Memory and roots, Personal diary, Family portrait

D'arbre et de charbon
About trees and coal

Bénédicte Liénard, Belgium, 2012, Beta-Digital, Format diffusion : 1.37 (35 mm), 58

Generation after generation, my family took care of a small grove planted above an ancient closed down coalmine pit in the Borinage region.
Learning my father is incurably ill, in order to better understand what my connections are to the story of his life, I go looking for images. Multiplying media, translating impressions, I return freely to the family’s origins.
I travel through intimate memories that link me and sometimes lead me away from those trees strongly rooted in coal ground.

Directed by: Bénédicte Liénard
Screenplay: Bénédicte Liènard
Photography: Antoine Marie Meert, Stéphane Boissier, Nicolas Rincon Gille, Mary Jiménez
Image editing: Mary Jimenez
Languages: FR
Subtitles: EN
Available formats: Digital, DVD
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D'arbre et de charbon
About trees and coal