Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep

Inspired by the eponymous poem, originally written on a paper bag, the experience recounts episodes, terrible or happy, in the life of Margaret, a German Jew confronted with the rise of Nazism, exiled to the US without being able to return to visit her mother's grave. In the heart of a paper set that unfolds and transforms, we go back in time to Germany from 1932, when Hitler came to power, to 1906. From the death of Margaret's mother to Margaret's birth.

The sky becomes less and less crowded as the scenes progress, the lighting changes, the clouds dissipate. We go from a stormy day to a beautiful, dreamy night. The buildings become more colourful and sweep away the oppression of the beginning. To the sound the narrator recites the poem, which speaks of mourning and questions our perception of sensory space. The city is deserted but the sound atmosphere breathes life into it. Margaret and her mother are the only characters in the image, but although invisible, the inhabitants are all the more palpable. In each scene, white particles invite the user to activate elements of the decor to move the story forward.