FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE 9EME COLLECTIF DES SANS-PAPIERS
FOR THE IMMEDIATE LIBERATION OF LASSANA C. AND NIAME D.,
FOR THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE BILL ON IMMIGRATION (CESEDA), AND OF THE CIRCULAR OF FEBRUARY 21, 2006, FOR THE IMMEDIATE HALT OF THE RAIDS,

AND PEOPLE SAYS NO PRODUCTION
Presents
CONTRE-FEUX (A visual communiqué 5)
Realised by Lars Ivy GOGEEN (S1G)

Lassana C., Niame D., are currently in a detention center. What is their fault ? To be foreigners.

The video shows a slightly edited recording of the conversation between the theorist Irit Rogoff and the artist Kutlug Ataman.

The tightening of immigration laws in France created in 1996 the movement of the "sans-papiers". With spectacular actions and a startling series of church occupations they called attention to the precarious situation of illegalized migrants: "Des papiers pour tous!" Papers for all was the slogan of a movement that spread rapidly all across europe.

The film tries to review the situation three years after the brutal eviction of the first collective of "sans papiers" from the church St. Bernard in the north of Paris in summer 1996.

The film tries to show how the new law project about immigration, that has been presented Thursday 9 February 2006 by the French minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, is a war machine against the foreigners. A machine that DESTROY existence (Family, health, solidarity…), and a machine that PRODUCE people without papers, slaves of the shadow.

The film tries to show how the new law project about immigration, that has been presented Thursday 9 February 2006 by the French minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, is a war machine against the foreigners. A machine that DESTROY existence (Family, health, solidarity…), and a machine that PRODUCE people without papers, slaves of the shadow.

International Festival “The Theatre” takes as a series of departure points for the realization of the project – to develop and build a full-scale theatre on the basis of a budget conventionally issued for a theatre/dance performance - during Steirischer Herbst 2007 a number of seminars. These seminars are to be held on a quarterly basis in different cities in Europe, inviting old and new guest for discussions and processes. At each seminar a public session will be held where the invited guests give presentations of their own work, practically and theoretically.

International Festival “The Theatre” takes as a series of departure points for the realization of the project – to develop and build a full-scale theatre on the basis of a budget conventionally issued for a theatre/dance performance - during Steirischer Herbst 2007 a number of seminars. These seminars are to be held on a quarterly basis in different cities in Europe, inviting old and new guest for discussions and processes. At each seminar a public session will be held where the invited guests give presentations of their own work, practically and theoretically.

International Festival “The Theatre” takes as a series of departure points for the realization of the project – to develop and build a full-scale theatre on the basis of a budget conventionally issued for a theatre/dance performance - during Steirischer Herbst 2007 a number of seminars. These seminars are to be held on a quarterly basis in different cities in Europe, inviting old and new guest for discussions and processes. At each seminar a public session will be held where the invited guests give presentations of their own work, practically and theoretically.

International Festival “The Theatre” takes as a series of departure points for the realization of the project – to develop and build a full-scale theatre on the basis of a budget conventionally issued for a theatre/dance performance - during Steirischer Herbst 2007 a number of seminars. These seminars are to be held on a quarterly basis in different cities in Europe, inviting old and new guest for discussions and processes. At each seminar a public session will be held where the invited guests give presentations of their own work, practically and theoretically.

International Festival “The Theatre” takes as a series of departure points for the realization of the project – to develop and build a full-scale theatre on the basis of a budget conventionally issued for a theatre/dance performance - during Steirischer Herbst 2007 a number of seminars. These seminars are to be held on a quarterly basis in different cities in Europe, inviting old and new guest for discussions and processes. At each seminar a public session will be held where the invited guests give presentations of their own work, practically and theoretically.