Bruno Vanden Broecke - Confession

Lasse Vonck was proclaimed a child prodigy and acclaimed by press and public as a young artist. Thirty years later, that is no longer the case. That people have forgotten him over the years, he finds a bearable fate; he is lost; he is looking for a purpose, meaning. On a spring day without luster, Lasse is so alienated from himself upon waking that he no longer really knows who he is. He can't even speak anymore. * Confession is inspired by the timeless and peerless story De Gedaanteverwisseling van Franz Kafka. It sketches a portrait of the human as a silent protest. I really have nothing to do with cars but I had a strange dream it kept me busy for a long time it's about a -how do you say that- a family car I am nine years old and my mother and I are looking out the window We see a strongly muscled man in a tank top who one by one dismantles all four tires of the white Citroën BX of my father then he takes out a sledgehammer and smashes all the windows to smithereens happily tears all the seats -front and back- to shreds rips out the car radio breaks off the side mirrors pulls out the steering wheel and my mother watches it and she does nothing and I run outside the man in his tank top has -poof- dissolved and I want to shout I want to scream but I can't I can't do it again stand 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 for vacation In the middle of the back seat a little bit to the front between my father and my mother elbows on the side of their chairs and I get to choose the cassette to put in the car radio ‘dear little piranha tear me apart’ Text and direction: Raven Ruëll Spel: Bruno Vanden Broecke Techniek: Gert Van Hyfte Foto: Fred Debrock Productie: De Speelman Spreiding: Jimmie Dimmick