)...
This year’s programme, The Dead Don’t Hear Things That Way, was written and produced by Judith Bordas.
THE DEAD DON’T HEAR THINGS THAT WAY
(Programme length: 1h)
How do you make a dead person? Does a succession of words or gestures exist that would allow the dead to stay a while among us? What about those about whom we know nothing, not even their name, their history? And if we could choose in advance our own eulogy, what would it be?
When my neighbour died, everything went very quickly.
One afternoon, two hours of ceremony and the subject was dropped.
Two hours.
A short time to talk about someone.
Two hours everything included, the arrival of the hearse, people gathering and whispering, the sharing of hugs and handkerchiefs.
Two hours from the moment when the mourners sense their weight bear on the earth, feel a slight cold shiver, to the moment when as the evening opens an invitation is extended to have a drink, to profit from the life that we have.
Ten months later, I was still angrily wondering if we couldn’t have done something better.
This exploration through the radio archives at INA is an inquiry into our way of accompanying the dead, of allowing them to become – to paraphrase the philosopher Vinciane Despret – “good” dead, those who are happy in their death.
Judith Bordas
Discover three sound bites from the programme and the detailed programme on LaScam website : https://www.scam.fr/actualites-ressources/nuit-de-la-radio-2023-les-morts-ne-lentendent-pas-de-cette-oreille/
An event proposed by LaScam in partnership with INA.
Judith Bordas : sound creator, dramaturge, artist and member of LaScam sound works commission
With the assistance of:
Amélie Briand-Le Jeune, INA archivist
Martin Delafosse, editor/audio mixer
Thanks to: Antoine Chao, Hélène Chaudeau, Charlotte Bienaimé, Jean-Marie Clairambault and all the members of the Scam sound commission
Design: Catherine Zask
Animation: Benoît Wimart