Lasse Vonck is as a young artist proclaimed and acclaimed by press and public as a prodigy. Thirty years later, that is no longer the case. That people have forgotten him over the years, he finds a bearable fate, but he is lost; he is looking for a goal, meaning.
On a spring day without shine, Lasse is so alienated from himself upon waking that he no longer knows well who he is. He can even no longer speak.
Confession is inspired by the timeless and weatherless story De Gedaanteverwisseling van Franz Kafka. It sketches a portrait of man as silent protest.
\"I really have nothing with cars
but I had a strange dream
kept me busy for a long time
it is about a
-how do you say that-
a family car
I am nine years old
and my mother and I look out the window
We see a strongly muscular man in a tank top
who one by one
all four tires
of the white Citroën BX
of my father dismantles
afterwards he brings out a sledgehammer
and smashes all windows into smithereens
tears happily all seats
-front and back-
into rags
rips the car radio out
breaks the side mirrors off
pulls the steering wheel out
and my mother looks at it
and she does nothing
and I run outside
the man in his tank top is -poof- dissolved
and I want to shout
I want to scream
but it does not work for me
it does not work for me again
standing up for myself
why is that so difficult
and I look at what remains of the Citroën
I see the spot where I always sat
when we left on vacation
In the middle of the back seat
so a bit to the front
between my father and my mother in
elbows on the side of their chairs
and I may choose the cassette to put in the car radio
‘dear little piranha
tear me apart’ \"
In collaboration with the Kultureel Komitee.