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SPECTRESSven Augustijnenprix GNCR / prix <strong>de</strong>s médiathèques / première <strong>international</strong>eCIPatrice Lumumba a joué un rôle décisif dans la libération <strong>du</strong> Congo <strong>du</strong>joug colonial. Peu après, trahi par ses proches et renversé, il est sommairementexécuté au Katanga le 17 janvier 1961. Si certains <strong>de</strong>s auteurs <strong>de</strong>sa mise à mort sont connus, bien <strong>de</strong>s questions <strong>de</strong>meurent. Où cemassacre a-t-il eu lieu exactement ? Qui y assistait ? Pour le compte <strong>de</strong>qui ? Quels en sont les responsables ? Partant <strong>de</strong> ces points obscurs,Sven Augustijnen enquête. Pour le gui<strong>de</strong>r, un personnage insaisissable,le chevalier Jacques Brassinne <strong>de</strong> la Buissière, haut fonctionnaire belge,présent au Congo au moment <strong>de</strong>s faits. Auteur d’une biographie <strong>de</strong>Lumumba, l’homme a consacré <strong>de</strong> nombreuses années à mener <strong>de</strong>srecherches historiques sur cette pério<strong>de</strong>. Le cinéaste l’accompagne à larencontre <strong>de</strong> témoins et <strong>de</strong> protagonistes. Entre vérité <strong>de</strong>s faits, force <strong>de</strong>convictions <strong>de</strong> la parole <strong>de</strong>s uns et <strong>du</strong>plicité possible <strong>de</strong>s autres, entreBelgique et Congo, la caméra, ouvre large le champ. Elle scrute lesdécors, interroge les gestes et les regards, plongeant dans les zonesincertaines <strong>de</strong> la vérité, dévoilant un en <strong>de</strong>çà <strong>du</strong> témoignage. Rythmé par<strong>de</strong>s extraits <strong>de</strong> la Passion <strong>de</strong> Jean-Sébastien Bach, puissantes boufféesélégiaques qui renvoient au martyr Congolais, Spectres invente un mo<strong>de</strong>d’investigation inédit, qui s’autorise à interroger autant l’Histoire, sesacteurs vivants et ses fantômes, que la manière <strong>de</strong> l’écrire en rendant àtous, jusqu’à l’opacité, leur corps et leur terrible nuit. (NF)Patrice Lumumba played a <strong>de</strong>cisive role in the liberation of the Congo from the colonialyoke. Shortly afterwards, he was betrayed by those close to him, overthrown andsummarily executed in Katanga on the January 17, 1961. Even though we know aboutmany of those who orchestrated his <strong>de</strong>ath, there remain many unanswered questions.Where exactly did this massacre take place? Who was present? On whose or<strong>de</strong>rs? Whois to blame?Sven Augustijnen takes these shady questions that haunt Belgium as much as the Congoas the starting point of his enquiries: using facts, their contemporary echoes and what hasbeen brushed over as “historical fact”. His gui<strong>de</strong> is an elusive character of noble birth –Jacques Brassinne <strong>de</strong> la Buissière, who was working in the Congo as a high-ranking civilservant at the time. Author of a biography of Lumumba, this man spent many yearscarrying out research into the history of this period. The film-maker goes with him to meetwitnesses and protagonists. Between factual truth, the strength of conviction in the wordsof some and the possible <strong>du</strong>plicity of others, between Belgium and the Congo, the cameraopens up a wi<strong>de</strong> angle. It scrutinizes the surroundings, observes the gestures and glances,diving into the uncertain layers of truth, revealing the minutiae of the witness accounts.Paced with extracts from Jean-Sebastian Bach’s Passion, powerful elegiac breaths of freshair that recall the Congolese martyr. Spectres invents new form of investigation whichassumes the right to question not just History – both its living players and phantomwitnesses – but also how it is recor<strong>de</strong>d, restoring to all both their bodies and their terriblenight to the point of opacity. (NF)BELGIQUE<strong>2011</strong>CouleurHD102’Version originaleFrançaisSous-titresAnglaisImageSven AugustijnenSonBenoît Bruwier& Jeff LevillainMontageMathieu Haessler &Sven AugustijnenPro<strong>du</strong>ctionet distributionAuguste OrtsFilmographieUNE FEMMEENTREPRENANTE,2004FRANÇOIS, 2003MISSION MONT DESARTS, 2002LE GUIDEDU PARC, 2001JOHAN, 2001L’ÉCOLE DESPICKPOCKETS, 2000IETS OP BACH,1998063

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