Jean Dubrel
2021Natpwe (le festin des esprits)
Jean Dubrel, Tiane Doan na Champassak
In Natpwe, the feast of the spirits, co-directors Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel have produced an immersive, seemingly timeless document of an annual Burmese trance ritual that dates back to the eleventh century. Shot in Super 8 and 16mm in sooty black and white, the film conveys the astonishing sense of liberation of tens of thousands of bodies and minds — a mass expression of faith, but also a rapturous respite from societal intolerance.
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits
Jharia, une vie en enfer
Jean Dubrel, Tiane Doan na Champassak
Jharia is a mining town in Northeast India. we find it one of the richest countries of the coal deposits. For nearly a century, mining, poorly maintained, are ravaged by an uncontrollable and devastating fire. Propagating from vein to vein, the flames eat away the basement, spring from the earth, envelop the region in thick toxic fumes. For the residents, it was coal that wealth has become a curse.
Jharia, a living hell
