At first we didn’t even have the shadow of a word, nor the shadow of a thought, nor the shadow of a project. We were simply sitting there, in front of a moonlit wall. We opened a bottle of wine and the conversation began. About the journey of shadows from distant regions in Asia to Europe, about nomadism and the impermanence of form, light and darkness. An ephemeral meeting. Two artists talking, talking about their practice and their experiences without worrying about the traces their shadow leaves behind them on the wall...

Fabrizio Montecchi, from Teatro Gioco Vita, and Camille Trouvé, from Les Anges au Plafond, converse for the first time in shadows, on the invitation of the Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes di Charleville-Mézières, twentieth edition. A poetic conference that ignores the distance between the screen and the source; an “illuminated” conversation which imperceptibly transforms into fiction...

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