A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
 

“It's not what we have lived, it's what we have left to live. And I will be able to visualise this moment forever. I will be able to love you tomorrow forever.”
 

Drawing inspiration from 300 interviews taken in 2020 and 2021 during lockdown, Guillaume Poix’s Sacred (Un Sacre) weaves together small stories of individuals in a chronicle of loss that culminates in the great history of humankind. A history that now seems to be unfolding in ways we cannot keep up with. A history that is marked by other significant deaths: of dignity, rights, empathy, and justice.

“It is difficult for things to end. It would be nice, so nice if they never ended.” Eleven people in a strange encounter at a moment in time somewhere in the world>

“I wanted to have a life, not be a story.” Stories of the deaths of people who were passionately loved, of people who sacrificed themselves for others, of people who travelled to a far-off country for a better future, of people who were mourned and people who no one missed. Stories apparently unrelated but united by the core that burns constantly throughout human history: our merciless mortality. “Pain takes time. Pain endures within us.” In an era when death goes unnoticed – if it is not met with outright indifference, when loss must be experienced quickly and pain is not permitted because it tarnishes the false happiness of a life that is constantly on display, Guillaume Poix reminds us that the end of life is a natural part of it.

Sacred, directed by Hristos Theodoridis, will follow the logic of the author’s interview-based approach, adding three new stories inspired by the situation in Greece in recent years, written by the director’s regular collaborator, Isabella Konstantinidou. With live on-stage music and movement by Xenia Themeli filling or magnifying the gaps left by speech, this will be a parade of humanness, a celebration of life.

Because all you can do in the world we have made is keep on existing. Existence as revolution, then.