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Enterrer La Robe


Enterrer la Robe (Elbiseyi gömmek) 2023
Written by: Nilüfer Gros and Nejbir Erkol
Turkish, Kurdish and Armenian with French subtitles
Soundscape Zeynep Sarıkartal (sound design), Nejbir Erkol and Nilüfer Gros (text and sound) and AÅŸkın Kırım (trumpet)
Performance Nilüfer Gros
Music counsellor : Virginia Kerovpyan
Costume creator Marion Montel
Written in cross-border online collaboration, "Enterrer la robe" revolves around the "black snake", the road that connects Nejbir Erkol's hometown Nusaybin, located on the northern Syrian border of Turkey, to the local university where Nilüfer Gros worked between 2013 and 2017. Nilüfer and Nejbir tell their testimonies about a female student who died in a traffic accident on the black snake, while their shared experience of the region hit by multiple wars reveals the female ghosts of the Armenian Genocide and the massacres of Kurdish communities.
The black snake cut by the border set by colonial powers reveals the centuries-old situation of women in a thousand and one countries built on the same geography.
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