Here After

A cinematographic adaptation of the performance "Puur", from Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus. Here After tells the story of an isolated community in which a power-mad tyrant commands an infanticide. In the danced scenes we see how the characters relive their memories in the hereafter; as if their emotions and traumas were captured in the memory of their bodies. The film shows terror and its destroying effect on a community and questions existential themes such as life/death, culpability/penance, identity/memory, regret/negation and power/freedom.

Keywords

  • Belgium
  • Festival de Cannes
  • Festival de Cannes - Tax Shelter
  • Cinema flamand
  • dance

Actors

  • Won-Myeong Won
  • Krijn Hermans
  • Tone Brulin
  • Linda Kapetanea
  • Elena Fokina
  • Milan Herich
  • Helder Seabra
  • Laura Arís
  • Thi-Mai Nguyen
  • Robert M. Hayden
  • Jorge Jauregui Allue
  • Manuel Ronda
  • Germán Jauregui Allue

Director

  • Wim Vandekeybus

Documentary


1h 4min


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France
Belgium
2007
A cinematographic adaptation of the performance "Puur", from Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus.

A cinematographic adaptation of the performance "Puur", from Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus.


Here After tells the story of an isolated community in which a power-mad tyrant commands an infanticide. In the danced scenes we see how the characters relive their memories in the hereafter; as if their emotions and traumas were captured in the memory of their bodies.

The film shows terror and its destroying effect on a community and questions existential themes such as life/death, culpability/penance, identity/memory, regret/negation and power/freedom.

Cast & Crew