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Like a miniature thriller without words but with clues in the sound, this photographic film leads every watcher in a labyrinth of connexions between family remnants and ambiguous remains of History. “Inventory Before Disappearance” is the partial reconstitution of a film that never was. Its matter is made out of photographs of inherited objects, stored in a workshop and explored in their ephemeral gathering. The objects association is here weaved following an intricate story. The “table of objects”, true proscenium if not only scenery of this still life in movement, links together the portraits and ghost characters of a story, which is the story of the missing part. It is made of intermingled journeys: journey through the remains of the real, journey in the domain of hallucination between light and dust, journey in the realm of generational spectres (and other spectres as well). But these journeys also cross the spectral reality of History: in the family archives lie other remains, those of the colonization of Congo and those of World War II.

Martine Wijckaert, born in Bruges, working in Brussels, author, director, approaching since 2002 the photography, and Jacques André, been born in Brittany, living between Paris and Belgium, film and stage director, playwright and designer of multimedia devices, both formed in INSAS (Inst. Nat. Sup. Performing arts, Brussels), collaborate together since 2012, at first for "Enfer/alcool/traversée", video integrated into "Trilogie de l'Enfer", Martine Wijckaert's play (La Balsamine, Brussels, on 2014, Theater of Liège, on 2015), then for "Inventaire avant disparition", - photographic movie exploring the memory associated with the objects of an inheritance (2016).